Walter Meyer wrote:
>I became interested in classical music as a boy through Wagner who had
>set to music some of the myths and legends I liked to read, getting to
>Beethoven through the Fifth Symphony, the first notes of which were the
>Morse code signal for V(ictory) and hence popular during WWII.
I suppose you, too, had a 78 album of Beethoven's 5th (RCA or Columbia?)
with a red cover with a big white V... ___ (morse symbol) on it as my
folks did.
Mary Esterheld