Paradise Lost - Take Me Down

“On Tuesday afternoon, I saw Beethoven again after a long break because he was sick, and that really bothered us. He suddenly started talking about his poor health and said that someday an attack of colic would kill him. I spoke directly to his ear: if only this would happen very soon. He answered: the one who does not know how to die is pathetic! “I knew this as a fifteen-year-old boy.” However, he noted, “I have done very little for art.” I exclaimed self-willedly: then you can die even now! But these few words really upset me, or rather, the thought that he could die soon. His new work, “Hope” from Urania Tidge with an introductory recitative, is divine. When Nanni and I sang it and played, both were absolutely delighted and felt in heaven! ”