Ludwig van Beethoven · 1827 Spin it Again - Seven movements played without pause, written by a man who couldn't hear a note of it, and somehow that's the least remarkable thing about it.

Johann Christian Bach · 1770 Spin it Again - Johann Christian Bach, the forgotten London Bach, writing keyboard concertos in 1770 that Mozart basically studied like homework and then never once credited.

Tchaikovsky · 1875 Spin it Again - Tchaikovsky wrote it in 1875 and they almost didn't play it, and that opening chord sequence is the reason you still remember what a piano sounds like.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1785 Spin it Again - Mozart was twenty-nine, had maybe six years left, and still wrote a slow movement so unhurried it makes you resent every clock you own.

Mozart · 1786 Spin it Again - Mozart at thirty, writing a slow movement so quietly devastating that even he knew not to push it further.

Anton Bruckner · 1896 Spin it Again - Bruckner died before he could finish it, and the three movements he left behind make you suspect he knew that was enough.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · 1866 Spin it Again - Tchaikovsky was twenty-six, calling it *Winter Daydreams*, and you can hear a young man who hasn't quite decided if he's Russian or German yet, which turns out to be exactly the tension worth sitting with.

Johannes Brahms · 1883 Spin it Again - Brahms at fifty, done proving himself, finally just writing the thing he heard in his head.

Johannes Brahms · 1876 Spin it Again - Brahms sat on this thing for twenty years, and you can hear every single one of them.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1803 Spin it Again - Beethoven in 1803, still thirty-two years old, writing a funeral march forty minutes in like he already knew how the century was going to go.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1824 Spin it Again - Beethoven was completely deaf when he wrote it, and you can hear exactly what that does to a man who still had something left to say.

Beethoven · 1808 Spin it Again - Four notes, two hundred years, and it still sounds like someone kicking in a door.