Kiss - 100,000 Years

What Beethoven read at the time of his spiritual maturity can be partially judged by quotes from his early letters and the texts he put to music in the late 1780s - early 1790s. Beethoven quotes the dramas of Schiller and Shakespeare, citing Plutarch. Among the poets whose verses he chooses for his songs are Goethe, Friedrich von Mattison, Ludwig Hölti, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Glame, Gottfried August Burger. Beethoven’s idol, like many young men and women of his time, was Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, the author of sonorous odes and lyric poems, but for some reason their young composer did not dare to put on music. However, for the time being he also refrained from creatively touching Schiller's poetry. In adulthood, Beethoven admitted that Schiller, in his opinion, is much harder to put on music than Goethe,for he soars with thought to exorbitant heights, where it is almost impossible to keep up with him.