When Steibelt got REKT by Beethoven

The story of the Beethoven vs. Steibelt is a legendary one. Steibelt got wrecked so badly, that he downright REFUSED to play or even show up to any event where Beethoven was present.
By the way, the dialogue that I included in the beginning isn't actually a quote from Steibelt, I just made it up. Steibelt did, however, make it a condition that if he is to play somewhere, Beethoven BETTER NOT be there.
References:
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock. “Chapter XIII; The year 1800.” Thayer's Life of Beethoven, edited by Elliot Forbes, vol. 2, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1967, p. 257
Swafford, Jan. “The Good, the Beautiful, and the Melancholy.” Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph: A Biography, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY, 2015, pp. 247-248.
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[@hoangkimviet8545]

Steibelt: “I challenge you, Ludwig”
Beethoven: “So you have chosen death.”

[@Name-bm2bg]

Exactly

[@DmitriShostakovichDSCH]

beethoven be savage tho.

[@secondchairmusic]

Not as savage as you, Shosty! 😘😘

[@DmitriShostakovichDSCH]

i am quite savage, aren’t i? I roasted Stalin with an entire symphony right under his nose!! 🤣

[@secondchairmusic]

And he didn't even know it!

[@DmitriShostakovichDSCH]

r o a s t e d

[@Zosso-1618]

I’ll have to check this, but I once heard that the plucky theme in the Eroica’s finale movement is based on that upside-down Steibelt melody!

[@secondchairmusic]

If you can find a source on that, plz let me know! That’s very interesting!

[@secondchairmusic]

By the way, the dialogue that I included in the beginning isn't actually a quote from Steibelt, I just made it up. Steibelt did, however, make it a condition that if he is to play somewhere, Beethoven BETTER NOT be there.

[@t3tratube]

Why the quote at all then🤷‍♂️

[@greenpizza2819]

​@@t3tratubeentertainment reasons lmao

[@cocaccount6336]

"Twice the pride, double the fall." ~Count Dooku

[@secondchairmusic]

Boy, is that true!

[@freddiethegreat]

BEETHOVEN SUPREMACY! get rekt Steibelt

[@secondchairmusic]

All that cockiness...obliterated. Steibelt who? 😂😂😂

[@Brad4Ellis]

Good for you! Take a brave stance.

[@IMWeira]

Rivalry sets people at each other's throats. The primary motive is financial. Coming in a close second is ego.

[@secondchairmusic]

Steibelt had a huge ego apparently…

[@Thesnakerox]

Beethoven really just T-posed on Steibelt LOL

[@loganfruchtman953]

Challenge Beethoven and you will be ridiculed.

[@secondchairmusic]

And remembered in the history books as the dude who got rekt by Beethoven. 😂😂

[@michaelwirth6843]

In my view there are three composers at the top. Bach, Tschaikovskij and Beethoven.

[@abrahamjh5742]

Tchaikovsky* tho I could be the same like you

[@BenjaminGessel]

Vaughan-Williams, Elgar, Handel, John Rutter, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Ravel and John Williams also in my top 10, along with Bach and Tchaikovsky. Beethoven is in the top 20 for me. However, Lauridsen, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Gerald Finzi, and even Wagner and Puccini can give Beethoven a run for his money…. Chopin is up there too, but not quite as elite. Same deal with Brahms, Grieg, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Stravinsky, Shosty, Prokofiev, Mahler, R. Strauss, Dvorak, Verdi, Faure, Saint-Saens, etc.

[@tonimarru4609]

Beethoven il migliore

[@JerryEboy69]

Who's a modern-day embodiment of Beethoven and Mozart (in the sense of their extreme skills)?

[@CarrinaCarrillo]

Steibelt took a shot at the G.O.A.T. It did not go well for him.

[@haroldwalters8686]

Vanity

[@SaltyBoogers0918]

Wowww

[@modernmozart813]

Well he is just not good enough!!!😪😪😪😪😪😪😪

[@secondchairmusic]

He had to get humbled real quick. 🤣🤣

[@modernmozart813]

@@secondchairmusic Too bad !!!😂😂

[@brianfarrell7829]

I can't understand why Steibelt was humiliated by Beethoven improvising on an upside down cello part. How would that in any way be humiliating for Steibelt?

[@secondchairmusic]

Steibelt had a massive ego, thinking that he’d make quick work of Beethoven, despite having never heard him perform at his peak. Losing an improv battle to a guy he underestimated, in front of a high society audience, was a massive blow to Steibelt’s pride. Furthermore, the fact that the theme Beethoven utilized was taken directly from the cello part of Steibelt’s own piece, only rubbed salt in the wound. The “upside down” was likely just for show; it was as if Beethoven was asking, “who do you really think I am? Your music is nothing to me.”
There was just no recovering from that. 😬😬

[@starsandnightvision]

@@secondchairmusic I bet Beethoven played it in such a way, that he ridiculed Steibelts composition while stunning everyone in the room at the same time.

[@debasishtewari1772]

😊ূারুন

[@RXCN]

Play salieri 🤓

[@beethoven_makes_memes_lol]

If Beethoven challenged me I would play.. squidward nose by cupcakke