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0:12.0 | I hope you enjoyed the programs. |
0:14.0 | Hello, Ludwig Van Beethoven is one of the greatest composers. |
0:17.0 | He's often considered the greatest, a defining figure in Western classical music. |
0:22.0 | He was born in born in 1770 and moved to Vienna. |
0:25.0 | The hub of European music in his early 20s. |
0:27.0 | And now he flourished. |
0:29.0 | Yet still in his 20s he noticed he was losing his hearing and had to find a way to keep going to create even greater works rather than give up. |
0:36.0 | His output loomed over the rest of the 19th centuries it does today. |
0:40.0 | In particular he popularized music without words, transcending language. |
0:44.0 | And he changed the way that Ornus' valued music, making it something that could be engaged with. |
0:49.0 | And thought about rather than played in the background and talked over. |
0:53.0 | He admitted to discuss Beethoven and our Laura Tundbridge, professor of music and Henry Fellows in Catherine College University of Oxford. |
1:00.0 | John Deathridge, emeritus King Edward professor of music at King's College London. |
1:04.0 | And Erica Brumman, senior lecturer in music, Cantibra Christius University. |
1:09.0 | So here we go, Beethoven without the music. |
1:12.0 | John Deathridge, what signs are there in born that Beethoven might become a composer? |
1:17.0 | The plenty of signs. He was there from 1770 to 1792, 22 years in a very active musical place. |
1:27.0 | And met a very great number of interesting people, including a composer you've never heard of. |
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