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-==[https://www.createspace.com/5642030 ''The Immortal Beloved Compendium''. Everything About the Only Woman Beethoven Ever Loved – And Many He Didn't.]==
-The Immortal Beloved Compendium, written in the light of the latest research into this perennially fascinating figure, is the key to a full understanding of Beethoven. It includes copious extracts from the composer's and his contemporaries' letters and diaries, providing first-hand evidence of his personality.
-Clear and concise commentaries illuminate the sources that document Beethoven's love life. This is an indispensable guide, a standard reference work on Beethoven, a constant source of elucidation and enjoyment.
-An exciting journey through musical literature, this Compendium summarizes the most authoritative current thinking on Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved" in a digest of succinct and easily accessible sections. Each chapter is a cornucopia of information on every aspect of this topic.
-"Rigorously meticulous and objective, this book is indispensable to scholars as well as fascinating to amateurs and will be of greatest interest and value to all music lovers." ''(The Classical Musicologist)''
-==[https://www.createspace.com/3561406 ''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!'']==
-years after Beethoven wrote a passionate love letter to a woman whose name he omitted, here is the life story of [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine Countess von Brunsvik]], the only woman whom the composer ever loved:  There were at least 15 more love letters to her before that. She was and remained his “Only Beloved”, his “Everything”, his “Angel”. He vowed to remain forever faithful and devoted to her – and he did. Their love was “made in Heaven” – however, there was to be no fulfilment in this life, no happy end.<br>
-Josephine’s fate was an extremely tragic one: Starting off as a promising pianist (with Beethoven’s help), the rich and beautiful young Countess was coveted and admired by Viennese High Society. She was married against her will; her husband died suddenly and she had to look after four little children… Her affection for the composer left her torn between love and duty – the classic romantic conflict between the pursuit of individual happiness and the obligations imposed by the rigid class structure of the morbid Austro-Hungarian Empire.<br>
-German-born author New Zealand John E Klapproth narrates with empathy and erudition the major biographical details of Josephine’s “Journey from Heaven to Hell” and her relationship to Beethoven, showing how their love, though doomed, was ultimately the major motivating force that inspired and enabled the composer to create, despite increasing deafness and isolation, the most beautiful and lyrical music of all times.<br>
-With new translations of all quoted German sources, this is a meticulously investigated treatise, based on the latest pertinent scholarly research. A short chapter is added to expose the conjecture by the American author [[Maynard Solomon|Solomon]] that Beethoven’s “[[Immortal Beloved]]” might have been a brief acquaintance called Antonie Brentano (in some places still popular): It is not only untenable in its own right, but also based on flawed interpretations and many erroneous translations. See also for a preview [https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1085738].
-==New biography introduces Beethoven’s only beloved and explores their doomed romance==
-===[https://www.createspace.com/3561406 ''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!''] by John E Klapproth provides a look into the famed composer’s personal life===
-GREYTOWN, [[New Zealand]] – Ludwig van Beethoven is best known for his musical masterpieces, but John E Klapproth looks at his love life in [https://www.createspace.com/3561406 ''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!''] (ISBN 1461186382). Written for a general audience, Klapproth uncovers the composer’s secret romance to provide readers with a unique insight into his personal life.<br>
-Two hundred years ago, Beethoven wrote a passionate, heartfelt love letter to an unnamed mystery woman. Incorporating new documents recently discovered in European archives, Klapproth reveals that this letter was intended for [[Josephine Brunsvik| Josephine Countess von Brunsvik]] as in several earlier letters to her, Beethoven again called her his “only beloved,” his “everything” and his “angel.”
