chanteyranger! Beethoven's 6th has special meaning to me too, but the last movement, the shepherd's song of thanksgiving.

When I was about 12, my music teacher gave a special music appreciation class for several of us Protestants. (She was the only nun I had seen up until that point.) She told the story of her sister who was in the hospital coming out of a coma and singing Beethoven themes at the top of her lungs. She had children's words to that last movement (a bluebird), and I still hear those words today.

When I was a teenager, I played the record of Beethoven's 6th over and over. (All my friends were listening to the Beetles.) A movie of that time had a statement in it about listening to Beethoven, "Oh world, I can't hold thee close enough." (Can't remember the movie)