Beethoven and Goethe meet at Teplice

Beethoven was advised again to visit Teplitz in 1812, and there he met Goethe. The health resort was a popular venue for wealthy bourgeois and European monarchs. Goethe wrote that Beethoven's talent amazed him but that he was an utterly untamed personality, not altogether wrong in finding the world detestable, though his attitude did not make it more enjoyable. Beethoven told his publishers Breitkopf and Härtel that Goethe delighted far too much in the court atmosphere, far more than was becoming in a poet. Following their meeting, Beethoven began a setting for choir and orchestra of Goethe's Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), Op. 112, completed in 1815. Goethe also travelled to Vienna in 1812, meeting his admirer Beethoven a second time, the composer who had set music to Egmont in 1810.