The Woman Who Got the Moonlight by Accident
Beethoven meant to dedicate a different piece to her. A poet who never met her named it. She wasn't thinking about any of this — she was working the Congress of Vienna as an informal diplomatic emissary while Metternich and Talleyrand redrew the map. Giulietta Guicciardi: the woman who got the moonlight by accident.
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