单选题
Signs of deafness bad given him great anxiety as
early as 1778. For a long time he successfully concealed it from all but his
mast intimate friends. The touching document addressed to his brothers in 1802,
and known as his "Will" should be read in its entirety. He reproached men for
their injustice in thinking and calling him pugnacious, stubborn, and
misanthropical when they did not know that for six years he had suffered from an
incurable condition aggravated by incompetent doctors. He dwelled upon his
delight in human society from which he had had so early to isolate himself, but
the thought of which now filled him with dread as it made 14ira realize his
loss, not in music — but in all finer interchange of ideas. He requested that
after his death his present doctor shall be asked to describe his illness and to
{{U}}append{{/U}} it to his document in order that at least then the world might be
as far as possible reconciled with him. He left his brothers property, such as
it was, if more conventional than the rest of the document.
During the last twelve years of his life, his nephew was the cause of most of
his anxiety and distress. His brother, Kaspar Karl died in 1815, leaving a widow
and a son The boy turned out utterly unworthy of his uncle's persistent devotion
and gave him every cause for anxiety. He failed in all his examinations,
including an attempt to learn some trade in the polytechnic school, whereupon he
fell into the hands of the police for at- tempting suicide, and after being
expelled from Vienna, joined the army. Beethoven's utterly simple nature could
neither educate nor understand a human being who was not possessed by the wish
to do his best. His nature was passionately affectionate, and he has suffered
all his life from the want of a natural outlet for it. He had often been deeply
in love and made no secret of it; there was no one that was not honorable and
respected by society as showing the truthfulness and self-control of a great
man. Beethoven's orthodoxy in such matters has provoked the smiles of
Philistines, especially when it showed itself in his objections to Mozart, Don
Giovanni and the grounds for selecting the subject of Fidelio for his own opera.
The last thing that Philistines will never understand is that {{U}}genius is far
too independent of convention to abuse it{{/U}}; and Beethoven's life, with all
its mistakes, its grotesqueness, and its pathos, is as far beyond the shafts of
Philistine wit as his art.
单选题
The sentence "genius is far too independent of convention to abuse it"
implies that ______.
A. an artist does not understand conventional morality
B.Philistines expect geniuses to be morally conventional
C. Beethoven lived within a conventional moral code