Giulietta Guicciardi

Countess Julie ( " Giulietta " ) Guicciardi ( born November 23, 1782 Przemysl, Galicia, † March 22 1856 in Vienna) was an Austrian nobleman and for a short time piano student of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Life

" Julie ," as it was called in the family, and her parents arrived in June 1800 from Trieste to Vienna, where he was because of her beauty soon became the center of society. She became engaged to the young Count Wenzel Robert von Gall mountain, whom she married on 14 November 1803. Then she traveled with him to Naples, where the family resided for many years. In later years, the Prince Hermann von Pueckler was one of her admirers.

Relationship with Beethoven

Beethoven met Julie through the Brunsvik family know. He was especially close friends with the sisters Therese and Josephine Brunsvik. In the fall of 1801, he was Julie's piano teacher and fell apparently into it. It is likely that " magical girl ", about which he writes on November 16, 1801 his childhood friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler: " I live a little more pleasant grants again, as I made ​​myself more at people, you can hardly believe how desolate, how sad I spent my life for 2 years, like a ghost is my bad hearing appeared to me everywhere, and I fled - the people Misantrop had to appear and rush yet so little, this change has produced a sweet enchanting girl who loves me, and I love it since 2 years back some blissful moments, and it is the first time that I feel that - could make marry happily, unfortunately it is not socially from my ". In 1802 he dedicated to her as " Giulietta Guicciardi the" Moonlight Sonata.

Compared to its loyal assistant and biographer, Anton Schindler, Beethoven known in February 1823 he was at the time had actually been in love with her. In his 1840 published biography of Beethoven Schindler, " Giulietta " claimed was the addressee of the letter to the "Immortal Beloved", which (although at that time not yet published ) has been questioned by her cousin Therese Brunsvik immediately: "Three letters by Beethoven, allegedly to Giulietta. Should it be concoctions? " Therese's doubts were only too well founded, since - in contrast to Schindler and almost all other contemporaries - pretty good about the intense and long-lasting love relationship Beethoven to her sister Josephine Brunsvik knew: " 3 letters of Beethoven ... they will probably be to Josephine, whom he loved passionately. "