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    J is for Joke, particularly this bad one that is repeated all too often:

    When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave. Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate.

    When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards."

    He listened a while longer, and said, "There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh... the Sixth... the Fifth..."

    Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about. It's just Beethoven decomposing."

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      Beginning to 'scrape the barrel', Sorrano? OK, we'll accept it because it is (according to the vague rules of this quiz) somehow Beethoven related!
      K is for ...

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        That was one I should be shot for.

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          Originally posted by Sorrano View Post
          That was one I should be shot for.
          Kakadu Variations for Piano Trio.

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            Landler. Beethoven must have written some of those.

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              Originally posted by Michael View Post
              Kakadu Variations for Piano Trio.
              I thought for a moment you were being scatalogical there, Michael! Then I checked on Google ...
              Bravo for that one!

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                Originally posted by Enrique View Post
                Landler. Beethoven must have written some of those.
                I wasn't at all sure that was the case. Then I checked on Google, and lo and behold, he did indeed write a bunch of them! Well done, Enrique.

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                  L = Larghetto, a tempo marking Beethoven sometimes used, but not often if I recall correctly.

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                    Double L's? Don't we need an M?

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                      Marmotte. Song, Op. 52 No. 7

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                        Nei giorni tuoi felici, WoO 93
                        ‘Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.’

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                          24 hours without a post. The quiz is slowing down!

                          I think the world record for any posting-board thread is over 7000 pages, but I'm sure we can beat that! Come on!!..

                          Olives, the Mount on which Christ was, Opus 85.

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                            Seeing that PDG is dying for a P, herewith:

                            "Plutarch has shown me the path of resignation", wrote Beethoven in 1801 in a letter concerning his deafness.

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                              That's a touching 'P', Michael. Thanks.

                              Q = "Quasi Una Fantasia", the subtitle given by Mr van B himself to both his Opus 27 sonatas. And what pearls they are..

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                                [QUOTE=PDG;58238]That's a touching 'P', Michael. Thanks.

                                It was the least I could do, seeing as you mentioned the watershed in another thread.

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