Bill Pirkle wrote:

>I sense a lot of impulse, rather than overall design in Beethoven's music.
>As if he decided to fly into a rage at a point in a composition - like OK
>that's enough of this, it time for some excitement.  Maybe that is part of
>his meta-composing style.

For me, Beethoven's power stems from the way his architectural sense
manages just to hold these primal forces in check--at least in his "heroic"
works such as the Eroica.

Chris Bonds