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His bulky letters reveal his love for and dependence on Pierre to whom he confided endless details about his health, exercise regimes and work, explaining how he would measure the time he took to draw by playing Beethoven symphonies on the gramophone.

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But the jazz melodies of Billie Holiday and the lush symphonies of Beethoven were like a visceral experience for me.

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Recently scholars have shown increased boldness in turning posthumous fragments into, for instance, performable tenth symphonies by Schubert and Beethoven and a seventh by Tchaikovsky.

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