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Around 1802-1803, Beethoven wrote his 3rd symphony in the hope of drawing the attention of a man he idolised at the time as a figurehead of the French Revolution: the young First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte.
Beethoven never actually sent his symphony to Bonaparte and never went to Paris, because Napoleon crowned himself emperor before the symphony was completed, betraying Beethoven's ideals of equality for mankind.Now, what if Beethoven had finished the symphony in time to send it to Bonaparte long before the crowning?
What if he had been invited to Paris to be offered the position he dreamed of?
What if he had met, in fact, that man he considered to be the egery of a new era?What would have happened between them in those short months between their meeting and the Sacre, in 1804?
(Beethoven would beat me to a pulp for this, but fortunately for me he doesn't read French. Also he's dead. Pfew.)