David Harbin wrote: >Cheers Mimi but I love Bruckner. The difference is that Bruckner's >symphonies organically grow whist Schubert's The Great just has these >dreadfully innane 'jolly' tunes that go nowhere. David, you need to read a good analysis of what Schubert is doing here. The structure is actually masterly and, again, he is pointing the way forward, using 3 subjects for his sonata form instead of 2, etc. >Didn't Bernard Shaw descible it as "the most brainless composition put >on paper"? Actually I think it was "exasperatingly brainless", but.... >So much repetition with weak material! Dangerous ground! Isn't the fundamental motif of Beethoven 5 fairly uninteresting in itself? Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>