Robert Charles Howard - Beethoven's Walk lyrics

He came seeking solace to Heiligenstadt and walked alone by its crystal stream welcomed by songs the nightingale taught. The cheerful waters made Vienna seem a distant, cool and forbidding stage where few could embrace a pastoral dream. He dotted his sketchbook on every page with earthen tones born of peasant heart - (though fare rich enough for any age) . Then poured from the stream the fiddle part as winds sang impressions of birds in the dell - all choired together by the master's art. At Heiligenstadt Beethoven listened well and envisioned his golden 'Pastorale.'