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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

QUESTION 143

X WAS WORKING ON SOMETHING WHICH HE MEANT TO DEDICATE TO Y. EVEN THOUGH HE WASN'T BOUND TO RECEIVE ANY MAJOR FINANCIAL RETURN BY DEDICATING IT, HE PROCEEDED. BUT WHEN Y DID SOMETHING WHICH INFURIATED X, X SCRATCHED OUT Y'S NAME FROM THE DEDICATION SO HARD THAT A HOLE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE ON THE PAPER. WHAT DID X PLAN TO DEDICATE?

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3 comments:

  1. X - Ludvig Van Beethoven

    Y - Bonaparte

    Symphony No.3

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  2. In 1804, when Napoleon's imperial ambitions became clear, Beethoven took hold of the title-page of his Third Symphony and scratched the name Bonaparte out so violently that he made a hole in the pape

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