Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, A production of iHeartRadio and Grim
Speaker 1: and Mild from Aaron Manky. Listener discretion advised. I weep
Speaker 1: when I think that you will probably not receive the
Speaker 1: first news of me until Saturday. As much as you
Speaker 1: love me, I love you even more deeply, But but
Speaker 1: never hide yourself from me. Good Night, As one bathing,
Speaker 1: I must go to sleep. Oh God, so near, so far?
Speaker 1: Is not our love a true heavenly edifice, but also
Speaker 1: firm like the firmament. This is a widely accepted translation
Speaker 1: of a piece of the second part of Beethoven's famous
Speaker 1: Immortal Beloved Letter. This portion, in particular, weaves together passionate
Speaker 1: language and specific references in a way that provides context clues, and,
Speaker 1: almost two centuries later, still Bill Spark's debates between musicologists, historians,
Speaker 1: and ardent Beethoven aficionados. In the spirit of classic sonata form,
Speaker 1: Let's do a quick recap of what we covered in
Speaker 1: part one. The Immortal Beloved Letter was found in Beethoven's
Speaker 1: Vienna estate after he died in eighteen twenty seven, and
Speaker 1: published in eighteen forty by his secretary, who likely misdated
Speaker 1: the letter and misidentified its romantic mark. Further research showed
Speaker 1: that Beethoven almost certainly wrote the letter in eighteen twelve,
Speaker 1: when he was in the Austrian resort town of Taplets.
Speaker 1: Before arriving there, he was in Prague and probably saw
Speaker 1: his immortal beloved for one possibly steamy night. He also
Speaker 1: must have had an inkling she was headed to Carlsbad,
Speaker 1: another Spa town. This all led several scholars, especially in
Speaker 1: the US, to believe that the immortal beloved was Antony Brentano.
Speaker 1: Her whereabouts lined up, But this claim raised questions about
Speaker 1: Beethoven's morals and patterns of both falling for unattainable women
Speaker 1: and ingratiating himself with prominent families. Those behavioral patterns all
Speaker 1: factor into the case for the other most widely believed
Speaker 1: immortal beloved candidate, Countess Josephine von Brunswick. Just about all
Speaker 1: biographers seem to agree that Beethoven's love for Josephine surpassed
Speaker 1: all others, But does that mean beyond a doubt she
Speaker 1: was the muse of his soulful but perplexing letter. Yet again,
Speaker 1: the potential links between Beethoven's personal life and his work
Speaker 1: are too compelling to ignore, for example, what we're listening
Speaker 1: to now. A composition for solo piano titled Andante Favori
Speaker 1: was originally a movement for a full sonata before Beethoven
Speaker 1: pulled it out to be a standalone piece on its own.
Speaker 1: It was purportedly intended to be a declaration of love
Speaker 1: to Josephine, and one that some musicologists claim directly connects
Speaker 1: to other works in Beethoven's repertoire, as well as to
Speaker 1: that all important letter that stirred up the eternally beguiling
Speaker 1: story of his immortal beloved. I'm Danas Schwartz and this
Speaker 1: is noble blood. In seventeen ninety nine, the Brunswick sisters
Speaker 1: went on an exciting trip to Vienna, where Teres and
Speaker 1: Josephine both took music lessons from Bethos. The twenty eight
Speaker 1: year old composer already had an illustrious reputation by then, and,
Speaker 1: according to Therese's memoirs, became so fond of her and
Speaker 1: her sister that he came every day to teach them
Speaker 1: for the rest of their stay. Later, he jointly dedicated
Speaker 1: the work six variations on his iicdank Dine for four
Speaker 1: hands to both of them. A highly motivating factor in
Speaker 1: Beethoven's wanting to teach the two Brunswick sisters for free,
Speaker 1: no less was that he supposedly became infatuated with the
Speaker 1: twenty year old Josephine right away. It's largely accepted that
Speaker 1: Beethoven wrote and unofficially dedicated multiple works to Josephine. He
Speaker 1: likely would have officially dedicated many pieces in published form
Speaker 1: to her if not for the sizeable obstacles standing in
Speaker 1: the way of their possible romance. A monument mental issue
Speaker 1: was social class. The Brunsvicks, who by European nobility standards
Speaker 1: were far from the most prominent or powerful, were still
Speaker 1: reportedly firmly against Josephine marrying a commoner, even if that
Speaker 1: commoner was the Beethoven, an already renowned composer and sought
Speaker 1: after teacher. So tragically for Beethoven, although Josephine was reportedly
Speaker 1: his type to a tea incredibly beautiful, engaging, musically talented,
Speaker 1: her mother set her up with someone in Vienna whom
Speaker 1: she saw as more suitably high class, a man named
Speaker 1: Joseph Count Dame. Despite Josephine being much younger than the Count,
Speaker 1: and perhaps being initially ordered into the marriage. By many accounts,
Speaker 1: the relationship turned into a relatively happy one. According to
