Beethoven’s Adelaide
Songs was not main or very important genre for Beethoven, but among them Adelaide is the most favored. The poet, Friedrich von Matthisson Friedrich von Matthisson (01.23.1761, Hohendodeleben, near Magdeburg – 03.12.1831, Wörlitz, Anhalt-Dessau) was a German poet. As a profession he graduated in philology at the University of Halle, later in 1812 he entered the service of the king …