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Charles Schulz, the creator of "Peanuts," was going for more than a punch Line when he made Schroeder a Beethoven-obsessed music nerd.

"The music is a character in the strip as much as the people are, because the music sets the tone," according to William Meredith, a Beethoven scholar at San Jose State University. Schulz often jotted down ideas for the strip during classical concerts. (His own favorite composer was Brahms, but he decided that the...