Fates Warning - At Fates Hands

In the White Swan tavern, it was noisy in the evenings, but Beethoven even liked it now: if he asked the interlocutors, nobody was surprised at that. When the conversation concerned political issues, it was quite reasonable to pronounce your words directly into the neighbor’s ear. After the conspiracy of the "Viennese Jacobins" was revealed in the summer of 1794 and the subsequent execution of several revolutionaries, the whole of Vienna was flooded with secret informants. Some completely harmless burgher can doze peacefully at a nearby table, but then a scrupulous report will appear to the police - who spoke disapprovingly about Emperor Franz, about the defeats of the Austrian army, about the unprofitable peace concluded with the French last October ...