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I have a medical practice, and I see a lot of patients but seldom do I get to treat Beethoven posthumously. For me, it's 10% science, 90% emotion.
I am no one special, but he has affected me in a very personal way when everything else is lost and you really think you're alone, which happens to you frequently. You're never really alone if you listen to Beethoven. At least I'm never alone because I always have Ludwig Van.
200 years since the birth of Beethoven, his music still speaks as he expressed it from the heart to the heart. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn in this house, possibly in this room. 100,000 people climb these stairs every year drawn by love of his music. They particularly want to see the room where this extraordinary spirit came into the world. Not wanting to disappoint them, museum staff have labeled this the birth room, but they're guessing. It's a shrine to a composer whose music has inspired pilgrimage and passion across time and now across different cultures. |
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