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On February 25, Liszt left Lisbon and drove towards Gibraltar. Again Spain: Malaga, Valencia, Barcelona, ​​Granada. In late April, Liszt returned to France. On April 28, he wrote to Abbot Lamenne of Marseille: “In July I will go to Bonn to unveil the Beethoven monument (to which Liszt donated a large sum in 1839. - M.Z.), where the cantata that I wrote on this occasion will be executed ... When winter will come, I will again begin my service at the Weimar Court, which I attach great importance to. ” The Festkantate zur Enthüllung des Beethoven-Denkmals in Bonn mentioned in the letter “The Solemn Cantata for the Unveiling of the Beethoven Monument in Bonn” was composed on behalf of the committee for the construction of the monument to the words of the German writer, poet and historian of literature, professor of the University of Jena Oscar Ludwig Wörng Wörn Wolf Wolff;1799–1851). Interestingly, in the second part of his cantata, Liszt used the Andante cantabile from the B-dur Trio (op. 97) of Beethoven himself. The Solemn Cantata is the only Liszt work in this period that he independently instrumented, which testifies to the growth of his composer skill.