Speaker 1: some sources, Betooven was disheartened, but his relationship with Josephine
Speaker 1: did not end. He remained close with the Brunswicks and
Speaker 1: kept giving Josephine music lessons for years. Beethoven even established
Speaker 1: a close friendship with Count Dame, which makes some of
Speaker 1: Beethoven's true intentions and romantic feelings a little tricky to
Speaker 1: infer during this period. Then, in eighteen o four, Beethoven
Speaker 1: began making his affections very clear. While Josephine was pregnant
Speaker 1: with her fourth child, Count Dame died. In an apparent
Speaker 1: attempt to comfort the grief stricken Josephine, Beethoven wrote her
Speaker 1: the song and die hoffnuon or to Hope, set to
Speaker 1: text by C. A. Tch. In doing so, he allegedly
Speaker 1: caused a small kerfuffle when a visiting prince saw the
Speaker 1: un published version with Josephine's name on it. Beethoven then
Speaker 1: basically had to do damage control as word that he
Speaker 1: was planning to officially dedicate a piece to a recently
Speaker 1: widowed countess might have caused a public scandal. Still, in private,
Speaker 1: Beethoven's love steadily crescendoed. Once the possibility of Josephine remarrying
Speaker 1: was on the table, a series of fourteen love letters
Speaker 1: he wrote to her were found in the Brunswick family's
Speaker 1: possession and published in nineteen fifty seven. According to many
Speaker 1: modern historians and musicologists, these passionate messages were likely sent
Speaker 1: from eighteen oh four up until eighteen o nine or
Speaker 1: eighteen ten, and Beethoven's phrasing in them is notable. In
Speaker 1: relation to his Immortal Beloved letter. He addresses Josephine as
Speaker 1: my angel in both, and in his love letter series
Speaker 1: he makes many references to remaining faithful to her, calling
Speaker 1: her his beloved, his only Jay, and his beloved Jay.
Speaker 1: Of course, a crucial factor in all of this, and
Speaker 1: one that has spawned immense debate, is the level to
Speaker 1: which Josephine reciprocated Beethoven's feelings. Relatively little of her own
Speaker 1: writing seems to have survived, so it's tricky to gauge
Speaker 1: her emotional mindset at various points. Still, a few of
Speaker 1: Josephine's letters were ultimately unearthed. Here is a translated portion
Speaker 1: of one of her written replies to Beethoven's love letters.
Speaker 1: My soul was already enthusiastic for you, even before I
Speaker 1: knew you personally. This was increased through your affection. A
Speaker 1: deep feeling in my soul incapable of Russian made me
Speaker 1: love you. However, later in the same letter, she went
Speaker 1: on to say, this preference that you granted me the
Speaker 1: pleasure of your acquaintance, would have been the finest jewel
Speaker 1: of my life if you could have loved me less sensually. Similarly,
Speaker 1: in another letter, she stated, you have long had my heart,
Speaker 1: dear Beethoven. If this assurance can give you joy, then
Speaker 1: receive it, but later clarified, I love you inexpressibly as
Speaker 1: one gentle soul to another. Are you not capable of
Speaker 1: this covenant? I am not receptive to other forms of
Speaker 1: love for the present. Some biographers have argued that while
Speaker 1: Josephine cherished Beethoven's friendship and musical genius, she very kindly
Speaker 1: yet firmly tried to shut down his amorous overtures. Others
Speaker 1: have claimed that Josephine's true romantic inclinations are hard to ascertain,
Speaker 1: since she so often had to weigh them against her
Speaker 1: financial troubles, maternal responsibilities, and family's wishes. Researchers then dialed
Speaker 1: up even more of this analytical dissonance when they eventually
Speaker 1: compiled the letters, notes, and diary fragments of Josephine's sister
Speaker 1: Theres and published them in nineteen thirty eight, long after
Speaker 1: her death. Some of these documents show that after the
Speaker 1: Immortal Beloved Letter was published and Julietta Jucciardi was proposed
Speaker 1: as the intended recipient, Theres doubted the mysterious letter was
Speaker 1: to Julieta. She assumed it must have been to her
Speaker 1: sister Josephine, although it's possible Theres's understanding of the letter's
Speaker 1: date may have still been off. In any case, Here
Speaker 1: is a translation of one of Theresa's entries Beethoven. It
Speaker 1: is like a dream that he was the friend, the
Speaker 1: confident of our house, a beautiful mind. Why did not
Speaker 1: my sister Josephine, as widow dame take him as her husband,
Speaker 1: Josephine's soulmate. They were born for each other. The timing
Speaker 1: of the release of documents relating to the Immortal Beloved Letter,
Speaker 1: along with the absence of some of Josephine's personal writings
Speaker 1: does beg some questions about the Brunswick family. Did some
Speaker 1: information take a while in getting out simply because descendants
Speaker 1: and researchers needed time to comb through a large or
Speaker 1: disorganized state, or were members of the Brunswick family at
Speaker 1: times motivated to keep some materials out of public view.
