[SaveTheChief]

It's funny. People like what they like. When I was in college, I played in a baroque ensemble and played a lot of Italian music. It's absolutely wonderful, but fortunately I didn't get to the point where I didn't appreciate, or enjoy playing the rest of it.

Beethoven is among my very favorites, and his piano concertos and violin concerto are monumental works, IMHO.

I agree that once Beethoven came along, music changed dramatically, but the musical shot heard round the world was the "Eroica" Symphony. Once that came around, nothing was quite the same.

[labard1]

Beethoven's string quartets are my favorite Beethoven. But even his worst works are interesting.

I love baroque and medieval music.