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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
It has been claimed that Beethoven—in a refusal to perform for some French officers at one of the estates of Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky—told the Austrian nobleman in a letter, "Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am through my own efforts. There have been thousands of princes and will be thousands more; there is only one Beethoven!"
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I actually just heard that quote from the Announcer on the local classical station. They are playing and doing special Beethoven things today.
