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Beethoven

Beethoven

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George Grella
Dec 17, 2020
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Today marks Beethoven’s 250th birthday, and that’s a good thing to celebrate. As I wrote earlier this year, the issue is not that Beethoven is too prevalent on the classical scene, but not prevalent enough. Classical music is marginal in the cultural marketplace, and there’s really no practical way to change that. There are the occasional exceptions, li…

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