Beethoven's Rare Letter, It Was Written To Sell the Missa Solemnis

This is truly a beautiful report. And this letter is also beautiful, with a very legible signature featuring the typical zigzag stroke after the "n" and the wax seal that only ruined the margin. If one looks past the visual interest of the bowtie and the onyx ring (horror!!!) of the professor who looks like Rick Moranis playing Louis Tully in Ghostbusters 2, look at what a beautiful 19th-century alarm clock inside the glass case. I wonder whose it was!

Ok Armando ...but I say:

"A rare letter from 1823 signed by Ludwig Van Beethoven is shown during a press meeting at the Brahms Institute in Lübeck. In the message, Beethoven speaks of his illness and complains about the economic situation. According to the institute's experts, the six-page letter was reportedly written by the German composer specifically in an attempt to sell his "Missa Solemnis""

6 PAGES! To convince someone to buy a masterpiece ...? ..!

Who knows if he had modern means of "communication" ...you would say, he would have starved anyway! ... the life of a composer is hard

Well, there is no need for experts; the letter is also readable in Italian in volume 5 or 6 (I don't remember which one now) of Skira, in the transcription made by Luigi Della Croce from the analogous collection curated by Prof. Sieghard Brandenburg for the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. In what has survived of his correspondence, 4/5 of it consists of petitions to "place" works. Furthermore, in recent years, there is an increasing pathos regarding the situation of financial hardship-poverty-illness-isolation-misunderstanding. In short, B. speaks less and less about himself to project the "self" into his lived experience. Anyway, writing petitions was rather common. The incredible issue is this: we "modern" men firmly believe that ancient society was insensitive to the cries of geniuses, condemning them to spiritual beggary. Placing the Missa Solemnis! the greatest musical monument of the West! But are we so sure that in "civilized" (!) times like these we will find Lichnowskys, Rodolfos, or Kinskys? Or even patrons like the Medicis or Auroras Sanseverinos?

THANK YOU FOR THESE TESTIMONIES!!!

salutations

saverio