Thus Leslie Howard writes, "Matthisson’s poem of love unfulfilled might have been written with Beethoven himself in mind, so closely does it conform to Beethoven’s life’s experience and his pessimism in matters of the heart: the poet wanders lonely in nature thinking of his unattainable love, consoled only by the thought of the future miraculous bloom upon his grave". Source: notes by Howard for his Hyperion recording of Liszt piano transcriptions of Beethoven's music; [1].
