What was the name of Beethoven's girl friend?

Answer 1

It was rumoured that Ludwig van Beethoven dated and/or slept with Johanna Reiss, a prostitute who later married Ludwig's younger brother, Caspar-Carl. It has sometimes even been suggested that Ludwig fathered his brother's son, Karl which was the reason why he was so desperate for custody after his brother's death.

Answer 2

Although Beethoven never married, he was once engaged to Giulietta Guiccardi. Her father prevented their marriage, and she married a nobleman instead, and it was not a happy marriage ending in divorce a couple years after. She tried to return to Beethoven but was unsuccessful.

Josephine von Brunswick, the young widow of Graf von Deym was another documented love affair of Beethoven. Again, the womans family interviened and ended their relationship based upon them believing that Beethoven was indesisive most of the time.

Answer 3

Beethoven never married and never fathered any children but did have many close relationships with some women

Answer 4

A girl named Antonie Brentano. but he called her his 'Imortal beloved'

he started sending notes to her in 1812

Answer 5

Beethoven never married. He has had a few girlfriend's and a mysterious lover (though no one knows her name), but never a wife.