Beethoven: Freedom 4

Even if the same melody was held in one’s ears, the feeling it gave would inevitably differ greatly depending on the listener’s state of mind.

More than half of the people gathered in the music hall had never read the novel “Beethoven,” and had no interest in the novel itself.

On top of that, they were people who usually didn’t even listen to music all that much.

Then why had they come?

The answer was obvious.

Because the sun of the empire had risen there.

Of course, not everyone could enjoy the honor of meeting the emperor.

Some people who had a little more “priority” than others—those who had come to build social ties with the nobles—were there as well.

For them, music was merely entertainment.

No more than one of the talking points at the banquets that would be held all across the capital after the concert...