El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-10-17
Beethoven Charmed the Women
UnprepOsing and Deaf, the MasteF Of
Music Found Favor in the Eyes
Of Many Women and Won
the Love OF One.
BY Madison {. Peters

OSSESSING not one physical at
- traction, Handicapped by deaf
= ness. with a repulsive person
alitv. vet to Few men has it been vouch-
safed to find favor in the eyes Of SO
many women as TO Ludwig Won Bee.
thoveu, while men about him had all
the qualities that he lacked, stlll they
were ignored for the irascible, morose
untidy musician
He fitted from flower to flower, but
the flowers soon faded or " ere trans
planted by other hands. He mad ont
lasting passion, however, Of which ne
wrote upon waking TO realization OF
his feeling I have been like foolish
boy who gathered stones and did not
observe the flower growing by the
way"
Loved by Pupil.
This flower was the countess
Therese Won Brunswick, his pupil Ihey
were engaged for four years. but his
irritability. his absorption Of himself
and devotion TO his art his violent
DutbursJs Of temper, which frightened
the gentle Therese. severed the tie
or1tyyardIv. although there is little
doubt that their feeling for one an
other suffered no change with the
years From the time she was Is years
Did. when she became the pupil, TO the
dav Of her death, she loved the great
COMPOSER. though she carefully hid her
feeling She played so poorly that
Beethoven in a rage rusned rom the
house. forgetting his overcoat and
muffler. Therese picked these up and
ran out TO the street, the butler fol-
lowing. relieved her and hurried te the
COMPOSER As she entered the doorway
again her mother, who luckily had not
seen her in the street, was scandaliZed,
that her daughter should have so for
gotten herself as to run after man,
II only TO the front door He might
have caught cold and died" exclaimed
Therese-
Tberese was the daughter Of a noble
house and the marriage between her
and the uncouth musician was con-
sidered impossible by the passlonauely
proud mother OF Therese- Therese's
income was small and Beethoven's IN
settled, and the alliance did not meet
the family sanction Beethoven saw
the truth in this opposition and he
left for q health resort doWncast over
his uncertain future and his first sepa-
ration from Therese, and Under these
circumstances he wrote the. letter to
his immortal beloved"
Wceps Over Portrait.
Baron Spaur tells US that entering
BeethOven's lodging he found him
bending over q WOman'S portrait weep
fnE as he ruttered. You were too
good. too angelic" Another moment
and he thrust the portrait into an old
chest where it was found after his
death in 1927 with the letter 20 his i'm
in the Beethoven museum m Bonn
On the back Of the portrait is the in
scriptlo1 in Womcn's hand TO the
rare genius. the great artist and good
man, from T. B"
Therese was patient and loving and
would have been just the wife for q
mon OF BeethOven's fiery temperament
Therese never forgot her lover Some
years after Beethoven's death Therese
took strong liking TO Miriam TenEer-
She took charge Of this Eirl until a
school could be selected for her in
Vienna When the time for parting
came Miriam threw her arms about
the countess and burst into tears
Child. child" exclaimed Therese, do
you really love me So Il love you so
that I could die for you" replied the
child and with arms around her
neck Therese said When YOU have
grown older and wiser YOU viii under
stand what I mean when I say that
TO live for those we love shows a far
greater love, because IL requires so
much more courage While you are in
Vienna there is a great favor YOU can
do for me. On the 9th Of every March
90 TO the Wahringer cemetery and lay
a wreath OF immOrtelles on Beethoven's
grave"
Therese sewed d spray Of immor-
telles that he had given her into a
cushion and asked that it be placed
under her head in her casket She
loved her music master while studying
under his guidance and he had caused her
much suffering by his infatuation for
her cousin. Giulietta Guicciardo 10
whom he dedicated his Moonlight
Sonata Giulietta was much inclined
TO marry Ludwig, but eLpediency won
the day and she married a man OF lesser
fame, but Of social prominence, count
Gallenberg.
Although Of humble origin
Beethoven's Inamoratos were women
OF high station. He was born in the
town Of Bonn in 1870. His father was
his mother was a cook, who died when I
he was quite young.
Was Pianist at II.
At the age Of II he was a fine pianist. 1
He has been called the Shakspere Of I
music, il was his great passion. and j
no woman could ever have filled its \
place, although many times he was on 4
the verge OF matrimony thinking that
the ideal state. then suddenly his feel
ings changed or the fair woman mar
rled some one else In his early youth !
there was Barbara Koch and Gilmore
Won BruenninS; then came Fraulein I
WlsterhOld, Magdalena Whitman Julie |
Won Nerlng. Therese Won Malfatti and l
many others who loved him for a while !
and then went on They must have all
been beautiful, for he wrote. in a rather
-nppanI manner: I cannot love any !
thing that is not beautiful. If I could !
would fail in love with myself"
He died IN 1927, the greatest orches-
raj genius OF the 18th century. While !
here have arisen other schools Of mn !
SIC, and men just as great, he brought ]
he sonata form to perfection and he
yl!i probaDly never have a rival in that |
lelo, Wi1le his symphonies have never |
'een surpassed and like all great works
g M tn Iva .