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Did you know Beethoven was a passionate supporter of the French Revolution?
He followed its ideas of freedom and equality with fiery enthusiasm. And while France was reshaping itself, Germany was in turmoil too — old empires trembling, new ideas rising. Beethoven watched these events unfold from Bonn and later Vienna, absorbing the political tensions that would echo through his music.

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