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  • Yet as I stood near the garbage cans of the house Zur sch nen Sklavin, I could easily imagine Beethoven together, presumably, with his sometime amanuensis,

    'The Ninth' 2010

  • In the composer's day the address was Landstrasse 323, and the building was called the house Zur sch nen Sklavin (By the Beautiful Slave Girl); Beethoven lived in it throughout the final months of the symphony's creation and until shortly after its first performance.

    'The Ninth' 2010

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