Letter From Beethoven to Johann Baptist Rupprecht About the Song "Merkenstein"


The letter states that he will set his poem to music with the greatest pleasure, that he will shortly deliver it to him personally, admitting that he does not know whether it will be celestial, since he is only earthly, and noting that he will however do his utmost to match his [Rupprecht's] exalted opinion of him

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