Cristina is from Argentina. She lives in a far away part of the country. In a ski resort in the Andes Mountains.

She is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, married and mother of three, and very very very much interested in Beethoven, personally and professionally.

Well, in Heiligenstadt, there are not only Beethoven's dwellings. When walking up Eroicagasse (yes, Heiligenstadt is a very Beethovenish place), suddenly you have to turn left, and enter a sort of alley, by a small brook. In October, at least, it was running really small, but this unimposing stream of water, is supposed to have been the brook by which Beethoven wrote part of the Pastoral Symphony. There is even an illustration in an almanac of the time, that pictures Beethoven working on the score of the Sixth in that place.

Well, the place has certainly changed. As soon as you exit the street into the Beethovengang, you are aware that it is part of a nice and expensive neighborhood. The small stream, runs down among beautiful trees and bushes, but it is evident that it is not a wild place anymore.

The path changes into a street going up and up towards the top of the Kahlenberg. Naturally you can also take a bus to the top. But in whatever way, to reach the top is a must. Beethoven did climb that mountain often, he knew what was up there for him. And just as he knew then, the view is simply breathtaking. It must have been more or less the same in our composer's time.

And then, down dozens of small lovely paths, towards Heiligenstadt again.