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See AllIt was the ultimate gig. A 30-piece orchestra at your beck and call. The run of the palace, and servants to meet your every whim. Dinner each night with the Duke and his wealthy friends, followed b
He’s the one who alienates half the dinner guests at your party, gets roaring drunk, makes a pass at your wife, breaks your $1,000 vase, and leaves with the prettiest girl at his side. That would be
Ludvig von Beethoven was a revolutionary. This was never more evident than in 1806, when his Third Symphony premiered in Vienna. What it did was shatter all the norms of the genteel, highly-refined sy