“I would uncover my head and kneel on his grave,” Ludwig van Beethoven once remarked about George Frederic Handel. And even as Beethoven lay dying, he venerated Handel as the greatest composer who ever lived. Holding a copy of Handel’s work, the dying Beethoven proclaimed, “There is the truth.” 

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