-As Beethoven’s pupil, [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] became an accomplished pianist, and her outstanding beauty was admired by Viennese high society. She was forced by her family to marry a nobleman, who died suddenly and left her with four young children. She was faced with the decision to follow her heart or to fulfill her duties. Klapproth narrates [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]’s conflict between her love for Beethoven and the strict obligations of the rigid class structure of her time.<br>
-“Their love, though doomed, was ultimately the major motivating force that inspired and enabled Beethoven to create the most beautiful and lyrical music of all time, despite his increasing deafness and isolation,” Klapproth said. “[[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] played a major role in his life, and this is the first ever biography of [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] in English, based on the latest scholarly research.”<br>
-“Beethoven’s Only Beloved: [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]!” is available for sale online at [https://www.createspace.com/3561406 CreateSpace], Amazon and other channels, and at ALMO’s in Carterton, HEDLEY’s in Masterton and BENNETT’s in [[Wellington]].
-===About the Author===
-Born in West [[Germany]], John E Klapproth moved to [[New Zealand]] and also lived in [[Australia]] for a while. He studied mathematics and physics in [[Frankfurt]] and sociology and psychology in [[Regensburg]] before working as an industrial psychologist and computer programmer. He currently works for the government in [[Wellington]], [[New Zealand]].
-==The score on Beethoven’s love==
-===Wairarapa writer lifts veil on mystery woman who captured German composer’s heart===
-By Gerald Ford
-John Klapproth fell in love with the music of Beethoven decades ago, as a young man in the aptly named city of [[Ludwigshafen]], [[Germany]].
-Now in his adopted home of Greytown, Klapproth has written a groundbreaking biography of the woman he claims was Beethoven’s one true love.
-Klapproth has been living down under since 1987 – first for nine years in Upper Hutt, then 11 years in [[Australia]], before settling in Greytown in 2007.
-The psychologist turned computer programmer clearly remembers the first time he really heard Beethoven, at 28 years of age.
-“I had it on the radio in an apartment in [[Germany]]”, Klapproth said.
-“I was all of a sudden so excited I turned it up so loud that the neighbours complained.”
-The piece was Symphony Nr. 8, composed in 1812, and Klapproth believes that it expresses the high point in Beethoven’s otherwise unrequited lifelong love.
-Beethoven, a bachelor, left behind a letter that has excited much debate over the years, addressed to a mystery woman known as his “[[Immortal Beloved]]” and “only beloved”.
-Klapproth has researched this mystery since that first radio symphony, and has now published his findings as the book, ''Beethoven’s Only Beloved: [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]''!
-By Klapproth’s reckoning, much of Beethoven’s music was romantically inspired, but especially Symphony Nr. 8.
-“It was the moment he met (after a long absence) his immortal beloved, whom I believe was [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]. It symbolises the sudden excitement of meeting a long-lost, but not forgotten, person he saw on the street.”
-[[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine Countess von Brunsvik]] was a pupil of Beethoven, a beauty admired by high society in Vienna and married against her will to a nobleman, who died leaving her with four young children.
-Klapproth narrates “[[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]’s conflict between her love for Beethoven and the strict obligations of the rigid class structure of the time.”
-He believes despite a brief liaison that resulted in a daughter who could only have belonged to Beethoven, the pair stayed apart throughout their lives.
-“Beethoven was very morality based, very Catholic from his upbringing.”
-Klapproth describes as “close to certain” his contention Beethoven fathered one of Josephine’s children, and he believes it could be tested through DNA if the descendants were willing.
-“Some of them are scared to death to get this confirmed.”
-Klapproth originally penned [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] as the manuscript of a movie, but with no producer or director, he “thought I would try it as a book”.
-It was written during a four-week break from work and as an alternative to something else that may have taken up Klapproth’s time.
-“I was bored with the soccer World Cup; I couldn’t listen to the commentators”, Klapproth said. “I wanted to do something interesting and more active.”
-Inspiration for the movie and the book had come from Beethoven’s more romantic pieces.
-These include Op. 50, a romance with violin and orchestra “so moving it brought tears to my eyes”.
-Another piece Klapproth describes as “a sad song, a song about yearning, that can be related to events in Beethoven’s life”.
-The famous ''pastoral'' symphony, Number 6, was one Klapproth played while courting a young lady in [[Germany]].
