La Fantasía para Piano, Orquesta y Coro, Opus 80, de Ludwig van Beethoven es una obra excepcional. La grandiosidad de sus acordes y sus melodías nos adelantan lo que luego será el último Movimiento de la Novena Sinfonía, la Sinfonía Coral, Opus 125, documento en el que el Espíritu Absoluto alcanza el equilibrio y la perfección infinitos. Es una prueba más de la existencia de Dios, sea el que sea.

The portrait of Beethoven, painted by Joseph Carl Stieler in 1819-20, is one of the best known of the many portraits, which were painted of the composer. It was acquired by the brother of Louis Spohr at a raffle run by the Art Association of Brunswick. He valued the portrait highly because Stieler had assured him, when they had met at their friend Kaulbach's house in Munich, that he was the only painter to whom Beethoven had allowed sittings - and that, only at the specific wish of the composer's friends and patrons, the Brentanos. It is understood to be a very good likeness; only the hands had to be painted from memory, as Beethoven could not be persuaded to sit any longer.