Coroner - When Angels Die

However, although the meeting was held without Beethoven’s music, they talked about an unprecedentedly difficult and expertly written cantata at the court and in the city. Moreover: since the ceremonies associated with the accession to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation of the new emperor, Leopold II, were not coming, Beethoven was ordered another cantata - this time the laudatory. The text was again written by Severin Averdonk, and these verses came out even more ridiculously than before (for example, the soprano arias sing about how God Jehovah looks at Germany ... from Olympus!), But the music turned out to be no less interesting than in the funeral cantata. True, strong and inspirational moments alternated here with clearly passing episodes, and the general tone was somewhat more detached - and no wonder, because Beethoven knew almost nothing about the personal qualities of the new emperor,who before his coronation lived for many years in Italy, being the Grand Duke of Tuscany.