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Beethoven Sketchbook Reveals Final Song[Edit]
A piano piece has surfaced that an expert believes is Beethovan’s last. Beethoven said, “Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.” For real, Google it! Just when the world believes all the master’s music has been discovered, we find out there is still more to be enjoyed. Peter McCallam, a professor of musicology at the University of Sydney, found 32 bars of handwritten notes while looking at a Beethoven sketchbook.  "The sketchbooks are very rich sources but they are very difficult to read and need a bit of deciphering, but you can work it out if you look at it for long enough," he added. "He does use a key signature that gives us a hint, so you've got to guess." McCallum said he believed the piece was written in October 1826, a few months before Beethoven died in March 1827.
He said the piece was quite melancholy but "rather charming and quite simple. It's also got a rather nice quality and it's not dif
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