Robert Peters: >Yes, but the point is that Beethoven was restricted by the aesthetics of >his day. It would be very interesting to know (alas, it is impossible) >how he would compose today given all the artistic freedom contemporary >composers have. when poor little artists were kept in a cage by an infamous giant named (fill the blank). He dictated them the laws of aesthetics, and if anyone of them dared to defy his canon, the giant ate him without any consideration. When the giant was young he was a real tyran, but he became much more kind as years passed by. So, the more you go back in time, the less creative freedom allowed to poor little artists. As all we knows, that explains many things in art history. Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]