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The Berlin State Library is putting the original score of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on display to mark the 200th anniversary of the work’s premiere. The manuscript will go on show at the Stabi Kulturwerk, the library’s exhibition space, from May 7 to August 25, the library announced on Monday. The last movement, with the setting of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” will also be displayed, it said. This part of the symphony has been used as the European anthem since 1985. The symphony was premiered in Vienna on May 7, 1824. The written sheet music was bound into book form around 1850. Beethove…

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