Except that others have not always seen it like that. But come the Weimar years and it was t he turn of the right, describing in Der Tag how Beethoven would surely have admired Mussolini as he had Napoleon. All over a few pieces of music. That is our problem. Once music, any music, is released into the stratosphere, it floats freely.
Music needs no other context than the one in which it is played.
If that should happen to be a fume-filled rush hour on the North Circular, so be it.