Jim Tobin asks: >What other composers have famously destroyed their own works? Alan Hovhaness is supposed to have destroyed virtually all of his early works, after he arrived at his later vein of Armenian/Orientalist rhapsodizing. Apparently, this early step exhausted Hovhaness' self-critical faculties forever afterward; I am fond of his rhapsodizing style within limits, but judicious application of the match sometime after Symphony # Umpteen wouldn't have been a bad idea. Cheers/// Jon Gallant and Dr. Phage