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Encouragement to listen to Beethoven’s fourth (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

heart

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'encouragement' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both feelings as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'listen to beethoven's fourth' is the wordplay.
'listen to' becomes 'hear' (I've seen this before).
'beethoven's fourth' becomes 't' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hear'+'t'='HEART'

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for heart that I've seen before include "Vital organ - centre - courage" , "Playing card - pity" , "Decorated (cake)" , "Central part" , "It's in the chest" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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