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(FOX NEWS) – Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. The Fifth Symphony opens with four now universally recognized dramatic opening notes: da-da-da-DUH!
Among other incredible influences far beyond the world of music, those four c-minor notes by the famed German composer became a powerful symbol of the Allied drive to victory over Nazi Germany in World War II more than a century later.
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"The most common story that is told is that Beethoven allegedly said that the opening of the symphony was supposedly symbolizing fate knocking at the door," Matthew Guerrieri, author of "The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination," told NPR in a 2012 interview.
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