Speaker 1: If so, was there a general fear of dirty laundry
Speaker 1: being aired, or was there a more specific scandal to
Speaker 1: be carefully covered up, because according to some scholars, there's
Speaker 1: a chance Josephine could have been in Prague on July third,
Speaker 1: eighteen twelve, and, as the more sealicious version of the
Speaker 1: theory goes, a one night tryst with Beethoven produced a
Speaker 1: Love Letter and a Love Child as a prelude to
Speaker 1: our celebrated composer's pivotal spa filled summer. Here's a bit
Speaker 1: more backstory, accompanied by Beethoven's piano trio in D major,
Speaker 1: Opis seventy number one, nicknamed the Ghost Trio. He composed
Speaker 1: it in eighteen o eight and dedicated it to Countess
Speaker 1: Marie Erduri, who, fun fact, was an another person briefly
Speaker 1: floated as the immortal Beloved while Beethoven was off courting
Speaker 1: other countesses. After seemingly being rebuffed for years by Josephine,
Speaker 1: Josephine met Estonian baron Christoph van Stockelberg in eighteen o eight.
Speaker 1: She got pregnant, and though her family was reportedly not
Speaker 1: thrilled about the match, she married Stockelberg in eighteen ten
Speaker 1: in a wedding with no guests. Sadly for Josephine, according
Speaker 1: to virtually all accounts, her second marriage was miserable. Stockelberg
Speaker 1: turned out to have extensive money troubles. Additionally, at that
Speaker 1: time in the Austrian Empire, aristocratic mothers were beholden to
Speaker 1: their husbands when it came to retaining custody and guardianship
Speaker 1: of their children, and Stockelberg allegedly often manipulated Josephine by
Speaker 1: threatening to take her children away from her, and often
Speaker 1: followed through. Given those familial problems, Josephine's apparent whereabouts in
Speaker 1: eighteen twelve and her seemingly ended relationship with Beethoven at
Speaker 1: the time, many scholars ruled her out as the addressee
Speaker 1: of the Immortal Beloved Letter for the record, though several
Speaker 1: did contend that Josephine was the intended recipient at different
Speaker 1: points in the twentieth century. To them, the fraught but
Speaker 1: enduring romantic connection was undeniable, even if some of the
Speaker 1: logistics were difficult to explain and over time for their.
Speaker 1: Examinations of Beethoven's other love letters and Terrez's diary, as
Speaker 1: well as additional Brunswick family documents that have surfaced in
Speaker 1: the last twenty years, appear to have bolstered the case
Speaker 1: for Josephine, or at least weakn and some arguments against
Speaker 1: her as the immortal beloved. For instance, in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, a Canadian musicologist found and published more documents
Speaker 1: from the Brunswick estate. Excerpts from Josephine's diary and notes
Speaker 1: left behind by her second husband, including a table of
Speaker 1: moral rules he left her to follow, make their relationship
Speaker 1: seem very rocky during the summer of eighteen twelve. They
Speaker 1: also show that Stockelberg likely left Josephine on her own
Speaker 1: that June and July. Furthermore, in a diary entry in
Speaker 1: June of eighteen twelve, Josephine expressed an intention to visit Prague.
