Christ on the Mount of Olives (Beethoven) of the orchestra and chorus at its premiere. He panned Huber's libretto, saying, in an 1824 letter to the Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde, "Let us leave out of consideration "the value" of poems of this sort. We all know that allowances are to be made... so far as I am concerned, I would rather set Homer, Klopstock, Schiller to music. If they offer difficulties to overcome, "these immortal poets" at least are worthy of it." (Beethoven eventually did set Schiller to music in his monumental Ninth Symphony, nearly twenty years later.) The editors at Breitkopf & Härtel agreed with Beethoven's critical
The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs Best Novelette. The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" is a 1977 science fiction short story by Carter Scholz. It was first published in "Universe 7". Time travelling musicologists enter the mind of Ludwig van Beethoven so as to observe the creation of his ninth symphony, but their presence changes things in unexpected ways, and the symphony is lost. "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" was a finalist for the 1977 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1978 Hugo