Beethoven's 250th Birthday: Here's Everything You Need to Know
Beethovenâs 250th Birthday: Hereâs Everything You Need to Know Explore the music, life and times of the composer who changed culture. Credit...Gabriel Alcala Dec. 14, 2020 No composer left a mark on music quite like Ludwig van Beethoven. He took the popular forms of his time â symphony, string quartet, piano sonata, opera â and stretched them to their breaking points. He embodied the then-new ideal of the musician as passionate, politically engaged Romantic hero. In honor of the 250th anniversary of his birth â he was baptized Dec. 17, 1770, and probably born a day or...
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