Abendlied unterm gestirntem Himmel (Evening song under the starry heaven), WoO 150, is a song for high voice and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1820. The work is a setting of a poem believed to be by Otto Heinrich von Loeben, who wrote it under the pseudonym H. Goeble. Theodore Albrecht summarizes the message of the song thus: it "describes the soul, after the sun has set, contemplating the starry heavens, longing to return there, and finally rising up to the heavenly light. The earthly witness realizes that his pilgrimage below will not last long, and that he too will soon soar above to his heavenly reward before God's throne."[1] Barry Cooper has called the song "one of the finest examples of Beethoven's combination of simplicity and profundity that is so characteristic of his late style."[2]