Some rare bits of Bernstein's Harvard lecture series "The Unanswered Question" shows trenchantly how Beethoven uses a repeated coda--the end of a piece of music, of all things--as the famous 'ta-ta-ta-tum' motive for his entire 5th Symphony. More-complete libraries and the Amazon.com link have the DVDs.
Genius of Beethoven's Spring Sonata
Mozart's 40th Symphony - the elegant diatonic containment of chromaticism that looks clearly forward to the last century
Why Beethoven is NOT a terrible composer
Leonard Bernstein performs Beethoven's Ode to Joy
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