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.
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