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Vienna at that time was a marvelous place for young musicians to go to. It has always been a city of pleasure and frivolity right back to the middle ages. The city was the most crowded city in Europe at that time. It had a population of probably a quarter of a million, that is 25 times of Bonn, at the top of society, there would be endless balls, then musical concerts, and then for the ordinary people in the streets there would be juggling acrobats, street music, puppeteers, but there was another side to it, someone described this city as frivolity but despairing frivolity.

The ruler of the Europe was terrified that French revolution would spread. In Vienna, the emperor tightened the censorship and gave extra power to the secret police but instrumental music, the most abstract at least censorable of the arts flourished.

I think it is recognized from the beginning the extent of Beethoven was within the whole influence of Mozart and J. But I think it was also shocking from the beginning what was he doing that and people really hated it. I mean there was no question about the affect from the beginning Beethoven's style of playing piano and his style of composing were repellent.

Comments such as Beethoven's music is hairbrained, that it was bizarre, that it was overly complex, that it jolted listeners out of transports. All of these comments came from musicians.


" the opening is able to present the truth."

“As a kind of a hightness quality I mean even that, is sort of more humorous than -- slightly more rough than would do but you know that a little costive than Hayden, but it still has a thing, but later in the piece, ”

“I mean all that, were the basic keep going up, I mean that is real Beethoven trick of throughout the middle years and he's already using when he was quite young and this was a tremendous surge of energy that you get in there and this was something that people already complained about Beethoven, it’s a kind of violence that he was doing.”