Music and Time Annotation << Back Triptych about Beethoven. Facets of Human Existence A.I. Demchenko The first essay in the Beethoven triptych examines those components of the content of his creative legacy that are not always in the fi eld of view of those writing about the great composer. These are life activity, which implies, first of all, images of creation, lyricism, addressed to various states of the inner world of man, and the sphere of various kinds of relaxation, in particular, which found its refraction in Beethoven's scherzos. Keywords: semantic guidelines of Beethoven's creativity, life activity, lyrics, relaxation. DOI: 10.25791/music.8.2025.1370 Pp. 03-13.