Len Fehskens:

>Beethoven always *sounds* like Beethoven; there's something
>about his orchestration, his rhythmic structures, his melodic lines, his
>harmonic progressions, that are in combination uniquely Beethovenian.  ...

I would add Bartok, Vaughn Williams, Stravinsky, Berg, Nielsen, Chopin,
Berlioz, Janacek, Wolf, Sibelius.  What Len calls signatures, I have long
thought of as footprints.  And I think that whatever you call it, it is
something all great composers are endowed with.

Bernard Chasan