In the world of “Peanuts,” of course, Schroeder was the Beethoven-
obsessed music nerd who lost patience when Lucy interrupted his practice
and who called time-outs as a baseball catcher to share composer trivia
with the pitcher. Yet musicologists and art curators have learned that
there was much more than a punch line to Charles Schulz's invocation of
Beethoven's music.
“If you don't read music and you can’t identify the music in the strips,
then you lose out on some of the meaning,” said William Meredith, the
director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose
State University, who has studied hundreds of Beethoven-themed “Peanuts”
strips.
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I had always assumed that Charles Schulz
copied the music into his strips instead of just making it up, and I also
assumed it was, in fact, Beethoven. So it
doesn't surprise me all that much that he matched the music to the strip.
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