Jim Tobin writes: >... What other composers have famously destroyed their own works? Brahms, for one. Sometimes he merely reworked the pieces extensively, but I dimly recall that he destroyed a few things and all the subsequent hand-wringing that has gone on since, from at least Clara Schumann to the latest musicologist who's finally given up looking. Vaughan Williams may have done so. At any rate, a bunch of early orchestral pieces, professionally premiered, have gone missing. The Norfolk Rhapsody, for example, was originally one of four Norfolk Rhapsodies. There's an ironic example. The Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt for some reason literally tore up the score to Prillar due to the frustration of failing to get a performance. Most of his scores went up in a house fire (this was a composer of whom it was said that "music poured out of him like a flood"; he wrote at least 29 piano sonatas, for instance). After the composer's death, his son was cleaning out the barn, which had been untouched by the fire, and came across among the trash a bag of manuscript paper torn into strips. You guessed it: it was the score to Prillar. Steve Schwartz