Fritz Wunderlich Ludwig van Beethoven Adelaide

    아래의 베토벤이  Matthisson 에게 쓴 편지글을 보면 베토벤이 이 시에 얼마나 깊은 영감을 받고

    감정적으로 영향을 받았음을 보여주고 있다. 

Vienna, August 4, 1800.

MOST ESTEEMED FRIEND,--

You will receive with this one of my compositions published some years since, and yet, to my shame,

you probably have never heard of it. I cannot attempt to excuse myself, or to explain why I dedicated a work to you

which came direct from my heart, but never acquainted you with its existence, unless indeed in this way,

that at first I did not know where you lived, and partly also from diffidence, which led me to think I might have been

premature in dedicating a work to you before ascertaining that you approved of it.

Indeed, even now I send you "Adelaide" with a feeling of timidity. 

You know yourself what changes the lapse of some years brings forth in an artist who 

continues to make progress; the greater the advances we make in art, the less are we satisfied with our works

of an earlier date. My most ardent wish will be fulfilled if you are not dissatisfied with the manner

in which I have set your heavenly "Adelaide" to music, and are incited by it soon to compose a similar poem;

and if you do not consider my request too indiscreet, I would ask you to send it to me forthwith,

that I may exert all my energies to approach your lovely poetry in merit.

Pray regard the dedication as a token of the pleasure which your "Adelaide" conferred on me,

as well as of the appreciation and intense delight your poetry always has inspired, and always will inspire in me.

When playing "Adelaide," sometimes recall

Your sincere admirer,

BEETHOVEN.^[7]