The article uses the material of the autograph "Ode to Beethoven" to study the peculiarities of Mandelstam's work on the text of this poem. The motive composition of the final version and the cultural contexts that participate in the formation of the semantics of the poem are also taken into account.
In the article we single out stylistic peculiarities of dialogue in G. R. Derzhavin’s poetry, the use of stylistically dissimilar speech elements, purposeful slide in style, uncharacteristic of the classic ode genre.