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Throughout the nineteenth century, Beethoven's works were upheld among even the greatest composers as the impossibly-high standard one should always try to strive to match, even if one could never succeed in doing so. [[Franz Schubert]] went into a kind of compositional paralysis after he heard a Beethoven symphony, believing much of his own work was no longer worth pursuing when something ''that'' great was out there. [[Richard Wagner]], whose ego was nearly as large as Germany itself and who would never hesitate to tell everyone how great he was, could only bring himself to proclaim that he was the ''successor'' to Beethoven, not Beethoven's equal or better.
His presence in pop culture is at least partially down to the fact that generations of children grew up reading ''[[Peanuts]]'' strips in which character Schroeder was an obsessive [[Loony Fan]] of Beethoven, originally as a means for cartoonist Charles Schulz to parody one of the first children's fads, the cult of Davy Crockett merchandise in the 1950s. According to the Beethoven Exhibit at the Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa, Schulz liked Mozart more, but decided that "Beethoven" was [[Rule
Beethoven [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|may have been an alien spy]]. Or possibly [[Time Lord/Beethoven and Other Alien Spies|a Time Lord]].
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