Jim Tobin asks:

>What other composers have famously destroyed their own works?

Alan Hovhaness is supposed to have destroyed virtually all of his
early works, after he arrived at his later vein of Armenian/Orientalist
rhapsodizing.  Apparently, this early step exhausted Hovhaness' self-critical
faculties forever afterward; I am fond of his rhapsodizing style within
limits, but judicious application of the match sometime after Symphony
# Umpteen wouldn't have been a bad idea.

Cheers///

Jon Gallant                and                    Dr. Phage