I recently came across this in a novel I’m reading:-
“Although he was a very great musician, and a wizard composer of symphonies, Beethoven was quite often a dismal failure when it came to ending them. The Fifth was a perfect case in point.
I remembered that the end of the thing, the allegro, was one of those times when Beethoven just couldn’t seem to find the ‘off’ switch
.
Dum … dum … dum-dum-dum, it would go, and you would think it was over.
But no—-
Dum, dah, dum, dah, dum, dah, dum, dah, dum, dah, dum – DUM dum
You’d go to get up and stretch, sighing with satisfaction at the great work you’d listened to, and suddenly,
DAH dum. DAH dum. DAH dum. And so forth. DAH dum
It was a bit like a bit of flypaper stuck to your finger that you couldn’t shake off. The bl**dy thing clung to you like a limpet” (Alan Bradley)
I’ve had this comment made to me in the past by others and just wondered how many agree with the view expressed?