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The Morgan is celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth with a collection display of his sketches and manuscripts, including beloved works like the Hammerklavier Piano Sonata and the “Ghost” Piano Trio. Join Robinson McClellan, Assistant Curator of Music, to explore Beethoven’s creative choices, hear transcriptions of passages he discarded, and probe what E.T.A. Hoffmann meant when he wrote, of Beethoven, “His kingdom is not of this world.”
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Detail of Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70, no. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Autograph manuscript (1808), The Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum.