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Beethoven
- Narrated by: Aled Jones
- Length: 22 mins
- Original Recording Audiobook
- Release date: 12-02-13
- Language: English
- Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Regular price: $0.95
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This is a story from the Famous Composers collection.
Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Aled Jones combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvořák, and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music is told against the backdrop of some of their finest works - an ideal combination.
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