Savatage - Wishing Well

Only in 1801 he dared to tell his closest friends about his misfortune, who, we note, were not in Vienna at that time and, therefore, could not even accidentally divulge the secret entrusted to him. Beethoven wrote to Bonn to Franz Gerhard Wegeler and to the tiny town of Virba in Kurland (Latvia) - violinist and theologian Karl Amenda, whom he had close friends in 1799 when Amenda lived for several months in Vienna, working as a home teacher in the Constanta Mozart family. “You are not a Viennese friend, no! You are one of those people that the land of my homeland usually gives birth to, ”assured Beethoven Amenda, whom he managed to love as a brother for his kindness and mental subtlety. However, he never wrote such letters to any of the two siblings, and it is not known whether they were at least somehow aware of his ailment and confused mental state.