> But, actually, I think you either like Beethoven or you like Mozart. It's
> the way it goes.
Two very different moments of aesthetic history, though both are magnificent. To paraphrase Adorno, Mozart is like Kant -- shimmering vistas of potential freedom, with those Rousseausque motifs warbling amidst Absolutist rococo. Beethoven is like Hegel -- the motifs are now thematic, organizing every level of the material, like national laws binding mobilized peasantries. The proto-national melodies of the former become the symbolic national anthems of the latter.
-- DRR