Prong - Whose Fist Is This Anyway?

Of course, Beethoven was not a revolutionary, and the police had the mind not to prosecute him for "insulting Majesty." As a result, an informal community of opposition-minded friends has developed around Beethoven. The conversational notebooks during the creation of the Solemn Mass and the Ninth Symphony show how the interlocutors reached out to Beethoven, seeing in him not only a great composer, but also a person with great life experience, an original mind and the ability to judge events, things and people with fearless honesty. In Vienna then it was not a privilege for many.