Episode 17 – Beethoven and Women

John focuses on Beethoven’s relationship with women and how he was, throughout his life, unlucky in love. He never married, but John reveals how he proposed marriage several times; once to a woman for him he wrote his famous Moonlight Sonata but whose father was not keen on Beethoven’s prospects for his daughter, and again to a young female pupil of his. She also rejected his proposal. John also plays music that Beethoven composed for a mysteriously titled “immortal beloved” and explains why, despite his obvious love for the opposite sex, marriage might not have suited Beethoven at all. All the Beethoven pieces featured in this podcast are taken from the 90-disc Naxos box set, the Complete Beethoven Edition. You can buy yours by heading to Presto Classical and Europadisc.