Like Perry wrote in his book, “With this hint from the most authoritative of all sources, the composer himself, we may easily trace, if not a strongly realistic, at least a suggestive reference in the music to that the most romantic drama by the greater of English play-writers.” The Tempest was composed by Shakespeare in his later years; Shakespeare’s will is included at the end of the work and is written in poetry. The protagonist of Shakespeare’s The Tempest lost the title of nobility, and was stranded on a desert island. But he occupies the desert island and subdues the political enemy. The justice triumphs over evil. Beethoven’s life was close to the protagonist. When Beethoven composed the sonata “Tempest”, his hearing was declining and