“Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”
Franz Grillparzer
Food for thought today
Happy Thanksgiving!!
From Wikipedia
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral.[1]
Grillparzer was 17 years of age when he first met Beethoven in Heiligenstadt, where he was staying with his mother in the same house as Beethoven.
He has left an account of how his mother would sit on the landing listening to Beethoven playing the piano. But one day Beethoven discovered this, flew into a rage and refused to play another note until the Grillparzers had returned to Vienna.
In 1823 Grillparzer was establishing a reputation as a playwright, and he and Beethoven discussed collaborating on an opera. The plans came to nothing.
By the time of Beethoven's death, Grillparzer was Austria's leading playwright. For Beethoven's funeral he wrote the eulogy to be declaimed as Beethoven's coffin was lowered into its grave.
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