Beethoven had a bit of an obsession with the key of C minor. And overwhelmingly in his C minor works, they modulate to C major. So this idea of the heroic journey, which a lot of people see as central to Beethoven's central period, you can see that epitomized in C minor struggle, struggle, struggle and triumphant C major. The number 111 plays a central role in Finnegan's Wake and in our Tocrolis neurology.

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