Great White - Doctor Me

All eminent musicians mourned the loss of the empress: Salieri, Paer, Peter von Winter. Joseph Weigl wrote in his autobiography that Maria Theresa showed kindness to the musicians, bordering on maternal care, and having lost it, they felt “like orphans”. Undoubtedly, old Haydn, to whom Maria Theresa treated with genuine reverence, was shocked by her death. Beethoven did not belong to the inner circle of the Empress, however, unlike Franz I, she was sympathetic to him. He dedicated the Septet op. twenty;the empress readily sang "Adelaide", and once he accompanied her himself. She was interested in his opera and, if such misfortune had not happened, she could have done something for him. Now the only person at court who appreciated Beethoven’s music was the young Archduke Rudolph, who had neither his own funds nor enough energy to become his patron.