Leonora, title at one time contemplated by Beethoven for his opera Fidelio and actually used in 1806 for a revised version (Leonora oder der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe). The title still survives in the three rejected overtures, Leonora Nr. 1, 2, 3.

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