Should we erase Beethoven?
This is not the title of comedian Gaspard Proust's next show, but the very serious question posed by Cambridge University's independent newspaper,
Varsity
, on its site on December 25.
Strange Christmas present for a composer whose 250th birthday was being celebrated ten days earlier.
Only here, this year 2020, announced as that of the universal coronation of the father of the
Ninth
, did not quite go as planned.
And the health crisis is not the only grain of sand to have come to stop the machine.
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As if the cancellation of most of the celebrations planned last year (starting with the Beethovenfest in his hometown, Bonn) had not been enough, the musician has indeed been fueling heated debates among our colleagues since this autumn. Anglo-Saxon, on the theme of
"too pale, too male, too stale"
Understand
"too white, too male and too old".
In short, the composer of
La Lettre à Élise
, of the
Fifth Symphony
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