Sunday, August 10, 2008

Beethoven's secret love in Moonlight Sonata

Who is "Beethoven's secret love in Moonlight Sonata"?

-Countess Giulietta Guicciardi.

Countess Giulietta, at her 17, was Beethoven's pupil in 1801. Beethoven fell in love with her and dedicated Moonlight Sonata to her.

But his love was not over just with this great sonata.

"It is certain that Beethoven proposed marriage to Giulietta, and that she was inclined to accept. One of her parents was in favour of the match.

But the other - probably her father - forbade her to marry a man "without rank, fortune or permanent engagement; a man, too, of character and temperament so peculiar, and afflicted with the incipient stages of an infirmity which, if not arrested and cured, must deprive him of all hope of obtaining any high and remunerative official appointment and at length compel him to abandon his career as the great pianoforte virtuoso". -Thayer's Life of Beethoven-" (madaboutbeethoven.com)

Finally, Giulietta married Count Wenzel Robert Gallenberg in 1803.

Who is not "Beethoven's secret love in Moonlight Sonata"?
- Anne Finch, because that couldn't be possible. Anne was a 16th century countess.

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I can always feel passion of Beethoven's love to Giulietta when I listen to great Moonlight Sonata.

References:
http://www.madaboutbeethoven.com/pages/people_and_places/people_friends/biog_guicciardi.htm
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/finch/finch-anne.html


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