Immortal Beloved - Timeline
- 1770 Beethoven born in Bonn
- 1774 First version of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther published; final version in 1787
- 1789 French Revolution
- 1792 Beethoven moves to Vienna at the age of 22
- 1800 Relationship with Countess Giulietta Guicciardi begins; Beethoven by now famous throughout Europe
- 1801 This year is a candidate for when the Immortal Beloved letters were written
- 1801 Beethoven’s first intense fears of oncoming deafness
- 1802 Beethoven writes “The Heiligenstadt Testament”; he is 32
- 1804 Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor; Eroica Symphony finished
- 1804 Relationship with Therese and Josephine Brunsvik intensifies
- 1805 Napoleon occupies Vienna
- 1805 Fidelio first performed
- 1807 Relationship with Countess Anna Marie Erdödny (lasts till 1817)
- 1807 The second year that the letters may have been written
- 1809 Napoleon again occupies Vienna
- 1810 Relationship with Antonie and Bettina Brentano begins (they last till 1812)
- 1812 The third year the letters may have been written (this is most favored). He is 42.
- 1827 Beethoven dies aged 57
- 1860 Schindler biography: Beethoven As I Knew Him: A Biography
- 1866 Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s biography begins publication (through 1879)
- 1902 Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze
- 1927 O.G. Sonneck’s The Riddle of the Immortal Beloved
- 1954 Richard and Edith Sterba’s book, Beethoven’s Nephew
- 1959 Dana Steichen’s biography, Beethoven’s Beloved
- 1977 Maynard Solomon biography, Beethoven