I opened up Twitter yesterday and saw Beethoven trending, which meant he had either died, again, been posthumously cancelled, or was enjoying a very quiet birthday below ground. Thankfully, it was the latter, and so:
Happy 250th Birthday, Ludwig van Beethoven!
Beethoven wrote man…
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