Beethoven’s Last Night Lyrics

From the shadows a beautiful spirit, fate, and her deformed dwarf son, twist, emerge to inform Beethoven of what he has already deeply suspected, that this is to be his last night on earth. they are accompanied by numerous spirits and ghosts from his past.

Midnight

(twist)

and in the dark he sits alone
To watch his final hours bleeding
While unconcerned upon the wall
The clock it ticks away the timeno need for words for in the dark
All words have long since lost their meaning
Still when they whisper in his ear
He tries to read between the lineswhat i see in the night
What i feel in your heart
All your dreams all your lies
Can you tell them apartsee the hands on the clock
Are you watching them turn
For your candle is quite low
We’ve been watching it burndo you lie here awake
As the shadows look on
Should they cry for your sake
Should you sleep in their armsfor the shadows see all
And they rarely forget
Every dream that you’ve had
Every act you regret

On a late night in the spring of 1827 the city of Vienna is experiencing the largest lightning storm in its long history. Within a large disheveled room, Ludwig Von Beethoven is slumped over his piano and on the piano sits the just completed manuscript for his tenth symphony. It is his final, and he is certain, his greatest work.

Since the time when ra and isis
Raised the sphinx out of the sand
And apollo dreamed athena
And men began to understandthat when darkness folds on darkness
In the restless tides of night
And lightning raises shadows
And for moments gives them lifeit’s been said by those who ponder
That it surely is a sign
That a life touched by the stars
Is now running out of timeand that somewhere in that darkness
In the heart of that great storm
The world returns a soul
That the gods caused to be bornand this was such a storm
The kind one rarely sees in life
For in a room now filled with shadows
The great Beethoven was spending
His last night

Characters

• Ludwig Von Beethoven - the maestro himself on the last night of his life
  

  Ludwig Van Beethoven was a musical genius who created symphonies and sonatas of intense passion and emotion, leading the way into the Classical Era of music

• Theresa - the legendary, “immortal beloved.” the great love of his life.
  

• Young girl - an orphan, approximately six years old
  

• Young Beethoven - the composer as a young man
  

• Fate - the spirit of fate. she is a young beautiful woman.
• Twist - fate’s hunchback dwarf son. mischievous but not malicious
• Mozart - wolfgang amadeus himself
  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (baptized Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His output of over 600 compositions includes works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of lyrics, symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire

• The Muses - voices of artistic inspiration
• Mephistopheles - the devil himself . evil with a seductive charm and flair.
  

  Mephistopheles (also Mephistophilus, Mephistophilis, Mephostopheles, Mephisto and variants) is a name given to a devil or demon in the Faust legend, and in the 1527 Praxis Magia Faustiana attributed to Faust.The name is associated with the Faust legend of a scholar who wagered his soul against the devil being able to make Faust wish to live, even for a moment, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust. The name appears in the late 16th century Faust chapbooks. In the 1725 version which was read by Goethe, Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust in a wood outside Wittenberg. The name Mephistophiles already appears in the 1527 Praxis Magia Faustiana, printed in Passau, alongside pseudo-Hebrew text. It is best explained as a purposedly obscure pseudo-Greek or pseudo-Hebrew formation of Renaissance magic.