-“It appeared she liked it; she is still with me.”
-The author’s enthusiasm for Beethoven was such that he bought a CD player in the later 1970s.
-He has recordings of every known piece Beethoven composed, even obscure and unfinished works, and of many several times over to compare performances.
-[https://www.createspace.com/3561406: ''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!''] is the first biography written in English about Countess Josephine, and is designed to be acceptable at a university as well as a popular level. The work was edited by “a renowned Beethoven scholar” and is also being published in German.
-“It has been edited to withstand scrutiny and ensure that it is something that would be accepted in [[Germany]] as a scholarly book. It could be controversial, but controversy is good publicity.”
-Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 2011
-==ForeWord ''Clarion'' Review NONFICTION: BIOGRAPHY==
-===''Beethoven's Only Beloved: [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]!'' A Biography of the Only Woman Beethoven ever Loved===
-John E. Klapproth<br>
-[https://www.createspace.com/3561406 CreateSpace] ISBN 978-1-4611-8638-0 Four Stars (out of Five)<br>
-Fans of Charles Schulz's Peanuts cartoons will remember Schroeder, the Beethoven-obsessed character who kept a bust of the composer on his piano and never let the feminine charms of Lucy interrupt his playing. John E. Klapproth is like Schroeder, similarly absorbed in Beethoven's music and life story. In [http://www.createspace.com/3740694 ''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!''] the author identifies the composer's anonymous lover and muse, the "[[Immortal Beloved]]" Beethoven refers to in a passionate 1812 letter. She is the subject of much debate among classical music scholars and devotees. Klapproth is suited to tackling this detective work. A serious Beethoven fan and fluent in both German and English, he is thus able to understand the nuances of meaning in each language as he analyzes reams of historical documents. He identifies [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]], Countess von Brunsvik (later, Baroness von Stackelberg), as Beethoven's [[Immortal Beloved|beloved]], laying out proof for his theory in a chronological account of her life, and Beethoven's, and where they intersect. Klapproth believes that the composer fell in love with [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]], his musical pupil, and would have married her if only [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]'s aristocratic mother had not had a wealthy old nobleman in mind for her nuptials. In addition, Klapproth makes a case that Beethoven fathered a daughter with [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] during her difficult and loveless second marriage. The book is packed with footnotes, quotes, charts, and paragraph after paragraph of literary detective work, which will be absorbing to Beethoven afficionados, but perhaps not to many other readers.<br>
-Klapproth's prose style has verve and charm, but he relies a bit too much on the parenthetical asides. ''Beethoven's Only Beloved: [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]!'' is an extensively researched and well-written book, but it is hard to know if it will have an audience beyond the hardcore classical music buff or Beethoven scholar. The author provides a great deal of information about the Eastern European cultural scene during Beethoven's time, but the book is primarily an exhaustive argument in favor of identifying [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] as Beethoven's lover, which may limit a wider readership. Rachel Jagareski --ForeWord Clarion Reviews
-==EVERY LOVER OF BEETHOVEN'S MUSIC SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!==
-By Michael Hedley Burton<br>
-I have been interested for some time in the question of who Beethoven's "[[Immortal Beloved]]" really was. Every writer has a muse, mortal or immortal. Beethoven probably had a few, but is it not significant which woman's soul he poured his music into as a gift of love? The one great, famous letter to this [[Immortal Beloved]] that was found in a secret compartment of his desk after his death left her inconveniently unnamed. That letter has been called (I forget by whom) "the greatest outpouring of passion ever written by a man to a woman," and for close to 200 years people have wondered who the mysterious recipient of the letter really was.<br>
-When I did my own research into Beethoven's life for my one-man-play ''Being Beethoven'' (first performed around America by Marke Levene and a decade later done by myself in various parts of [[New Zealand]]), I was convinced by American music critic, [[Maynard Solomon]], that the mystery woman was family friend, Antonie Brentano. John Klapproth has a whole chapter, and many scattered remarks elsewhere, aimed at rubbing my nose in my own foolishness for ever believing such nonsense. John is scathing of the logic that could put forward a candidate who has so little to recommend herself other than that she was in the right place at the right time. His woman, Beethoven's "only beloved" Josephine, ([[Josephine Brunsvik]]) is someone who was indisputably connected to Beethoven romantically in an earlier part of their lives. He wrote to her letters in the same style as the [[Immortal Beloved]] letter, calling her, as he did in the Immortal letter, "my Angel". If I had read those letters myself, they alone would have been enough to convince me - the style is so similar. Other evidence comes from letters from Josephine's sister, Teresa. Like Josephine, she was in love with Beethoven and was faithful to him over many decades, but she makes it quite clear that it was her sister who was the chosen one. All in all, the evidence of a deep romantic attachment between Ludwig and Josephine - an attachment that survived the vicissitudes of space and time - is simply too great to be denied.<br>
