I saw this post more than hour ago. I started by searching more on Beethoven online. The moment I started the search I knew I wasn't going to be able to say anything of value to the discussion and definitely not anything that'll make a man change his mind.

Gave up in frustration and moved onto another post and made a relevant comment there. After that I went to Beethoven's Wikipedia page and started reading took me some time to cover a substantially relevant portion of it. Still gained nothing in terms of forming an informed opinion myself.

Read few other posts and made a few comments and again came back to Beethoven. My mind wasn't simply ready to drop it. I watched this video:

-in order to understand what Beethoven's compositions were like. After checking out the video for till around 22 minute mark without success.

To vent the building up frustration read another post and made another comment. Now that my mind was a bit more focused I decided to write about what I did for the last hour and a half in order get to some semblance of what Beethoven's symphonies and his work mean to the music world. As you can see I failed and this comment is a pretty much the documentation of the process of my failure.