Power - Warrior

The darkness gradually crawled over Beethoven’s soul, which he tried his best to resist, but there was almost nothing to grasp at him in life: he could not boast of any successes in 1806, there was still no money, his hearing worsened, so he already ceased to hide it (“May your deafness be no longer a secret, even in art,” he wrote among the sketches of Quartets, Op. 59), the beloved behaved evasively, and in addition to that unfortunate year, he lost his old friend, in the person of Prince Karl Likhnovsky, and his beloved brother, whom he could not forgive be his quick marriage. In addition to everything, Germany was humiliated and defeated, Prince Louis Ferdinand died, and the peace in Austria depended on the whims of Napoleon, whom Beethoven now perceived as a bloody tyrant.