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Beethoven
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1770-1827
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[Part 2 of 2]

by Will and Ariel Durant
1975

III. The Heroic Years: 1803-09

The learned musicologists who have been trailed in these hesitant
pages divide Beethoven's productive career into three periods:
1792-1802; 1803-16; 1817-24. In the first he worked tentatively...