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Immortal Beloved - Online Essay

Immortal Beloved

"My angel, my all, my very self--Only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours)…can our love endure except through sacrifices…"
These lines are from the "" letter, a document found among Beethoven's papers after his death. Throughout his life, Beethoven remained a bachelor. This letter is the only love letter he is known to have written. Its recipient is never named: Beethoven only calls her his "." Scholars' attempts to identify this woman sparked decades of controversy, and the mystery surrounding the letter has never been definitively solved. In fact, the 1995 film poses new solutions to the riddle.
The letter's mystery is compounded by Beethoven's omission of the year ...

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Or her cousin, the widowed Countess Joshphine Deym? Or could she have been Antonie Brentano, the wife of one of Beethoven's friends, as Maynard Solomon suggested.
Even once candidates are proposed, the question remains: why was this letter in Beethoven's possession? Did he never send it, or was it returned to him? Although the debates continue, the answers to the riddle of the may have followed Beethoven to his grave. In the history of music, no "riddle", as Maynard Solomon in Beethoven calls it, has been questioned as much as that of the Beethoven's own "". Many books have been written that try to give an answer to who this master of disguise is. Equally being questioned is why the never came forth and claimed herself as Beethoven's treasure. The interest in the letter is not merely the fact that Beethoven was so deeply attached to a women but the absence of a name and year on his one and only true love letter that he ever wrote. The question aroused by this letter is ...

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Added: 11/12/2006 05:46:08 PM
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