-According to Klapproth, the reason why so many people in the English-speaking world languish under the illusion that the jury is still out concerning the identity of the woman arises because so much of the recent research has been done in German and not translated. Klapproth builds a case that certainly seems to be watertight. He quotes from what we know and fills in the gaps out of deduction, making it clear when events are proved and when there is still some ground for uncertainty. Solomon dismissed [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] from being a serious candidate because there is no record of her being near to where Beethoven was when he wrote the letter. Klapproth shows that although there is no evidence she was there then, there is also no evidence that she was not there; in fact there were compelling reasons for her to have been travelling in secret at that time in a way that would have left no official record.<br>
-During their lifetimes, secrecy was necessary between Ludwig and [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]], and Beethoven went out of his way to keep his feelings hidden because he and his beloved were star-crossed lovers who could not marry. They were first pushed apart because Josephine was a countess, forced by her mother to marry someone rich and noble (and old). Then later, after her first husband's death, a tragic turn comes into[[Josephine Brunsvik]Josephine]]'s life due to her ghastly destiny-connection with her second husband - a tutor to her children who seduced her and got her pregnant (a "mistake" if there ever was one!) - a man who had the power to take all her children from her if she dared to follow her heart and be with Beethoven.
-Though much was cloaked in secrecy, Beethoven and his beloved left many traces of their long-term involvement. The book is impeccably researched, and all the key statements of letters, diaries, etc., are provided in German as well as English. This is important because Klapproth shows how many mistakes have been made through bad translations. He even asserts that Solomon was told the error of his ways regarding some mistranslations and yet refused to make changes in later editions of his book because his translation fitted the interpretation he was angling for. (One notable example Klapproth provides is in a passage in Beethoven's notebook where a certain musician asks Beethoven, "Wollen Sie bey meiner Frau schlafen?" (p. 157) and this is translated by Solomon as, "Do you want to sleep with my wife?" As Beethoven apparently answered in the affirmative, this was cited as evidence of the deaf composer's declining morals, however a better translation, and one which fits a following sentence which Solomon left out, would be the somewhat less alarming, "Do you want to sleep at my wife's place?")<br>
-[https://www.createspace.com/3561406 CreateSpace ''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!''] is not only a detective story to find out who the mystery woman was - it is an absolutely absorbing account of human tragedy that would engage the heart even if the heroine's lover were not Beethoven. The account of [[Josephine Brunsvik]Josephine]]'s decline into physical illness and mental instability is poignant. Klapproth builds up a picture of the personality of this woman, so linked to Beethoven and yet forced to remain far from him as regards what was possible in an earthly relationship. Anyone who knows and loves Beethoven's music really should get a copy of this book and read their tragic tale.<br>
-Will music-lovers of the English-speaking world, now exposed to German scholarship through this book, come to a new understanding of Beethoven and listen to some of his music with new ears through being able to imagine the situation he was in and the person he was writing for? Beethoven's music is continually rediscovered and played anew for different generations and no one hears it exactly as those who have gone before. To me, it certainly makes a huge difference, knowing how Beethoven's secret commitment fired his will and helped him to create his music. Beethoven had his share of affairs and entanglements, but[[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] was his soul-mate - his equal in many ways and the source of much of his music - some of it, the most beautiful and romantic music ever written.<br>
-I will be forever grateful to this book for pointing out to me a story that, without it, would have remained to me unknown. Beethoven can be perceived as an even greater man through having kept this secret faith over decades. And [[Josephine Brunsvik]Josephine]] - life gave her few blessings during her lifetime but such a book as this places her before the English-speaking world in a way in which we can recognize her, understand her and feel compassion for the impossibility of her tragic destiny. May she find fulfillment in the region of the stars beyond earthly suffering and in the companionship of her [[Immortal Beloved]], Beethoven.
