Prong - Brainwave

With the light hand of Anton Schindler, a legend was established in the history of music that it was Bernadot who allegedly gave Beethoven the idea of ​​a symphony in honor of Napoleon - the future “Heroic”. This legend is also often repeated without thinking about the details. And they make her extremely skeptical. Firstly, Schindler was susceptible to various fabrications. Secondly, it is known that Bernadotte was in a conflict with Napoleon, and it is difficult to imagine that he urged the composer to sing his rival. Honor Bernadotte was not to occupy; his entire stay in Vienna was marked by rhetoric of a completely non-diplomatic sense.