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How Beethoven Lost a Symphony: Witt’s Jéna Symphony

A work that reflects the state of the symphony after the death of Haydn and before Beethoven’s innovations in his Eroica Symphony.

Friedrich Witt: Symphony in C major, “Jéna” - I. Adagio – Allegro Vivace

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