Billy Kitson:

>James Tobin wrote:
>
>>Hitler may have liked Beethoven, but Beethoven assuredly would not have
>>liked Hitler.
>
>Oh, "hold on" What was the Eroica's" first title?? The "Napoleon"??

His planned dedication to Napoleon was when Beethoven thought Napoleon
was overthrowing tyrants, not becoming one, and you know what Beethoven
did to the title page of Eroica when Napoleon made himself Emperor.  Also
Beethoven's use, in the 9th Symphony, of Schiller's call for universal
brotherhood was not exactly a sentiment in the spirit of Hitler.

I meant to embellish my original line with a quote from Heine:

    "She was loveable, and he loved her.
    But he was not loveable, and she did not love him."

Jim