Ludwig van Beethoven:

The more I think of it, the more I feel that there is something wrong with the whole business of publishing. The publishers are the real thieves.

— Ludwig van Beethoven Early Modern

Composer, deaf genius

Letter to Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz

1816

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