8th entry

• Some people believe Fidelio to be Beethoven's noblest work but others think that it fails to justify the long hours and many years that Beethoven spent working on it.


• All agrees the Fidelio reveal s much about the mind of Beethoven.


• Fidelio, p.99-102


• Beethoven had face financial problem. Prince Lobkowitz, Archduke Rudolph, and a Prince Ferdinand Kinsky signed a long document promising Beethoven every thing he had asked and guaranteeing that each would contribute a share of the annuity.


• However, two of the helpers died and had gone bankrupt after a few years.


• Only Rudolph kept up his payments but he left with the rest of the imperial family on May 4, 1809. Because Austria took up arms against Napoleon.