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Beethoven was profoundly deaf when he composed the Ninth Symphony

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Modern tuning splits the octave into 12 equal steps — using the 12th root of 2

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Mozart wrote his first symphony at age eight

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The oldest known musical instrument is a 40,000-year-old bird-bone flute

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A John Cage piece is being played so slowly it will take 639 years

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Why an octave sounds 'the same' note: it's a perfect 2:1 frequency ratio

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The oldest complete song we can still play is carved on a Greek tombstone

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14 Jan 1973

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Elvis Presley's Aloha from Hawaii reaches a global audience

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13 Apr 1742

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Handel's Messiah premiered in Dublin

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12 Jul 1962

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The Rolling Stones played their first concert

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13 Jul 1985

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Live Aid linked two stadiums for famine relief

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5 Oct 1962

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The Beatles released their first single, "Love Me Do"

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18 Dec 1737

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Antonio Stradivari, master violin maker, died

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3 Feb 1959

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'The Day the Music Died' plane crash

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7 Feb 1964

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The Beatles land in America

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21 Mar 1685

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Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach

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