Every once in a while Aunty comes across a nice, novel, and altruistic use of the Internet. Such is this site which just came to Aunty’s attention.

As you may be aware, for various legal reasons having to do with copyright processes and time limits, classical music is, for the most part, free of copyright restrictions. Primarily this has to do with copyright expiring 70 years after the death of the copyright holder (however, a performer or author or musician can hold a copyright to their unique rendition of that classical piece).

Thus, there are classical archives all over the Internet where you can download classical music completely free, although for some reason these tend to be in MIDI format rather than MP3.

Recently, Aunty came across the site UnheardBeethoven.org.

This nifty Web site is dedicated to bringing to the masses the works of Beethoven which heretofore have gone unrecorded, and, indeed, for the most part unknown.

Says the site, “This Web site endeavors to make all of Beethoven’s unrecorded music readily accessible to the public…

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