Walter Meyer wrote: >How much significant information on Beethoven could researchers have >discovered in the last 34 years that had remained unknown for the previous >140? One detail that pertains to Beethoven's life is the state of the economy in Vienna. Econometrics has advanced a great deal over the last generation, and the picture it paints of Beethoven's Vienna - racked by inflation - gives a greater insight to the tremendous stress that supporting himself as a composer created. Stirling Newberry [log in to unmask] http://www.mp3.com/ssn