He's got serious respect for Beethoven—like, he considers him a life mentor and basically treats his music as a philosophy. The guy is genuinely earnest and dedicated, but he can come across as intense and rigid. He doesn't really bend on his opinions, and there's something kind of. off about him socially.
For whatever reason, he really doesn't vibe with Mozart. Fans have noticed this tension between his reverence for Beethoven and his apparent aversion to Mozart, though the exact source of the friction isn't entirely clear.
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