Howdy Daniel,
And even I - and I also don't care for metal - really enjoyed your rendition
Your Mom has good taste (but you knew that ;) ). It just goes to show that there are lots of sources for good inspiration.
I haven't listened to the original, but I am wondering if the various treatments of the motif were your idea, or are such variations present in the original as well?
Your piece made me wonder what Beethoven would have sounded like had he been born now, and decided that metal was his genre ;)
ttfn,
Sherry