CHAPTER XXI. Beethoven’s Love-Affairs--Countess Guicciardi--A

Conversation with Schindler about Her Marriage--Schindler’s Contradictory Story--Countess Erdödy--Schindler’s Theory Disproved--The Letter to the “Immortal Beloved”--Critical Study of its Date--Countess Guicciardi Not the Woman Addressed--A Conjecture Concerning the Countess Therese von Brunswick--Other Candidates for the Honor of Being the Object of Beethoven’s Supreme Love--Magdalena Willmann--Amalia Sebald--The Arguments of Kalischer, Mariam Tenger and Marie Lipsins (La Mara) Set Forth by the Editor of this Biography--Statements of Relations and Descendants of the Countesses Guicciardi and von Brunswick--The Memoirs of the Countess Therese--Later French Investigations 317