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C’est dans la maturité de sa trentième année que Beethoven s’engagea réellement dans la voie de la symphonie. A titre de comparaison, en 1788, trois ans avant sa mort, Mozart, âgé de trente-deux ans, avait déjà signé ses quarante-et-une symphonies. / It was not until Beethoven had reached the maturity of his thirtieth year that he truly committed himself to the symphony. By way of comparison let us recall that, in 1788, three years before his death, Mozart, aged thirty-two, had already written his forty-one numbered symphonies.