Speaker 1: This makes it highly possible that she was in the
Speaker 1: city on July third, when Beethoven potentially had a fateful
Speaker 1: romantic rendez prior to writing his Immortal Beloved letter. Deeper
Speaker 1: analysis also revealed that Josephine possibly had plans to go
Speaker 1: to Carlsbad. Currently, there's no proof she went, but her
Speaker 1: intention to go could have been enough for Beethoven to
Speaker 1: consider sending his letter to Kay, and her then not
Speaker 1: going to Carlsbad after all, might have been a reason
Speaker 1: he never sent it. Here things become more speculative in
Speaker 1: several historians' claims. Some argue that Beethoven and Josephine met
Speaker 1: in Prague, and due to her unhappy and unfulfilling marriage,
Speaker 1: and perhaps even as the culmination of years of secretive longing,
Speaker 1: the two shared a night of passionate intimacy. Backers of
Speaker 1: this theory often point out the suspicious timing of the
Speaker 1: birth of Josephine's daughter, Minona, nine months after her apparent
Speaker 1: separation from Stockelberg, as well as remarks people made about
Speaker 1: how Minona looked very different from her siblings. A child
Speaker 1: born out of wedlock would also help to explain some
Speaker 1: of the Brunswick's later interfamily conflicts and Beethoven's cryptic messages.
Speaker 1: All that said, critics of this idea tend to dismiss
Speaker 1: it as pure sensationalism and similar to there being skepticism
Speaker 1: about the other main candidate we covered, Antony Brentano, There
Speaker 1: are vastly differing opinions on Josephine as the Immortal Beloved.
Speaker 1: Some scholars assert that Josephine clearly dashed Beethoven's romantic hopes
Speaker 1: and cut him off several years before eighteen twelve, while
Speaker 1: others maintain that Beta Beethoven kept up his relationship or
Speaker 1: some form of communication with Josephine and her siblings. Some
Speaker 1: say Josephine couldn't have been the Immortal Beloved because of
Speaker 1: the conversation referenced in Fanny Gientasio's eighteen sixteen diary entry,
Speaker 1: in which Beethoven said he'd gotten to know a woman
Speaker 1: five years before and that it was the greatest happiness
Speaker 1: of his life. Other question that diaries possible bias, since
Speaker 1: Fanny herself was supposedly enamored with Beethoven and her father
Speaker 1: was sessing out whether the composer might want to marry her.
Speaker 1: Of the many researchers who do accept the entry's account,
Speaker 1: some still interpret the five years comment Fanny made in
Speaker 1: different ways. Maybe it was a rough estimate by Fanny.
Speaker 1: Was it when Beethoven met a certain woman for the
Speaker 1: first time, or could it have been when he got
Speaker 1: to know someone more intimately? This brings us back to
Speaker 1: the subjectivity of such personal documents and leads us to
Speaker 1: the case for one last immortal beloved candidate, Bettina von
Speaker 1: Arnim formerly Brentano. Bettina has not gained quite the same
Speaker 1: level of scholarly support as Antony or Josephine, but she's
Speaker 1: recently garnered increased interest. She was the half sister of
Speaker 1: Franz Brentano, who married Antony, and many of the same
Speaker 1: parameters that contributed to the argument for Antony seemingly also
Speaker 1: applied to her. Bettina also met Beethoven in eighteen ten,
Speaker 1: thus fulfilling the rough window of Fanny's diary entry. By
Speaker 1: eighteen twelve, she was married, hence the hypothetical need for secrecy.
