Song in F minor: "Elegie auf den Tod eines Pudels"; "Stirb immerhin, es welken ja so viele der Freuden" (c. 1787)

Biamonti 14, WoO 110
A work to add to the expanding list of dog-death songs along with that very early Ives song. Works like this encourages one to review the oft-argued contention that emotion brings forth music. It is multiple verses in the minor, followed by a verse in the major. Each verse takes two stanzas of the poem and sets them as an ABA. The verse in the major is a variant of that of the minor. From this the curious musicologist could write an article on the question of Beethoven's belief in the existence of poodle heaven.