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Old 03-20-2011, 07:48 AM   #15 (permalink)
starrynight
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Originally Posted by mannny View Post
Beethoven is by far my favorite composer. Yes his early work is considered in the Classical period, but his later works are clearly Romantic and he is considered to be one of the founders of the period. Some of his last works weren't even fully appreciated until the twentieth century.
I would look at Beethoven as a classicist, I don't think there is any guarantee he would have liked the works of Liszt for example. Some people appreciated his last works at the time but they divided opinion.
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