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Why is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony so significant?

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Why is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony so significant?

In our Arts Unravelled series, music professor Laura Tunbridge explains when and why Beethoven wrote his most famous masterpiece, the Symphony No.9.