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Practically every Jane Austen heroine plays the piano... (If her lover or husband was musical, he probably played a melody instrument such as the flute or violin - with the consequence that when they played sonatas together she accompanied him, taking her lead from him, just as she was expected to do in other walks of life.)

Jonathan Del Mar's recent edition of [Beethoven's] Ninth Symphony amply illustrates the embarrassing fact that some of the most imaginative and original moments in the canon have been the result of printers' errors.