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Would he be turning in his grave?

Christine Cahoon   Fri 21 Sep 2018

The sound was music to my ears... a 'tune' that I'm very familiar with. In my teenage years I practised it to perfection on the piano... I loved it... "Für Elise" by Beethoven, supposedly published 40 years after his death in 1867.

Now more than 190 years after his death, I bet he'd be "turning in his grave" if he heard it the way I heard it... from an ice-cream van driving down the road. It made me cringe at the tinny sound.

Or maybe he'd be grateful to know that something he composed resonated with someone.

Just think in 190 years time is there anything that you or I have or will have done that will resonate with anyone... who knows!