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When musical men get angry

Dec 17, 2020

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Painting of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler. Face reddened by Shaun Usher.

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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