The composer Lee Bradshaw is staying in a hotel in Vienna across the street from Theatre an der Wien where Beethoven presented what would be his only opera, Fidelio.
“He was the Taylor Swift of 1806,” quips Bradshaw, a native of Melbourne, Australia, who looks like a cross between Gandalf and popstar James Bay. “And I think his Ninth Symphony is the greatest piece of music that has ever been written.”
