Department of Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series. The rejected finale of Beethoven’s op. 30/1, reborn as the finale to op. 47, not only bears the imprint of its original surroundings but also shaped the composition of the first two movements of op. 47. The finale is, so to speak, the transmitter of structural “DNA” from a sonata at the threshold of Beethoven’s “heroic” style to a sonata exemplifying that style. Much was at stake in Beethoven’s endeavor, for his current symphonic project was the Eroica, for which the finale was essentially in place in the form of the Variations op. 35.