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Beethoven is more popular than Mozart

Beethoven beats Mozart to the top spot as the most popular Classic FM composer of 2019
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Beethoven, but all the keys on this piano are tuned to middle C

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3-year-old conductor

This 3-year-old kid conducting to Beethoven’s Fifth is the future of classical music

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Beethoven and Elisabeth Röckel

What is the meaning of Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ – and who was Elise?
The ultimate Beethoven quiz

Quiz: How much do you know about Beethoven?

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10 of the greatest composers who broke the law

Beethoven composer letters

Letters of the great composers: 14 moving, funny and inspiring quotations from the documents they left behind

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Famous composers' mothers

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Beethoven Album Reviews

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new releases 30th july

New releases: Irnberger and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play Beethoven and Rachmaninov with Martin Jones
new releases 1st may

New releases: Beethoven with the Royal Northern Sinfonia & Lars Vogt and 'Strauss in St Petersburg'
new releases 10th april

New releases: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Brahms and Beethoven with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Beethoven Guides

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Beethoven in Havana

Someone has turned this Beethoven symphony into an extraordinary Cuban rumba
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Beethoven: Compositions, biography, siblings and more facts