It's difficult to imagine that the first performance of a glorious masterpiece like Beethoven's 9th Symphony should have disappointed its composer, and caused such little excitement among European music lovers. Beethoven's disenchantment was perhaps understandable, for he was frustrated by his deafness.
Ruth Orkin
Rutherford Hayes
Robert Motherwell
Warren Harding
Frederic Leighton
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