I've read that it is forbidden in some quarters to play Beethoven and Mozart in Tehran.
And you can mix and blend your instruments in ways that Beethoven and Mozart never could have imagined.
The parents of Beethoven and Mozart were musicians, while Chopin, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky had music-lovers, though not musicians, as their parents.
Once home to composers including Beethoven, Mozart, and Johann Strauss, and to artists Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, as well as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Vienna has been at the forefront of major cultural movements for centuries.
If the avant-garde was still heard in the concert hall, the programme would be sugared with Mozart and Beethoven.
He's a commodities trader, one of Forbes magazine's 400 richest people, and he just donated some of his trophies to the Juilliard School an eye-popping trove of manuscripts of works by such immortal composers as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
For him this meant the giants of the German tradition: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms.
It may strike an eerie note that a computer could become a more prodigious composer than Mozart, Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven combined.
Haydn's horn concerto, Mozart's four horn concertos, and Beethoven's sonata for horn and piano were all written for natural horn, although they're usually played today on valve horn.
He told me how, some years ago, in different encounters, one prominent soloist told him to give up on Mozart and another that he was hopeless with Beethoven.
After performing a full program of Bach, Handel and Mozart, he asked the audience to choose any one of Beethoven's sonatas for him to play as an encore, by heart.
Because, before a Beethoven symphony, Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' or Wagner's ''Tristan and Isolde, '' all human beings are equal.
For classical music buffs, two pieces that work for him are Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, known as the "Eroica" symphony, and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
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