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“A couple of Beethoven's friends said that he was a hypochondriac,” says Meredith, “but then when I was going through this list of symptoms ... of his time in his music, Beethoven appears ...

5 traced a progression “from darkness to light,” he added, while the overture, written for Beethoven’s political prison break opera “Fidelio,” represented the “greatest music about fre ...