Oh my dear, An Pluiméir Ceolmhar!
Don't let us discuss good taste here; let us have a look at German litetrary history. Schiller was coerced by his Duke to the carreer of regimental surgeon in his army - when S. couldn't stand it any more he deserted and turned to the profession he understood best: poet. His first drama, the Robbers, was a flaming accusation of tyranny. Through all his work runs the read string of liberty. That is why he is more beloved and esteemed by the common man than Goethe.
I don't know the two guys you are referring to in your post, but I'm sure Schiller is lots of classes better.
Naturally Schiller's poetry wasn't undisputed even in his lifetime; there are documents of literate people having fallen from their chairs under lots of laughter when reading his Poem of the Bell.
On the other side, your last remark in brackets is quite right. Hitler was a born Austrian and was naturalized in Germany at the end of the 20es; Beethoven was born in Bonn (former capital of the FR of Germany) and never naturalized in Austria.
In 1938, when the German Army occupied Austria, about a million of people assembled in Vienna to receive Hitler and shouted "Heil"; on May 8, 1945 the PoWs in Siberia took red-white-red armbands to show to the Russians, that they were not Germans but the poor innocent victims of Hitler. Bloody gang.
To address Herbert von Karajan as a German infantry band master is, nevertheless, a gross insult to this fine group of musicians.

Wilfried