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The Aurora Orchestra performing in Printworks London

Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 fills Printworks in Aurora Orchestra’s thrilling immersive concert
The Stumpff Lock in a laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany.

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McDonald’s restaurant in Wales to play Beethoven to tackle late-night antisocial behaviour

A smaller, but still immense, 5,000 strong choir in Japan sing Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’

Listen to this 10,000-strong Japanese megachoir sing Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’

LeBron James listens to Beethoven before a basketball game

LeBron James reveals he listens to Beethoven to ‘calm down’ before games

Orchestra’s outer space Beethoven performance leaves legendary conductor in tears

Orchestra’s outer space Beethoven performance leaves legendary conductor in tears

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When Daniel Barenboim, Yo-Yo Ma and Anne-Sophie Mutter combined to gift us achingly beautiful Beethoven

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The 15 most famous tunes in classical music

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Prehistoric Planet 2 composers built other-worldly instruments using real dinosaur bones

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Dudamel leaves Paris, four years earlier than his planned contract with the world-renown opera house

Gustavo Dudamel leaves Paris Opera four years early in shock resignation

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Alan Menken: ‘I knew about Lin-Manuel Miranda as a little boy, who was obsessed with The Little Mermaid!’

Alan Menken: ‘I knew about Lin-Manuel Miranda as a little boy, who was obsessed with The Little Mermaid!’

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