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"The term heroic works from many directions and may be defended on several grounds: as a historiographical phenomenon encompassing the romantic view of Beethoven; as an expressive-subjective phenomenon articulating the predominant tone or character of many of the works [from the first decade of the 19th century], or as a biographical phenomenon, in which sufficient external correspondence exists to justify the label as Beethoven's own" (Michael Broyles, The Emergence and Evolution of Beethoven's Heroic Style (New York: Excelsior, 1987), p. 111)