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Updated: May 26, 2025
Malfatti Rohrenbach, nephew of the renowned physician who was so prominent in Beethoven's last illness, lately related to me in Vienna as follows: Beethoven went to pay a visit to young Frau Thérèse, Baroness Drossdick, at Mödling, but not finding her at home, he tore a sheet of music-paper out of a book, and wrote some music to a verse of Matthisson's, and on the other side, inscribed, in large letters, "To my dear Thérèse."
As the shades of evening closed around the hill, and the bells of twenty dining-tables ascended to us through the still air, I thought of Gray's curfew of that glimmering Stoke-Pogis landscape that faded into immortality on his sight. I thought of Matthisson's "Elegy" on this forlorn old dandy of a castle.
Echoes, in the angels' psalms, 'Sister spirit! hail to thee!" "How musically those lines flow! Are they Matthisson's!" "Yes; and they do indeed flow musically. I wish I had his poems here. I should like to read to you his Elegy on the Ruins of an Ancient Castle. It is an imitation of Gray's Elegy. You have been at Baden-Baden? "Yes; last summer." "And have not forgotten " "The old castle?
Of course not. What a magnificent ruin it is!" "That is the scene of Matthisson's Poem, andseems to have filled the melancholy bard with more than wonted inspiration." "I should like very much to see the poem, I remember that old ruin with so much delight." "I am sorry I have not a translation of it for you. Instead of it I will give you a sweet and mournful poem from Salis.
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