When I first heard the Globalist, I kept thinking of the song "This Night" by Billy Joel. "This Night" is the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata accompanied by lyrics arranged by Billy Joel.
However, "The Globalist" is in fact based on Elgar's 'Nimrod' from the Enigma Variations. So why was I thinking Beethoven/Billy Joel?
Here's the answer from Wiki:
Once, when Elgar had been very depressed and was about to give it all up and write no more music, Augustus J. Jaeger had visited him and encouraged him to continue composing.
He referred to Ludwig van Beethoven, who had a lot of worries, but wrote more and more beautiful music. "And that is what you must do", Jaeger said and he sang the theme of the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 Pathétique.
Elgar disclosed to Dora that the opening bars of 'Nimrod' were made to suggest that theme. "Can’t you hear it at the beginning? Only a hint, not a quotation."
So Beethoven influenced Elgar who then influenced Matthew Bellamy.
