I appreciate your work on these two music figures, @honeydue. Although I had read about the life and death of the singer Kurt Covain, you do a pretty complete account.
Now, I'm more interested in Beethoven, of greater transcendence as a musician, undoubtedly. I don't remember who I heard or read an interpretation of the possible meaning of the famous leitmotiv of his most widespread symphony, No. 5 (the "fifth", he is told), which associated it with death's knocking on the door. With this reference I want to allude to the conscience possibly tormented by the threat of death that accompanied it. We find such a sensation in his master, Mozart, a musician also tormented in his own way. In the excellent film Amadeus that Milos Forman makes about Mozart's life, there is a moment in which a similar torment for death is suggested, when a ghostly presence knocks on his door, presaging the death of his father, which will give rise to his famous Requiem.
Thank you for your post, @honeydue. Greetings.