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The unsent letter is written in pencil on 10 small pages. Beethoven did not specify a year or a location. In the s an analysis of the paper's watermark yielded the year, and by extension the place of the letter. Scholars disagree about the intended recipient of the letter. Two people favored by most contemporary scholars are Antonie Brentano [ 1 ] and Josephine Brunsvik.

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That Josephine could have been the unknown woman was subsequently suggested by analyses of similarities in wordings and phrases between earlier letters from to and this mysterious one from , mainly in the monographs by Massin , , Goldschmidt and Tellenbach , p. This, together with interviews of some of the Brunsvik descendants, led her to the conclusion that Therese must have been the "Immortal Beloved".

At first most researchers, including Alexander Wheelock Thayer , [ 17 ] also thought Therese was the "Immortal Beloved". Thayer thought the letter must have been written around — Thomas-San-Galli , checked out the official listings of guests in Bohemia , and at first in concluded that Amalie Sebald was the "Immortal Beloved". Sebald was definitely not in Prague at the beginning of July , and Cooper consequently ruled her out as a candidate.

La Mara , after discovering more letters and notes in the Brunsvik estates, was now convinced "that Czeke , for the first time, published Therese's diary notes ending in ; some were known already to Rolland Kaznelson [ de ] evaluated more of the documents in the Brunsvik estates, and even though he thought that Rahel Varnhagen was behind the "Distant Beloved" he concluded that the "Immortal Beloved" must have been Josephine mainly because her daughter Minona was born exactly nine months after the encounter with Beethoven and her husband Baron Stackelberg was away.

Marek argued the case for Dorothea Ertmann. Ley saw it differently: "Only on the negative side has one been able to arrive at certain conclusions: neither Giulietta Guicciardi, nor Amalie Sebald, nor Bettina Brentano can be considered any longer, and not even Therese Brunsvik , who for a long time was seriously regarded as the recipient of the famous love letter.

But curiously enough, it is precisely the same documents which shed a definitive light, in the negative sense, on Therese which bear witness to Beethoven's passionate love for her sister Josephine.