Sacred Reich - Death Squad

The Ninth Symphony was composed against everything. This is its essential difference from the "Heroic Symphony", which arose on the crest of an ascending historical era, and from the Fifth Symphony, which absorbed the harsh and furious spirit of the times of wars and victories. In the 1820s, all this was perceived as a glorious, but already irrevocably distant past. It was clear to thinking contemporaries that the political reaction that came was a long time. The locks “broke through” only in March 1848, when a revolution began in Austria, which, however, was brutally suppressed, but the odious 74-year-old Chancellor Metternich was dismissed, and the eighteen-year-old Emperor Franz Joseph, ascended the throne, declaring his intention to carry out reforms .