CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- Four fateful notes were knocking around in Beethoven’s head when he was composing many of his most famous works in his mid-30s. This motif would, of course, find its supreme ...

Twenty minutes into the first movement of Beethoven’s violin concerto, the motif — four sixteenth notes rising up in pitch, then a fifth descending, ushering in another string of notes to echo the ...