Characters
- Ludwig van Beethoven – The famous composer. Note: In the original release, TSO refer to him as Ludwig von Beethoven. However, the reissue is corrected to van.
- Fate – The spirit of Fate
- Twist – Fate's son (as in "Twist of Fate").
- Mephistopheles – The devil
- Young Beethoven – Beethoven as a young man
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – (Another) famous composer
- Theresa – Beethoven's "immortal beloved" – Possibly either Countess Thérèse von Brunswick or Therese Malfatti
- Young Girl – An orphan of the streets
- The Muses – The spirits of artistic inspiration
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“Waxed-fleshed out-patients
Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
By being stupid or weak.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)