Bernard Chasan wrote:

>Don may be onto something.  Just this morning I was listening to a
>broadcast of the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven - and yes- there suddenly
>appears a MARCH theme -
>
>da  da dadada  da .

I believe that the snatch of military music in the MS is not LvB being
militaristic, but the opposite.  After all, he lived through the French
occupying Vienna once or twice, and were he alive today, he would
definitely qualify as a peacenik.

Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]