The Composer Of all the classical composers, Beethoven is by far my favourite. The drama and passion of his music, not to mention his genius, has ensured his place alongside Mozart right at the top of the classical tree. Although a composer of music generally regarded as being of the classical period, he's also considered to have been responsible for moving the musical genre forward by kick-starting the romantic era of composition and opening up the way for the likes of Chopin, Schubert and Brahms. In fact, when Brahms published his own first symphony, it was dubbed Beethoven's Tenth because it so closely mirrored the new structure of which Beethoven was ...  Read the complete review