Beethoven was one of the greatest geniuses of all time in any of the arts; if all we had was the string quartets, we could go to a desert island. He wrote happy ("unbuttoned") music when his personal life was a turmoil, and transcendently probing music when he personally was doing rather well. He should be an example to us all as a craftsman, just to start with; the rest is inexplicable, and cause for gratitude. D. Clarke *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html