Why Beethoven wasn’t the original punk rocker of classical music

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Why Beethoven wasn’t the original punk rocker of classical music

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By Alexander Carpenter
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The BBC claims that the annual Proms concert is perhaps one of “the oldest punk-rock concerts on the planet”

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Aligning Beethoven – and other composers who may have challenged audiences – with the rebellious thrust of punk music is a step too far, writes Alexander Carpenter

For many commentators, any composer who went against the grain in some way was a punk Last summer, the meme “Beethoven was Black” was trending on