Bill Pirkle wrote: >I sense a lot of impulse, rather than overall design in Beethoven's music. >As if he decided to fly into a rage at a point in a composition - like OK >that's enough of this, it time for some excitement. Maybe that is part of >his meta-composing style. For me, Beethoven's power stems from the way his architectural sense manages just to hold these primal forces in check--at least in his "heroic" works such as the Eroica. Chris Bonds