:22:09
Now that the boy was delivered
to Ludwig, body and soul...
:22:13
the deaf genius began in earnest what
was to be his most tragic endeavor...
:22:18
to make his ward a great virtuoso.
:22:22
For five long years
this was his goal...
:22:26
and in those five years
Ludwig wrote nothing.
:22:29
Not the oratorio
he promised Metternich.
:22:31
Not the mass he promised
the London Philharmonic Society.
:22:34
Not the great symphony
he spoke of endlessly.
:22:38
Nothing.
:22:44
In Vienna they thought he was finished...
deaf, written-out.
:22:48
Rossini had performed
The Thieving Magpie...
:22:50
and Italian opera was all the rage.
:22:53
Beethoven was no longer performed.
:23:02
Karl!
:23:24
It's late.
:23:26
I'm sorry, sir.
:23:36
It's disgusting.
:23:38
Why does she disobey me? She knows
my bowel is in a terrible state.
:23:51
You're trying to poison me!