Janos Gereben wrote:

>Can you remember the first piece of classical music that inspired you?
>A great question, although I wonder about "inspire." Impressed?  Moved?
>Enchanted? Beethoven's Seventh for me, its  "apotheosis of dance."

I remember listening as a very young boy to the overture of "West Side
Story" if this can be considered classical, but the first real piece
that inspired was Beethoven's 5th, expecially the energy and victory
of the Finale.  (still the greatest of the kind it created).

David Rothstein
Israel

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