#369 Was Beethoven Cursed? The Mystery of the Ninth Symphony

This Paranormal Life

True Crime, Rory Powers, Improv, Society & Culture, Kit Grier Mulvenna, Paranormal, Comedy

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

It’s said that Beethoven’s death was like a biblical scene — he shook his fist at the heavens and a clap of thunder roared across Vienna as he left this world. His contemporary, Mahler, would become obsessed with his death because of another strange coincidence surrounding it: he died composing his tenth symphony, making Beethoven one of a long line of composers to die after completing their ninth symphony. Mahler would call this the curse of the ninth. Is there some strange supernatural power that limits earthly musicians to nine symphonies like a cat has nine lives? Or have these composers made a deal with the devil? Time for Rory and Kit to put on their powdered wigs and investigate!

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0:00.0	Is there a musical note that could open up a black hole?
0:03.3	What, if anything, is stopping woodpeckers from pecking something else?
0:07.6	Answers to these questions and more on this episode of
0:11.3	This paranormal life.
0:15.0	Hello!
0:17.0	Hey!
0:18.0	And good evening and welcome back to this paranormal life.
0:21.0	This is the weekly comedy podcast where every Tuesday myself, Kit. this
0:25.0	Piron normal life. This is the weekly comedy podcast where every Tuesday myself, Kate Grim Mulvena, this guy sitting across for me, Mr Rory Pars,
0:28.0	get to the bottom of a different case every week
0:30.0	and decide by the end of the episode
0:32.0	whether it's really paranormal or not.
0:34.0	How you doing today Rory?
0:35.2	Why are you dressed like this? Huh?
0:36.8	Why are you dressed? Listen to the podcast, Kit is dressed in a... What is this?
0:42.4	You've got a powdered wig on, a vest and a floaty white shirt.
0:47.0	I don't think that question even necessitates answering, to be quite honest. I mean, you know I always put that shit on I assume I'm
0:55.8	Mr put that shit on I assume it has something to do with today's case hey it's just a
1:00.9	shirt so suddenly I mean is greatas, is it gay to wear a shirt? I mean, it's just a shirt.
1:06.7	No. And a shirt and a vest with some pretty tasteful lining actually. And I will say I think the hair is an improvement on my hair.
1:17.0	It's, you know, if you gave that a little trim, it's doing something for you.
1:21.0	Right. It looks pretty good. You look like an old-timey judge that's
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