Beethoven. I think he was one of a kind.
Interesting story if you enjoy Beethoven. I heard an interview with a famous conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, a couple of years ago. This brilliant conductor claimed that he recently decoded a message within Beethoven's 6th symphony, which is my all time favorite classical piece. Apparently, Beethoven hid the same cadence from the first movement of his famous 5th symphony. The part most of us know - the part.....ba ba ba bammmmm...ba ba ba bammmm
Anyway, the 5th symphony was very dark for its time. Beethoven turned around and with his 6th symphony it is extremely uplifting to counter his prior dark symphony, whithin which he cleverly hid the exact same cadience that I illustrated above.
How brilliant that it took over 200 hundred years for someone to decode this, and kudos for the brilliant conductor to figure it out. Beethoven probably went to his grave with a kind of "an inside joke" never having reveled his secret to anyone. It must be so complex that I imagine Bethoveen figured no one would ever find it.
Love clever stuff like this!
If you enjoy classical music listen to his 6th symphony on YouTube, especially if you need to see if it might elevate your mood.