FTP, name this German writer who also composed the "Ode to Joy" set to music in Beethoven's 9th.
At the time of his death he was at work on the tragedy Demetrius, having already completed such works in that genre as Maria Stuart and The Bride from Messina.  His The Defection of Netherlands garnered him a university chair at Jena, though it was after moving to Weimar that he wrote William Tell.  The sympathetic criminal Karl Moor is the subject of his The Robbers and the eldest son of Phillip II is the subject of his Don Carlos.  However, his best known historical drama might be his life of Wallenstein.  FTP, name this German writer who also composed the "Ode to Joy" set to music in Beethoven's 9th.
At the time of his death he was at work on the tragedy Demetrius, having already completed such works in that genre as Maria Stuart and The Bride from Messina.  
Friedrich Schiller