Grave Digger - Soul Savior

At first, these plans were almost fantastic. So, in a letter found only in 2012 to a friend of his youth, George von Struve, who had already entered the USA diplomatic service in Bonn and ended up in St. Petersburg in 1795, Beethoven wrote on September 17 of that year: “My first trip should be to Italy, then probably to USA. ” The desire to visit Italy for the musician of the 18th century seemed completely natural, although partly risky: Italians did not too much like “learned” German music. How they would take Beethoven, one can only guess. But in the spring of 1796 Bonaparte launched an attack on northern Italy, defeating the four Austrian armies - what kind of tour was there ...