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This letter is one of the most famous documents in the legacy of the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770--1827). Written in pencil, it is addressed to an unknown woman with whom Beethoven was apparently in a love relationship and to whom he refers at one point as his "Immortal Beloved." The dating is incomplete; there are merely notes stating "on the 6th of July" and "on the 7th ...
Facsimile of the first page of the letter addressed to "Immortal Beloved". The Immortal Beloved (German " Unsterbliche Geliebte ") is the addressee [1] of a love letter which composer Ludwig van Beethoven wrote on 6 or 7 July 1812 in Teplitz in what would be today Czech Republic. The unsent letter is written in pencil on 10 small pages.
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to K - you are suffering -Oh, wherever. I am, you are with me. I say to myself and to you, arrange. that I can live with you. what a life!!!! as it is!!!! without you - Persecuted by. the kindness of people here. and there, which I think - I want. to deserve just as little.
Discovered in Beethoven’s bedside table shortly after his death in 1827, these intimate letters to “meine unsterbliche Geliebte” – “my immortal beloved” – have been a source of speculation for the past two centuries. They have simultaneously shed light on who Beethoven was as a man and raised questions about his personal ...
The Letter to the Immortal Beloved. July 6, in the morning. My angel, my all, my very self - Only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours) - Not till tomorrow will my lodgings be definitely determined upon - what a useless waste of time - Why this deep sorrow when necessity speaks - can our love endure except through sacrifices ...
Beethoven’s Unsterbliche Geliebte, or Immortal Beloved. ‘ My angel, my all, my own self’. Written at the age of 41, Beethoven’s famous love letter reads as a breathless expression of despair and hope, of love and devotion for an unnamed woman, his Immortal Beloved, whose identity has sparked two centuries of curiosity, research and debate.
This letter is one of the most famous documents in the legacy of the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770--1827). Written in pencil, it is addressed to an unknown woman with whom Beethoven was apparently in a love relationship and to whom he refers at one point as his "Immortal Beloved." The dating is incomplete; there are merely notes stating "on the 6th of July" and "on the 7th ...
