Beethoven's immortal beloved : solving the mystery / Edward Walden ; introduction by William Meredith.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 145 pages, [10] pages of plates)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780810877740
- 0810877740
- 1282975404
- 9781282975408
- 9786612975400
- 6612975407
- 780.92 B 22
- ML410.B4
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) and index.
Beethoven's letter to the Immortal Beloved -- The case for Bettina -- Beethoven and Bettina after 1812 -- The mysterious missing letters -- The Teplitz letter and the Ilius manuscript -- Bettina's concept of love -- The Beethoven-Bettina romance -- Beethoven the poet -- The tarnishing of Bettina's reputation -- Beethoven's Goethe songs -- A modern analysis -- The Antonie theory -- Synopsis and conclusion.
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In 1812, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote three letters to an unnamed woman, whom he called "Immortal Beloved." The letters were discovered after Beethoven's death and ever since their discovery, there has been speculation regarding whom that Immortal Beloved might have been. In Beethoven's Immortal Beloved: Solving the Mystery, Edward Walden carefully and meticulously presents his case that the woman who Beethoven loved was Bettina Brentano, an artistic and talented musician in her own right. Setting the foundation for his argument, Walden begins the book with a general historical and sequential n.
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