Kaštiel' Dolná Krupá

The castle of Dolná Krupá was the summer residence of the Brunsvik family. As a part of the Slovak National Museum, it displays a collection of instruments and exhibits about the Brunsviks. The exhibition was renovated several times, lastly in 2003. Beethoven was friendly with the family, especially with the children of the house: Therèse, Josephine and Franz. Several compositions were dedicated to them. Josephine is said – with good, but not decisive arguments ─ to have been the composer’s unsterbliche Geliebte (immortal beloved). The composer visited Dolná Krupá more than once, perhaps he composed in the present ‘Beethoven pavilion’ next to the castle, but for sure not the Mondschein Sonata, as it is claimed here.