fourth entry

• 1792, the French Revolution


• 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna in order to study with Haydn, financed by the Prince Elector of Cologne.


• Beethoven's lessons with haydn did not go well, because Haydn was a Court composer of the old school--the antithesis of Beethoven.


• When Beethoven performed his first three trios, Haydn liked least the one that Beethoven liked best, making the young composer suspect his teacher of jealousy.


• When an average musicain was performing, Beethoven often talked aloud or walked about the room or flipped the pages of his own score loudly enough for all to hear.


• Beethoven did not like any person or thing to bother or even interupped his performence.


• Baron von Zmeskall---Beethoven's most lasting friends.


• Beethoven often consistently condemned adn banished his closest friends, yet expected them to be available and utterly devoted to him a moment later.