If your all time favorite music artist or actor/actress, vehemently disagreed with you politically on social media, would you block them?

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SomeMichGuy · M

Mine wouldn't.

He was violently opposed to a man he'd admired, until that man proclaimed himself Emperor.

rinkydinkydoink · M

@SomeMichGuy

Emperor, eh? 🤔

SomeMichGuy · M

@rinkydinkydoink Ludwig van Beethoven; admired Bonaparte until he proclaimed himself Emperor.

He was writing his Third Symphony in E-flat (Op. 55), and famously tore the title "Bonaparte" off the top of the score he was composing when he heard this occurred (in 1804). That's why it's called Eroica; in full:

Sinfonia Eroica ... composta per festeggiare il sovvenire di un grande Uomo ("Heroic Symphony, Composed to celebrate the memory of a great man").

The story in the Beethoven article in the Wikipedia quotes his secretary, Ries, telling of LvB's reaction to the news:

he broke into a rage and exclaimed, "So he is no more than a common mortal! Now, too, he will tread under foot all the rights of Man, indulge only his ambition; now he will think himself superior to all men, become a tyrant!" Beethoven went to the table, seized the top of the title-page, tore it in half and threw it on the floor. The page had to be recopied, and it was only now that the symphony received the title Sinfonia eroica.[25]

rinkydinkydoink · M

@SomeMichGuy

I love "trivia" like this. No shit - - - I was looking for the Best Comment button fruitlessly until I realized this wasn't my post.

SomeMichGuy · M

@rinkydinkydoink Well, thank you for the sentiment! I'm sure you have trivia for your own passions. 😊

rinkydinkydoink · M

@SomeMichGuy

I do but I doubt I could put pen to paper as well as you just did.

SomeMichGuy · M

@rinkydinkydoink ...well, thank you for noticing, and the very fine compliment. 😊😊😊