Deep Purple - The Painter

Complaints about the arbitrariness of censors are one of the leitmotifs of conversations in Beethoven’s conversation notebooks. In the 12th notebook (April 1820), Bernard wrote: “The local censors do not obey the laws, they cross out at random so as not to answer for anything. We have no censorship law. ” The publisher Moritz Schlesinger, who arrived from Vienna in September 1825 from abroad, was surprised in the 94th speaking book to see how strict the censorship restrictions are in Austria than in Prussia: “You cannot even read Hoffmann’s inspired“ Fantastic Novels ”here, or what to print. “Fantasy in Austria is a forbidden and dangerous thing.” Playwrights and poets were especially afflicted. The grillparcer envied Beethoven: “The musicians have no censorship!” (Which was not entirely true), and Kuffner argued: “Words are constrained, but sounds, powerful spokesmen for the meaning of words, are still free!”