Date: 12/08/2009

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State and the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa will celebrate the composer's birthday Wednesday, December 16 by posting online music files for the tunes featured in Peanuts comic strips. The pieces Charlie Brown's pal Schroeder pounded out on his toy piano were Beethoven classics. The files will be posted on the American Beethoven Society website.

Also, the Beethoven Center will commemorate the composer's birth with an open house and screening of the biographical film "In Search of Beethoven" at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, December 12, in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.

Read more on "Schulz's Beethoven: Schroeder's Muse."

Visit the Beethoven Center website.

Visit the American Beethoven Society website.