Beethoven Immortal Beloved Letters

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The candidates for Beethoven’s Immortal Beloved are his two known lovers listed above, Josephine being the favorite choice, Antonie Brentano (a married woman whose husband was a friend to Beethoven) and Countess Terez Brunswick (Josephine’s sister). The likely reason Beethoven never married is that all of these women were out of the reach of his social class. Perhaps the reason that he never married after the Immortal Beloved letters is that his Immortal Beloved was unattainable. Whatever the case may be, Beethoven never did settle down. He spent much of his later life engaged in a fierce custody battle over his nephew against a sister-in-law who was decidedly unfit and a known thief. He also dealt with much depression over his hearing loss. He died as he lived — a bachelor with a string of love letters in his wake.

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Beethoven’s Immortal Beloved Letters

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