Beethoven's 10th!

[Peter]

I haven't heard about a requiem, but given how well he wrote Missa Solemnis, I can imagine a requiem by him would have been quite something.

Towards the end of his life he intended to write mainly sacred music - 3 more movements were planned for the Missa Solemnis, another Mass, a Requiem, an Oratorio based on Saul. An overture based on B-A-C-H was also planned, but the last music he was actually working on when he died was a string quintet.

[AeolianHarp]

Beautiful piece - it's a memorial really for Baron Johann Baptist von Pasqualati, whose wife Eleonore had died three years earlier at the early age of 24.

How touching. Wasn't this the Baron in whose house Beethoven made a hole in the wall?

[AeolianHarp]

Towards the end of his life he intended to write mainly sacred music - 3 more movements were planned for the Missa Solemnis, another Mass, a Requiem, an Oratorio based on Saul. An overture based on B-A-C-H was also planned, but the last music he was actually working on when he died was a string quintet.

Did he say that was his intention? Not finished reading all his letters yet.

[AeolianHarp]

Here's a you tube video with the lyrics in German.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7LyNefn0fM

[Peter]

How touching. Wasn't this the Baron in whose house Beethoven made a hole in the wall?

The Pasqualati house was owned in equal shares by four of the children of Johann Benedikt Pasqualati - by the time Beethoven moved back in 1810, Johann Baptist Pasqualati had sold his share and Beethoven's landlords were Peter Von Leber and his wife Josepha (the sister of Johann Baptist).

[Peter]

Did he say that was his intention? Not finished reading all his letters yet.

I can't recall if it's in the letters, I think it is in the Tagebuch.