Бетховен. Послание к Элизе

“For two hundred years, Message to Eliza has been one of the most popular pieces of music in the world. But who is this "Eliza", to whom did Beethoven dedicate his amazing music? asks the art writer Zinaida Worms. The son of a cook and a musician who did not have rich patrons, Beethoven achieved everything in his life himself. A terrible disease for the musician, deafness, turned him into a recluse. Only at the age of thirty-six did fate send him a mutual feeling, and neither class inequality nor social prejudices could prevent this love. The book by Z. Worms tells about the mysterious "Eliza", as well as about the life of the great composer in the era when Mozart and Haydn worked, when the glory of Napoleon thundered all over the world and faded away, when the first romantics began to create. In addition, the reader will find here the story of the creation of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March", also based on romantic relationships, and several other similar stories of the emergence of great masterpieces of art. Artist B.B. Protopopov