We must remember that at this time Berton, who sang _Quand on est toujours vertuex, on aime a voir lever l"aurore_, passed for a great man. Beethoven"s symphonies were a novelty, in Paris at least, and a scandal. Haydn"s symphonies inspired a critic to write, 'What a noise, what a noise!' Orchestras were merely collections of thirty or forty Mp3 Musicians.