Speaker 1: Betina also intended to go to Carlsbad in the summer
Speaker 1: of eighteen twelve, then supposedly changed her plans and went
Speaker 1: to Teplete where Beethoven wrote his letter, which would readily
Speaker 1: explain why he didn't need to send it. Bettina was
Speaker 1: also an exceedingly accomplished singer, pianist, and composer, which possibly
Speaker 1: made her especially attractive to Beethoven. Again, his romantic feelings
Speaker 1: allegedly hinged on many traits. It is interesting, though, that
Speaker 1: some of his strongest infatuations did seem to involve many
Speaker 1: women who were themselves terrific musicians. One further link is
Speaker 1: that among Beethoven's surviving letters, there appeared to be only
Speaker 1: two in which he used the the informal German do
Speaker 1: form of you when writing to a woman. One was
Speaker 1: his Immortal Beloved letter, the other was a letter he
Speaker 1: sent to Betina a year earlier. Still, like any other
Speaker 1: immortal beloved candidacy, Bettina has detractors and possible holes. Some
Speaker 1: musicologists and German speaking biographers claim the way Beethoven used
Speaker 1: the second person due form in his letter to Bettina
Speaker 1: seems more friendly than romantic, and that his love letters
Speaker 1: to Josephine utilized phrases that also implied an informal and
Speaker 1: coy tone. Bettina's case also took hits Over the years since,
Speaker 1: she allegedly had a habit of embellishing stories, including ones
Speaker 1: involving Beethoven interacting with another famous friend, writer Johann Wolfgang.
Speaker 1: Bettina also published letters that she initially claimed to have
Speaker 1: been written by Beethoven that many historians subsequently discounted as forgeries,
Speaker 1: which diminished her overall credibility in certain scholarly circles. The
Speaker 1: reality is probably no piece of evidence will appear that
Speaker 1: irrevocably proves the identity of Beethoven's immortal beloved, and maybe
Speaker 1: that's part of the enduring fascination. The letter is a
Speaker 1: romantic riddle that keeps everyone from professional musicologists to casual
Speaker 1: fans of classical music guessing and debating, and in many ways,
Speaker 1: the sheer divisiveness of various theories and staunch loyalty of
Speaker 1: certain camps speaks to the letter's incredible lasting impact. In
Speaker 1: addition to what it conveys to a possible recipient and
Speaker 1: what it says about Beethoven, the letter also reveals a
Speaker 1: great deal about us those who dig into its mystery.
Speaker 1: Perhaps it's easy to emotionally invest in certain speculations and
Speaker 1: candidates because it's easy to project personal feelings and experiences
Speaker 1: onto Beethoven, his fraught personal life and the individual who
Speaker 1: earned his undying love, whoever they were. For those who
Speaker 1: have suffered through heartfelt longing and heartbreak, the way in
Speaker 1: which Beethoven closes his Immortal Beloved Letter is often as
Speaker 1: relatable as it is raw. Be calm. Only through quiet
Speaker 1: contemplation of our existence can we reach our goal to
Speaker 1: live together. Be patient, love me today, yesterday, what longing
Speaker 1: with tears for you? You, you my love, my all. Farewell, Oh,
Speaker 1: continue to love me. Never misjudge the most faithful heart
Speaker 1: of your beloved l Forever yours, forever mine, forever us.
Speaker 1: The original pages of the Immortal Beloved Letter now reside
Speaker 1: in the Berlin State Library, and its contents continue to
Speaker 1: fuel research articles and ample scholarly squabbling. The letter even
Speaker 1: inspired the nineteen ninety four movie Immortal Beloved that erroneously
Speaker 1: depicted Beethoven's sister in La johannav On Beethoven as the
Speaker 1: addressy speaking of more improbable candidates. We are now listening
Speaker 1: to Beethoven's piano Sonata Number twenty eight in a Major
Speaker 1: Opus one hundred and one, which he composed in eighteen
Speaker 1: fifteen and eighteen sixteen, and dedicated to Countess Dorothea Rtmann,
Speaker 1: another pianist. Around the time, he was reportedly looking back
Speaker 1: on his time spent with his immortal beloved Fascinatingly, in
Speaker 1: addition to leaving behind its own complex legacy, the Immortal
Speaker 1: Beloved letter might have inspired other similar love letters. Composer
Speaker 1: Richard Wagner, known to be very familiar and very enamored
Speaker 1: with Beethoven's life and work, became infatuated with a married
Speaker 1: woman and wrote her an impassioned final letter that, according
Speaker 1: to some biographers, has a striking resemblance to Beethoven's famous
Speaker 1: enigmatic message. Wagner apparently wrote his letter on the same
Speaker 1: date that Beethoven began drafting his July sixth. It contained
Speaker 1: similar phrases, and it even seems to clearly reference specific
Speaker 1: passages Beethoven's secretary wrote about Beethoven's love life. Then get this.
