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Re: Beethoven's Death
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"Stephen E. Bacher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 3 Jan 2006 07:04:53 -0500
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Bernard Chasan writes:

>Add to this the 19th century corporate-conspiracy theory of wine
>laced with lead to make it taste like fine-aged vintages posited by
>Nicholas J.  Yasillo and we have ourselves a lead-pipe (I mean lead-cup)
>cinch that Beethoven was lead belly.

Which seems apt, since one can clearly hear LB's "Goodnight Irene" quoted
in the middle of the other LB's string quartet Op.  131...

 - seb

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