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Vienna State Opera: Beethoven's Fidelio
by C. Michael Bailey
Vienna State Opera Conducted by Karl Böhm, Wilhelm Furtwängler Beethoven's Fidelio Andante 2005
Background.
Harold Schonberg's book Lives of the Great Composers is divided into chapters based on the life and work of a single composer and entitled descriptively. Schonberg's chapter on Ludwig van Beethoven is entitled, Revolutionary from Bonn. This chapter is aptly entitled as Beethoven made it a habit of changing everything in music as he ...
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