Especially, Beethoven’s Leonore No. 2 overture compared with its successor’s formal overtures such as W. A. Mozart’s overtures since the heavy construction of Leonore No. 2 overture. The correspondent of the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung. Leipzig offers the comments regarding Beethoven’s opera and his second overture on January 8, 1806, “…Up to now Beethoven has sacrificed beauty so many times for the new and strange; thus she characteristic of news and a certain originality in creative idea was expected from this first theatrical production of his — and it is exactly these qualities that are the least in evidence. Judged dispassionately and with an open mind, the whole is distinguishable neither by invention nor execution. The overture