-==A valuable book for understanding Beethoven as a human being==
-By Heidrun Beißwenger<br>
-After Marie-Elisabeth Tellenbach's exceptional musicological work, "Beethoven und seine Unsterbliche Geliebte Josephine Brunswick" (Beethoven and his [[Immortal Beloved]] [[Josephine Brunsvik]]), it was already clear who Beethoven's only beloved was. John E Klapproth summarizes in his book again everything already known as well as new material on this subject, and he elaborates in particular the character of [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]].<br>
-The author ingeniously uses musical concepts as section headings. Each year of the relationship between the two lovers is treated in a separate chapter. A clear, easy to look up life story is provided to the reader.<br>
-Thus one is enticed to read the book (as a German), even though it is in English. Fortunately Klapproth at least provides the German quotations in the original language. Because even the love terms Beethoven had chosen for his beloved [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] sound strangely sober, prosaic, even flat in the English translation. This is of course not Klapproth's fault. German terms that go deep into one's soul do not match the equivalent English expression (e.g., "my everything" for Beethoven's "mein Alles"; "happyness" for "Glückseligkeit"; "opposite sex" for "das andere Geschlecht"! awful!).<br>
-Tellenbach's book appeared in 1983, before the opening of the "Iron Curtain". Therefore important documents in [[Hungary]], [[Slovakia]] and the [[Czech Republic]] to support her research results were not yet available. Such documents - and Klapproth refers to them - have been found by another musicologist, first published in 2002 in ''Österreichische Musikzeitschrift'' 57/6: [[Rita Steblin]], "[[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] Gräfin Brunswick-Deyms Geheimnis enthüllt: Neue Ergebnisse zu ihrer Beziehung zu Beethoven" [Countess[[ Josephine Brunsvik]]-Deym's Secret Revealed: New Results on her Relationship to Beethoven].
-They all arrive - together with other researchers - at the same result: "The '[[Immortal Beloved]]' was [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]] and no one else" ([[Rita Steblin|Steblin]]).<br>
-Beethoven, as a human being, now appears to us in all his profoundness and grandeur, corroborated by a better assessment of [[Josephine Brunsvik|Josephine]]'s noble character and her aspirations: She sacrificed her great love for the sake of her children whom she would have lost in case of a marriage to Beethoven who was "only" a commoner. That was the law and the custom of the nobility at the time. And the narrow-minded snobbery of the Brunsviks only aggravated the emotional distress of the two great lovers.<br>
-Klapproth's book is a treasure trove of quotations from all major documents on the subject in question. He dedicates a separate chapter to the misleading interpretations by the American writer [[Maynard Solomon]] whose psychoanalytic speculations about Beethoven are downright slander. Although they were already clearly refuted by Tellenbach, they are nevertheless, as observed by Klapproth, recommended to the German public by the German "Beethoven-establishment".<br>
-Klapproth's valuable book should be widely distributed, and one must hope that a German translation will follow soon. (Now available at [https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1089345].)
