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Beethoven is the most frequently performed of all classical composers. He was also a radical artist who constantly reinvented himself, and expanded the boundaries of music. Photo: Handout
Classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven will get a big birthday bash on the 250th anniversary of his birth.
The Grammy Award-winning American music producer Quincy Jones and German-British composer and pianist Max Richter will premiere new music to celebrate the occasion.
The Beethoven Anniversary Society announced recently that two concerts will be streamed online, as part of the BTHVN2020 festivities to celebrate the composer s birth.
On Dec 17, 3.30am (Malaysian time), audiences around the world can tune into Magenta Musik 360 and BTHVN 2020 websites free-of-charge for Beethoven Night Powered By Telekom - a concert by conductor Dirk Kaftan and Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, a symphony orchestra in based in Bonn, Germany, where Beethoven was born in 1770.