In a prolific career spanning six decades, actor Burt Reynolds was a definitive American icon and one of the world's most famous stars of film and TV.  Meer

examines the influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. During 1845 46 the compositional styles of Schumann and Wagner changed in a common direction, toward a style that was more contrapuntal, more densely motivic, and engaged in processes of thematic transformation.  Meer