Speaker 1: Wagner's tragic love letter seemingly inspired Austrian composer Albin Berg,
Speaker 1: a big Wagner fan, to write a similar sounding letter
Speaker 1: to the unattainable love of his life. It's worth noting
Speaker 1: that it can be difficult to delineate between composers personal feelings,
Speaker 1: their public personas, and some of the creative trappings and
Speaker 1: tropes of the burgeoning romantic movement in Western Europe. Specifically,
Speaker 1: the notion of pining away for an unattainable love became
Speaker 1: a fashionable theme and an undercurrent of many artists' work
Speaker 1: across multiple mediums. Relatedly, there has been substantial debate over
Speaker 1: historians and critics' shifting views on the relationship between a
Speaker 1: composer's music and their biography. Scholarly opinions very massively on
Speaker 1: how readily we should accept musical works as outpourings of
Speaker 1: a composer's inner self. That said, this is a podcast,
Speaker 1: it would seem a missed opportunity to feature some of
Speaker 1: classical music's most timeless pieces without highlighting at least a
Speaker 1: few more possible romantic connections using Beethoven's own auditory love language.
Speaker 1: Searching for secret musically encoded messages can certainly go too far,
Speaker 1: but there is also a humorous irony in the most
Speaker 1: narrow quests to parse every last phrase of Beethoven's letter,
Speaker 1: when he often called out his own limitations with language,
Speaker 1: claiming quote music is more at my command than words,
Speaker 1: So let's close by letting Beethoven's compositions do most of
Speaker 1: the talking. Many musicologists have pointed out links between specific
Speaker 1: Beethoven pieces and the Immortal Beloved Letter. The music theory
Speaker 1: can get granular and in some cases even obsessive, but
Speaker 1: three related works that frequently come up as having demonstrably
Speaker 1: similar themes are Andante favori, written for Josephine in eighteen
Speaker 1: oh three and eighteen oh four, which we heard in
Speaker 1: part one song number six of the To the Distant
Speaker 1: Beloved song cycle Opus ninety eight, composed eighteen sixteen and
Speaker 1: said to poetry by Alois Jechle. According to some musicologists,
Speaker 1: this was Beethoven calling out to the same beloved whom
Speaker 1: he told in his Immortal Beloved Letter quote, I have
Speaker 1: resolved to stray about in the distance, and it contains
Speaker 1: a very similar specific musical phrase to Andante favorie. And finally,
Speaker 1: the third movement Andante molto contibile ed espressivo of piano
Speaker 1: sonata at number thirty Opus one hundred and nine. If
Speaker 1: you remember, this was the sonata we previously heard that
Speaker 1: was dedicated to Antony's daughter Maximilian, but was Beethoven also
Speaker 1: using a theme originally and maybe still meant for Josephine.
Speaker 1: Let's hear each excerpt one more time and then you
Speaker 1: can judge. Were these merely cases of a master leaning
Speaker 1: on a favorite motif, an emotional composer leaning into the
Speaker 1: artistic ideals of his era, a cheeky interloper hoping his
Speaker 1: beloved would hear his musical messaging, a heartbroken romantic lamenting
Speaker 1: a love that could never be? And or are these
Speaker 1: just some pieces of immortally moving music. That's part two
Speaker 1: of the perpetually gripping story of Beethoven's Immortal Beloved. But
Speaker 1: stick around after a brief sponsor break to learn a
Speaker 1: little bit more about Beethoven's other famous unsent letter. When
Speaker 1: the Immortal Beloved letter was found at Beethoven's estate, so
Speaker 1: was one other crucial unsent document. The Heiligenstadt Testament, was
Speaker 1: a message Beethoven drafted to his brothers in eighteen o
Speaker 1: two about his struggles with his hearing loss, depression, and
Speaker 1: related grappling over whether to commit suicide or to continue
Speaker 1: to live on for the sake of producing more music.
Speaker 1: It is tough to fully fathom the pain and isolation.
Speaker 1: Beethoven endured during vast periods of his life, and his
Speaker 1: plight brings up many complicated questions regarding how his suffering
Speaker 1: inhibited or fueled his genius. One thing is for sure, though,
Speaker 1: considering his transcendent creative output for the last twenty five
Speaker 1: years of his life, the music loving world can be
Speaker 1: endlessly thankful that Beethoven continually chose his beloved art of composing.
Speaker 1: This episode was written by Paul Jeffy. One final note
Speaker 1: for this episode, our producers for the show found most
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