I've read that it is forbidden in some quarters to play Beethoven and Mozart in Tehran.
Carmina Burana ranks up there with Beethoven's Fifth as a perennial favorite among concert-goers.
And it also has a little Liberace, a little Beethoven, a little Ray Charles.
The Opus 110 Sonata reflects a terrible illness Beethoven endured, and his gratitude at recovering.
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God, the Cleveland Browns, the mysteries of air travel and the glory of Beethoven.
Turning away, he talks rapidly and lightly, praising Beethoven, always Beethoven, complete with opus numbers.
What inspired Ludwig van Beethoven to write the "Ode to Joy" in his Ninth Symphony?
"It was rather like finding unknown pieces by Bach or Mozart or Beethoven, " said Dr Evans.
You could probably get the complete works of Mozart or Beethoven as downloads for that money.
In 1895, he was hauled to a Prospect Park lakeside, joining a bust of Beethoven.
Premio Loco got the better of Beethoven in the battle for third behind Rip Van Winkle.
Ludwig von Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has been co-opted by everyone from dictators to revolutionaries.
The piece, "Capriccio for Carolina, " was in turn inspired by Beethoven's Kreutzer Violin Sonata.
If you play two hours of Beethoven for those audiences, their heads will explode.
There's plenty to evoke in Beethoven's grand and craggy Grosse Fuge, Op. 133.
It tells the story of a wigmaker who tries to design a wig for Beethoven.
The alarm on the phone wakes me up by playing a downloaded Beethoven tune.
For him this meant the giants of the German tradition: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms.
Beethoven was buried deep in the pack as Steinbeck forged an early lead.
Can you identify Beethoven's Sonata No. 9 after hearing a mere three notes?
His last performance at the BBC Proms, two years ago, was an interpretation of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
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Beethoven admired England for its House of Commons, and he followed parliamentary debates reported in German-language newspapers.
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To chase away rats, Nathaniel had two sticks on which he had scrawled the names Beethoven and Brahms.
Chopin has as does Beethoven the capacity to invent themes that remain very strong in the ear of the listener.
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Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller.
And it was considered much more fulfilling, or much more edifying, to tell people about Bach and Beethoven.
And you can mix and blend your instruments in ways that Beethoven and Mozart never could have imagined.
Because, before a Beethoven symphony, Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' or Wagner's ''Tristan and Isolde, '' all human beings are equal.
When the music was first heard in the 1820s, critics balked, blaming Beethoven's deafness for the work's difficult harmonies.
Beethoven establishes the key, presents a main theme and even offers a development section all within the first seven seconds.
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