Conducted by NORMAN NANKERVIS
Relayed from The National Trades and Industrial Exhibition, Bingley Hall ,
Birmingham

by VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON
WHETHER OR NO she was the 'immortal beloved' to whom Beethoven was true in heart for most of his life, the ' little lady Countess ' to whom he dedicated this sonata had him in thrall for years. How far he was right in thinking that she returned his love, we cannot guess; she married a younger and handsomer suitor, and one of her own station of life-Count Gallenberg.
Along with her Brunswick cousins,
'la belle Guicciardi' was a pupil of Beethoven's, one from whom he refused to accept payment for his teaching: she made him instead a present of a dozen shirts, stitched by her own dainty fingers. She drew a portrait of him, too. Beethoven may well have thought him3elf a favoured wooer.