- Update on 11/15:
In "letters to the editor", a reader pointed out that the famous quotation "Muss es sein? Es muss sein!" (Must it be? It must be!) was not written in the score of the Opus 110 piano sonata. Instead, it was Opus 135, Beethoven's last string quartet.
And interestingly enough, according to Karl-Heinz Kihlbert, curator of the Beethoven Archives in the Staatsbibliothek and considered perhaps the foremost Beethoven expert in the world, this off-cited quote, far from being a profound philosophical pronouncement on life, is actually part of an exchange he had with his landlady who wanted to raise his rent.
moab