-==Ferocious Support, with Attitude: disquieting the "Academically Minded"!==
-Review by Patricia Stroh in ''The Beethoven Journal'' vol. 26, number 2: The author's aim in this self-published book, geared toward the general reader, is to support ferociously the candidacy of Josephine von Brunswick as Beethoven's [[Immortal Beloved]]. He recounts Josephine's life story and her entanglements with Beethoven in six parts, moving chronologically from their first meeting in 1799 to Josephine's death in 1821. He liberally documents his arguments with translated excerpts from letters, diaries, and other '''primary sources''' - all '''meticulously footnoted''' - using '''German research that has not been widely accessible to English readers'''. That said, the author's lack of objectivity might disquiet more academically minded readers. In the second part of the book, he provides a brief character study of Josephine's second husband, Christoph von Stackelberg, but mainly focuses on analyzing the text of Beethoven's letters to the [[Immortal Beloved]]. He strongly critiques [[Maynard Solomon]]'s translation and "misinterpretations" of the letters and refutes Solomon's arguments in favor of Antonie Brentano, which he characterizes as an "audacious suggestion." This attitude infiltrates the annotated bibliography of his sources, which contains numerous judgmental statements on publications that go counter to his beliefs. The appendices includes a brief chronology, a comparison of the surviving fragment of Beethoven's diary from 1812 with the Graeffer copy, a list of films about Beethoven, and lists of works mentioned in the text. Includes index.
-==Second Edition==
-''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!'' is now available in a second, revised and extended edition: [http://www.createspace.com/3740694], [http://www.createspace.com/Preview/1097804]. Also in German translation [http://www.createspace.com/3801695], [http://www.createspace.com/Preview/1097147].
-==Beethoven Festival 2012==
-===REPORT of the Opening Event on 14 May 2012===
-“Beethoven in Döbling” – Festive concert with international guests – Book presentation: a new biography on Beethoven to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer’s famous letter to his “Immortal Beloved”.
-The Beethoven Festival 2012 – with the motto “Beethoven in Döbling” – was inaugurated on Monday, 14 May 2012 at the Beethoven Hall in Heiligenstadt, Vienna, with a festive concert in honour of the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous letter “to the [[Immortal Beloved]]”. This event was celebrated in cooperation with the Slovakian Institute of Vienna since Countess [[Josephine Brunsvik]] – acknowledged by most musicologists as the addressee of Beethoven’s letter – was born in today’s [[Slovakia]].
-In connection with this anniversary, the ''Beethoven Center Vienna'' [http://www.beethoven-vienna.at] opened the festival with the presentation of a new biography about Beethoven’s only beloved and her unhappy life story: John E Klapproth’s book ''Beethovens einzige Geliebte: Josephine!'' (2nd edition, also available in the English translation ''Beethoven’s Only Beloved: Josephine!''). This interesting publication offers new insight on the private life of the composer’s cherished piano pupil.
-In his book, the author John E Klapproth, a resident of Greytown, New Zealand, examines Beethoven’s love life in minute detail. He reveals the story about the composer’s secret love and offers the reader a unique glimpse at Beethoven’s personal life. Exactly 200 years ago, Beethoven wrote a passionate, intimate love letter to an unnamed, mysterious woman. Interpreting new documents that were discovered in European archives, Klapproth shows that this letter can only have been written to Countess[[Josephine Brunsvik| Josephine von Brunsvik]], the woman whom Beethoven addressed – also in numerous earlier letters – as his “Only Beloved,” his “Everything” and his “Angel.”
-Klapproth refers in his book to the archival research of Dr. [[Rita Steblin]], the Canadian-born musicologist who lives in [[Vienna]] and who is likewise convinced that the addressee of Beethoven’s famous letter can only be Josephine. Klapproth describes Josephine’s conflict between her love for Beethoven and the strict rules that governed the rigid class structure at that time. To quote Klapproth: “Josephine played an important role in Beethoven’s life, and this biography about Josephine is based on the latest pertinent scholarly research.”
-About the author: Born in West Germany, John E Klapproth moved to New Zealand and also lived for a time in Australia. He studied mathematics and physics in Frankfurt, and sociology and psychology in Regensburg, and then worked as an industrial psychologist and computer programmer. He currently works for the government in Wellington, New Zealand.
