Confused about what that meant, Haydn replied, “That is true, it is not yet a Creation, and I very much doubt whether it will ever succeed in being.” And they took their leave, both of them baffled and annoyed.3 If Haydn’s reply to Beethoven’s attempted compliment meant anything, it was not the absurd statement that Prometheus could never turn into a Creation but that its composer would never rise to a Creation. Haydn kept up with what Beethoven was putting out, and he could not have liked much of what he heard.
I dont understand what happened
