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Joy - In spite of it all. Beethoven's Ninth. (Even in loss, we make music.) In the spring of 1824, a deaf composer stood before an orchestra in Vienna.He could not hear the outlandish sounds his own mind had created. When the final notes of his Ninth Symphony faded – so goes the story - Ludwig van Beethoven remained facing the orchestra, unaware of...
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