Karl Miller wrote: >And, if one puts even your little toe into the J.S. Bach field, I think >of all of those works that use the BACH motive in them...and then there >are those that quote the Dies Irae...a friend of mine wrote a tango on >the Die Irae. And then there's Ronald Stevenson's 75+-minute Passacaglia on DSCH, whose final fugue has three subjects: DSCH, BACH and the Dies Irae. Have I missed it, or has nobody mentioned Lucian Berio's magnificent Sinfonia? The third movement is based on the third mvt of Mahler 2, with quotations from more composers than I can recall - certainly Beethoven's Pastoral, Strauss's Rosenkavelier, Debussy's La Mer, Stockhausen's Gruppen and many more. Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>