Pass notes No 3,119: Curse of the ninth symphony

Composers have a tendency to pop off after their night symphonyAge: Born when Beethoven pegged it, so 185.Appearance: Grim reaperish.Meaning? It's dangerous to complete your ninth symphony, because you might soon stop being a composer and start to be a decomposer.That's a schoolboy joke. You try injecting humour into one of these abstract pass notes.Let's get back to the curse. Well, Beethoven completed his ninth symphony in 1824 …The Choral? Well done. But he intended a tenth and left sket...

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