ETA Hoffman described romanticism in his review of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, where he encouraged people to consider music "the most romantic of all the arts." Berlioz spoke, in his Memoirs, “In the life of an artist sometimes one thunder rapidly follows another… I had just had the successive revelations of Shakespeare and Weber Now in another place on the horizon I saw the giant form rearing of Beethoven as great as Shakespeare's, Beethoven opened a new musical world before me, just as Shakespeare had revealed a new poetic universe." In simplistic terms, many people have drawn inspiration from him, literally or metaphorically. Gustav Mahler drew on the Pastorale to move away from the traditional four-movement symphony. These are the most direct references I can think of to the way Beethoven led others in function, if not in form - and as through his actions, not through his hands, he led, so his legacy permeates through their