Janos Gereben writes:

> Can you remember the first piece of classical music that inspired you?
> A great question, although I wonder about "inspire." Impressed? Moved?
> Enchanted? Beethoven's Seventh for me, its "apotheosis of dance." In
> opera, "Carmen," but no more, *please*!

Mozart's Jupiter Symphony when I was fourteen or fifteen but I was hooked
on classical music by Debussy's La Mer and the Three Nocturnes for
Orchestra at age twenty.

Peter Herwitz

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