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==Failures with Women== | ==Failures with Women== | ||
According to his boyhood friend Franz Wegeler<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/beethoven-in-love-the-woman-who-captivated-the-young-composer</ref>: | According to his boyhood friend Franz Wegeler<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/beethoven-in-love-the-woman-who-captivated-the-young-composer</ref>: | ||
“There never was a time when Beethoven was not in love, and that in the highest degree.” In this period, in his adolescence, as well as in his entire adult life, he would fall in love with females who were simply not available. It is a consistent pattern, to such an extent that you have to wonder if it was a deliberate course of action on his part, as if he was somehow fearful of the commitment it could lead to. But in the early years, this was clearly not the case. He was certainly more than anxious to have an amorous relationship. -Franz Wegeler | “There never was a time when Beethoven was not in love, and that in the highest degree.” In this period, in his adolescence, as well as in his entire adult life, he would fall in love with females who were simply not available. It is a consistent pattern, to such an extent that you have to wonder if it was a deliberate course of action on his part, as if he was somehow fearful of the commitment it could lead to. But in the early years, this was clearly not the case. He was certainly more than anxious to have an amorous [[relationship]]. -Franz Wegeler | ||
He had a 40 year unrequited love from Fräulein von Westerholt, whom Beethoven took on as a pupil. | He had a 40 year unrequited love from Fräulein von Westerholt, whom Beethoven took on as a pupil. | ||