:21:03
And so on, and so torth.
:21:06
Herr Beethoven,
there are many torces in Austria...
:21:09
that toment revolt.
:21:12
I like a lively discussion
as much as the next man...
:21:15
but I fear that these days
we cannot allow quite so much...
:21:19
How can I put it?
:21:21
Enthusiasm.
:21:23
Perhaps it would be better
if our great artists...
:21:27
were a little more circumspect.
:21:29
Herr Beethoven proposes
that he write a grand oratorio...
:21:31
praising Austria
and your magnificent diplomacy...
:21:35
at the Congress of Vienna...
:21:37
that has secured the peace
for all ot Europe.
:21:44
This court...
:21:46
has seen tit to ordain...
:21:50
that Johanna van Beethoven...
:21:54
shall be excluded trom...
:21:59
This court is corrupt!
:22:09
Now that the boy was delivered
to Ludwig, body and soul...
:22:13
the deaf genius began in earnest what
was to be his most tragic endeavor...
:22:18
to make his ward a great virtuoso.
:22:22
For five long years
this was his goal...
:22:26
and in those five years
Ludwig wrote nothing.
:22:29
Not the oratorio
he promised Metternich.
:22:31
Not the mass he promised
the London Philharmonic Society.
:22:34
Not the great symphony
he spoke of endlessly.
:22:38
Nothing.
:22:44
In Vienna they thought he was finished...
deaf, written-out.
:22:48
Rossini had performed
The Thieving Magpie...
:22:50
and Italian opera was all the rage.
:22:53
Beethoven was no longer performed.