In this short scene, the narrator describes the piano sonata that Beethoven wrote during his "lost period," a period in which he lost his sense of fighting and his "eccentric lyricism of sweet dreams." The first movement is full of "in abundant affection," and the narrator notes that it is one of Beethoven's last three piano sonatas. The piano player complains that he has not yet finished the work, but the narrator assures him that he will soon.