Beethoven

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1917 1959 1964 recording 1965 1974 1980 1980s 20th-century music Aachen Aase Nordmo-Loevberg Abu Hassan Academia di Santa Cecilia accompanist Adam African American Agnes Baltsa Agnus Dei Aida Alan Blyth Alban Berg Alberich Alfred Cortot alto American American singers American tour Anna Tomowa-Sintow Anne-Sophie Mutter Anneliese Rothenberger Antiche danze ed arie Suite No. 3 Anton Dermota Antonio Antonio Meneses ARD music competition aria Arnold Schoenberg Arona Arthur Honegger artistry Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Arturo Toscanini Astrid Varnay Athen Conservatory Orchestra audition B minor Mass Bach Bachfest ballet Barbara Hendricks Barbarina baritone Baron Mirko Zeta baroque opera baroque repertoire baroque trumpet concertos Bartók bass-baritone bassoon Bavarian State Orchestra Bayreuth Beaux Arts Trio Beethoven Beethoven's 1st Symphony Beethoven's 250th birthday Beethoven's 2nd Symphony Beethoven's 3rd Symphony Beethoven's 5th Symphony Beethoven's 6th Symphony Beethoven's 8th Symphony Beethoven's 9th Symphony Beethoven's C minor Concerto Beethoven's Ninth Beethoven's Triple Concerto Berlin Berlin Philharmonic Berlin Philharmonie Berlin State Opera Berlioz Bernd Aldenhoff Birgit Nilsson Blondchen Blumenmädchen Böhm Boléro Boris Blacher Boris Godunov Brahms Brandenburg Concerto Britten broadcast Bruckner Brucknerhaus Linz Brünnhilde Bruno Walter Bulgaria C minor mass Canio Capriccio Carl Maria von Weber Carl Orff Carlo Bergonzi Carlos Kleiber Carmen cars cause célèbre Cavalleria rusticana cellists Chopin Christa Ludwig Christel Goltz Christoph Eschenbach Christoph von Dohnanyi Christoph Willibald Gluck Clara Schumann classical music classical trumpet concertos Claudio Arrau Claudio Monteverdi Clemens Holzmeister Clouzot collaboration coloraturas composers concert films concert hall Concertgebouw Orchestra Concerto for Orchestra conducting conductor conductor insights conductor's interpretation Consolations consonance contemporary composers conversations 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Adorno Thomas Brandis Thomas Stewart three ladies Tito Gobbi Toscanini transcription Triple Concerto Tristan und Isolde trumpet player Turiddu twelve-tone work Ulm Un Ballo in Maschera United Nations USA Variations for orchestra Verdi Vienna Vienna Conservatory Vienna Musikverein Vienna Philharmonic Vienna State Opera Vienna Symphony viola violin concerto violinist virtuoso viruosity Vivaldi voice Voice of the Bird Wagner Waldemar Kmentt Walter Gieseking Walter Legge Wanderer main parts Webern West Side Story Wieland Wagner Wilhelm Furtwängler Wilhelm Kempff William Tell Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Schneiderhan Wolfgang Stresemann Wolfgang Wagner Wolfgang Windgassen world tour World War II Wotan Yehudi Menuhin Yo Yo Ma Zerlina Zoltan Kelemen

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