Did Beethoven read Kant?

[Alynzia]

Hello board!

This may seem a bit trivial but in the BBC drama on Beethoven that supported the 'Beethoven Experience' season of his music, Beethoven quoted Kant. I was just wondering if there is any evidence that Beethoven had read any of Kant's books or perhaps his more popular papers in periodicals.

I know a lot of Kant's Enlightenment ideals were straight from Rousseau, although by dying at the turn of the nineteenth century he kind of missed the whole Romantic movement I think.

Alynzia.

[Peter]

Beethoven was indeed familiar with Kant (though he had refused Wegeler's invitation to a series of lectures on Kant in the 1790's) and he did quote him "The moral law within us and the starry sky above us!" appears in a conversation book of 1820.

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