Beethoven's 10th? Now there's a thought …

The composer had plans to create 'a new gravitional force' in his 10th symphony. What wonders might he have written?I'm just reading Gerhard von Breuning's Memories of Beethoven (originally published as From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards), there's an account of Beethoven talking to Von Breuning's father, who was a close friend of the composer, about pieces he was planning to write near the end of his life. Gerhard was a child at the time, but he remembers Beethoven and his father Stepha...

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