Was the immortal sweetheart of Beethoven Hungarian?

When Beethoven died, love letters were found without recipients. For a long time it was believed that the composer wrote the letters to Teréz Brunszvik, the pioneer of the Hungarian kindergartens. However, recent researches suggest that this assumption is wrong. Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu investigated who the “immortal sweetheart” of Beethoven was.

One letters consists of three parts, and it was for long considered to be an assembly of three separate letters. Beethoven started to write it on July 6 and finished it the next morning. There is neither a date, a address, nor a recipient on the letter.

Perhaps Beethoven did not send the letters, or he got them back. Music historians are not sure who the recipient was. However, the Brunszvik family’s Martonvásár estate could be the target.

Beethoven taught Teréz and Jozefin to play the piano for 16 days, and the composer visited Martonvásár twice, in May 1800 and in the summer of 1806. Teréz clearly referred to the mutual love of Beethoven and her married sister, Jozefin. Thus, according to the latest researches, Beethoven was in love, but not with Teréz Brunszvik but her sister.

Allegedly, he may have wrote the letters to Jozefin. However, there are two other possible recipients. One of them is Giulietta Guicciardi, the flirtatious cousin of the girls, who is also a member of the Brunszvik family, at least on the maternal side. The other one is Anotonie Brentano, a Frankfurt merchant’s wife. Beethoven was in love with them as well, and his feelings did not remain unrequited, szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu reports.