When I was a little boy, a lady often came to visit at our house and I remember her because she was a writer of popular songs. When I was an older boy the lady visited us one day while I was digging into a sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven and I remember her because she bustled up to the keyboard and rasped at me: “Do you like Beethoven? I hate him! I studied all of his sonatas in music school, every one of them, and there’s nothing in them. How can you stand him?”
We are celebrating, this year, the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Master of Bonn.
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