Venom - Raise The Dead (First Venom Studio Recording, 1980)

This pleasant trip was supposed to arouse in Beethoven a sense of exhaustion of his abilities at the Bonn court, and indeed at small courtyards in Germany. As it turned out, there was no one to compete with among virtuoso pianists: he could easily learn other people's tricks, and no one could adopt his style of play, since it consisted not so much in technique as in the way of musical thinking, original and daring. Meanwhile, he was deprived of the opportunity to give concerts, as it was appropriate for a pianist of his level. Beethoven’s duties in the chapel usually came down to accompanying the orchestra and choir. In the orchestra of the Bonn National Theater, which opened in 1789, Beethoven played the viola, which at that time could easily be done by a musician of the most modest abilities. And Beethoven’s composer genius, quite obvious to others, wasn’t in demand in Bonn:his salary was not paid for composing music.