It was a 10-page rough draft written in pencil to someone Beethoven called "My Immortal Beloved." It begins, "My angel, my all, my own self." The letter is a complete swirl of emotions ...

Now, as we near the midpoint of the ’90s, comes Bernard Rose’s similarly reductive film about Ludwig van Beethoven, “Immortal Beloved,” starring Gary Oldman as the tormented German composer.

That is demonstrated again in Immortal Beloved, the new film that centers on a love letter Beethoven left behind. It’s not unusual for a movie to mix fact and fancy. What’s remarkable this ...

Immortal Beloved – the latest entry in the tradition of classical-music art films – takes as its point of departure a letter that Ludwig van Beethoven wrote shortly before his death in 1827.

I’ve been reflecting on the doomed romance between Beethoven and his mysterious Immortal Beloved. In 1957, passionate letters between him and Josephine Brunsvik were discovered that made some ...

Just think: if they had been free to marry, we might have had nine more symphonies. (Pictured below: Beethoven's letter to his "immortal beloved") What about the 10 per cent of doubt? The only way to ...

The biographical movie “Immortal Beloved” takes Ludwig van Beethoven, the matchless composer who stormed the heavens from his prison of deafness, and plops him into the middle of a campy ...

Beethoven's affair with an unnamed woman yielded to history one of the great love letters of all time, otherwise known as the Immortal Beloved letter. Written over the course of 2 days ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous letters from 1812 left behind a mystery about the identity of the person he addressed as his “Immortal Beloved” that has lasted over two centuries. The mystery ...

Who was Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved”? They’ll search endlessly, even if their quest hits a series of dead ends. Others avoid such foolishness, preferring to stick to their books, leaving the wild ...

Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery ...