When Beethoven spoke, many musicians had already started reading the scores, and many hummed the tune.
The tune they hummed was precisely the one Anning was most familiar with—the melody of the Marseillaise.
Beethoven had somehow managed to arrange and orchestrate the piece in just one afternoon, after merely hearing Anning hum the main melody once.
What kind of divine speed was this?
Forget it, one cannot judge a musical sage by common standards.
By this time, the singers had also started reciting the lyrics. Anning listened and couldn't help feeling that something was off about the lyrics.
Anning remembered that the original lyrics of the Marseillaise were supposed to be about the enemy's invasion and the freedom of the homeland being on the brink; citizens should take up arms, defend the country, and defend freedom, and the like.
The Marseillaise shouldn't have the phrase "the great leader calls us to arms," should it?
