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 | | For his Academy concert of April 2nd, 1800, Ludwig van Beethoven employed this facility as well, to premiere his First Symphony. |
 | | Years later, on May 7th, 1824, the orchestra of the Society of the Friends of Music (composed, that is, of dilettantes), along with the Court Opera Orchestra, augmented by the Court Music Ensemble, played the first performance of Beethoven's Ninth—an historic event. |
 | | Between 1906 and 1944 he conducted countless opera and concert performances at home and abroad, and was bound to the orchestra by ties of heartfelt friendship, climaxed by the celebrations, in the family-circle of the Vienna Philharmonic, of his 75th and 80th birthdays (1939 and 1944, respectively). |
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