20/01/2023

The Boy on Dragon Rock

When Beethoven was a teenager in Bonn, he climbed the Dragon Rock above the River Rhine and longed to go east to Vienna. When he got there, one of the first compositions that made him famous was his song Adelaida, here sung by Dietrich Fischer-Diskau.

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