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| | All Beethoven |
 | | The city’s professional musicians were occupied year-round by performances presented by the various theaters throughout the Habsburg capital, and windows of opportunity for anyone to stage a concert outside the theaters’ managements were limited to two or three days before the start of Easter week, and a similar period before Christmas. |
 | | Fidelio was the name the principal character, Leonore, assumed when she, disguised as a man, became an assistant to the jailer at a medieval fortress in order to save her wrongfully imprisoned husband, Florestan. |
 | | An advertisement for these publications appeared shortly thereafter in a well-circulated German-language music journal which on the same page also contained a notice of the publication of a new symphony by one Justin Heinrich Knecht entitled A Musical Portrait of Nature. |
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