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It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that Charles Schultz used real and relevant snippets of musical scores in his Peanuts comic strips. The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA is running a special exhibit “Schulz’s Beethoven: Schroeder’s Muse” which allows visitors to hear the music printed in the strips. Beethoven scholar William Meredith analyzed the strips to identify the music, most often played by Schroeder on his baby grand, and to find the extra layer of meaning added by the composition.

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