Beethoven's Ninth Symphony may not be his greatest. It's not even a favorite of the musicians who play it, and yet we treat it as the pinnacle of Beethoven's musical genius. It tops every popularity ...

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Beethoven might have been a little schizo about his scherzo. One of the innovations the composer brought to his symphonies was sudden changes of mood that were first thought to be overly aggressive, ...