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Why Beethoven wasn’t the original punk rocker of classical music
Last summer, the meme “Beethoven was Black” was trending online, a trope that drew the iconic composer into a 21st century discussion about race and social justice.
But there is another curious classical music trope in circulation, one that is actually hard to avoid: Beethoven was a punk.
- Alexander Carpenter
- The Conversation
A cursory search for information about iconic composers like …