When Beethoven, late in his life, and fully deaf, survived a serious illness, he wrote a slow movement for one of his fabled final string quartets, calling it a "convalescent's holy song of Thanksgiving," now known as the Heiliger Dankgesang. I am not alone in considering it one of the greatest and most profound pieces of music ever written. Plus here's latest on our film and book about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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