-Susanne Rittenauer, the President of the ''Beethoven Center Vienna'' [http://www.beethoven-vienna.at] and the organizer of the Festival, introduced such international guests as Dr. Viera Polakovičová, Embassy Counsellor and Director of the Slovakian Institute in Vienna, Dr. Edita Bugalová, Director of the Music Museum in Bratislava and the Beethoven Museum at Dolná Krupá, Kenichiro Tanaka, the Japanese Cultural Attaché, and – as special guest of honour – John E Klapproth, the Beethoven author who came specially from New Zealand to present his newly-published book: “Beethovens einzige Geliebte: Josephine!” at this festival. The presentation took the form of a dialogue between Klapproth and the well-known ORF moderator Dr. Otto Brusatti. Also among the numerous guests in the historical Beethoven Hall in Heiligenstadt was Mag. Hermine Hackl, the Director of the Biosphere Park in the Vienna Woods. Beethoven loved to go wandering in these nearby woods while he stayed for lengthy periods in Heiligenstadt. (During Beethoven’s era, the villages of Heiligenstadt and Döbling still belonged to Lower Austria; they only became a part of Vienna in 1890.) Also among the guests were: the famous musicologist Dr. [[Rita Steblin]], whose Beethoven research formed the basis of Klapproth’s book; Mag. Johannes Hudelist, the Head of the Tourist Association in Döbling; the actor Fritz von Friedl; and the young Russian violinist Yury Revich.
-The musical offerings at this festival included Beethoven’s Lied “Adelaide” and his song cycle “An die ferne Geliebte” – both performed by the tenor Ernst Lintner and the pianist Susanne Rittenauer – as well as the “Andante favori”, played by the lovely Japanese pianist Keiko Nakai. Two excellent young musicians from Slovakia, the cellist Katarina Hurayova and the pianist Suzanna Kralikova-Pohunkova, performed Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 4 (Op. 102#1).
-==Weblinks==
-*News Release: [http://beforeitsnews.com/press-releases/2011/07/new-biography-introduces-beethovens-only-love-interest-explores-their-doomed-romance-864092.html]
-*CreateSpace ''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!'' [https://www.createspace.com/3561406]. 2nd ed. [http://www.createspace.com/3740694].
-*German transl. (2nd ed.): [http://www.createspace.com/3801695].
-*''Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!'' - Preview [https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1085738]; 2nd ed. [http://www.createspace.com/Preview/1097804].
-*Review in ''Tomorrow's Schools Today'': [http://www.tstnz.com/BookArchive/K/KlapprothJohn.html]
-*Review in ''The Beethoven Journal'': [http://www.readperiodicals.com/201112/2646166901.html#b]
-*German transl. (2nd ed.) - Preview: [http://www.createspace.com/Preview/1097147].
-*AuthorPage on ''Amazon'': [https://www.amazon.com/author/johnklapproth]
-*Radio NZ ''Upbeat'' on Friday 21 October 2011: John E Klapproth, NZ based German author of "Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine". [http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/audio/2500806/john-klapproth] [http://castroller.com/Podcasts/UpbeatWithEva/2647046]
-*''ForeWord'' Reviews: [http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/beethovens-only-beloved/]
-*''Beethoven-Festival'' in Wien: [http://www.beethoven-vienna.at/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen_1.html];[http://regionaut.meinbezirk.at/horn/kultur/beethovens-einzige-geliebte-josephine-d186446.html];[http://www.myartists.eu/news/neues-beethoven-publikation/].
-*Trials and Tribulations [https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Trials_and_Tribulations]
-*The Wisdom of Solomon [https://www.academia.edu/6646618/The_Wisdom_of_Solomon]
-*All About Beethoven's Immortal Beloved (Notes on Translation)[https://www.academia.edu/5496313/All_About_Beethovens_Immortal_Beloved_Notes_on_Translation_]
-*Tellenbach English Intro[https://www.academia.edu/6573915/Tellenbach_English_Intro]
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