Bettina Von Arnim

Novelist

Bettina Von Arnim was born in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany on April 4th, 1785 and is the Novelist. At the age of 73, Bettina Von Arnim biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
April 4, 1785
Nationality
Germany
Place of Birth
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Death Date
Jan 20, 1859 (age 73)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Profession
Composer, Illustrator, Novelist, Salonnière, Singer, Writer
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Ludwig Achim von Arnim
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Siblings
Sophie von La Roche (grandmother), Clemens Brentano (brother), Gisela von Arnim (daughter), Herman Grimm (son-in-law)
Bettina Von Arnim Life

Bettina von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) was born on April 1785 to 19 January 1859, and she was a German writer and novelist. Bettina (as well as Bettine) Brentano was a writer, producer, composer, artist, illustrator, mentor of young talent, and a social activist.

She was the archetype of the Romantic period's zeitgeist and the point of several influential canonical artistic careers.

She numbered among her closest friends, Goethe, Beethoven, and Pückler, who were most well-known for the company, and she sought to foster artistic unity among them.

Many leading composers of the time, including Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johanna Kinkel, and Johannes Brahms, lauded her spirit and talent.

Von Arnim's style as a composer was experimental, molding and combining favorite folk melodies and historical themes with sophisticated harmonies, phrase lengths, and improvisations that became synonymous with the period's music.

She was closely related to German writers Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim: the first brother was her brother, the second her husband.

Gisela von Arnim, her daughter's mother, became a well-known writer.

Franz and Lujo Brentano's nephews were sent by her brother Christian to Franz and Lujo Brentano.

Family and early life

Bettina von Arnim was born in Frankfurt, Main, into the entire Brentano family of an Italian merchant company. Sophie von La Roche's grandmother, a novelist, and her brother, Clemens Brentano, was a great poet known for his lyric poems, libretti, and Singspiele. He was a mentor and protector to her, and he encouraged her to read the poetry of the period, especially Goethe. Bettina was dubbed 'the kobold' by her brothers and sisters from an early age, a term she retained later in Berlin life.

Bettina lived with her grandmother in Offenbach am Main from 1794 to 1806, the most famous jurist in Marburg, after being educated at an Ursulines convent school from 1794 to 1797. Karoline von Günderrode and her comrade developed a friendship. The two friends denied that only natural instincts, laws, and lifestyles of life were to blame, and that they became angry about the "tyranny" of conventionalities. Günderrode committed suicide in 1896 after the philologist Georg Friedrich Creuzer took inspiration. Goethe, for whom she had a keen interest in 1807, was a patron for whom the poet did not requite, despite beginning to correspond with her. Bettina's friendship with Goethe's wife came to an end in 1811, owing to Bettina's behaviour with Goethe's wife.

Bettina married Achim von Arnim, the well-known Romantic poet and descendant of the illustrious Arnim family, in 1811. The couple first met at the Wiepersdorf castle and then in Berlin. They had seven children.

Achim died in 1831, but Bettina lived a long and happy life. Goethe's Passion for Goethe has revived, and in 1835, she published her book Goethe's Correspondence with a Child, which appeared to be a meeting between herself and the poet, which transpired. The book is largely fictional. Genuine sonnets of Goethe were sent, not to her but to Minna Herzlieb. The book has been praised as a work of fiction.

She continued to write, inspire, and publish until 1859, when she died in Berlin, surrounded by her children, aged 73. Her grave is in the Wiepersdorf churchyard.

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Bettina Von Arnim Career

Career

Von Arnim aided in the production of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, her brother's and her future husband, Achim von Arnim, during the years 1806 to 1808. A number of composers, including Gustav Mahler, later put the songs to music, and several of them were later put to music. The collection served as a touchstone of Romantic musical and poetic style. She studied voice, composition, and piano in Munich under Peter von Winter and Sebastian Bopp, 1808 to 1809. She released her first album under the pseudonym Beans Beor, which she also used later. Bettina performed briefly in the Berliner Singakademie and compiled Hellenistic poems by Amalie von Helvig.

Despite the fact that domestic obligations related to her 1811 marriage to von Arnim stifled her income, several art songs from the period have been recovered and released in Werke und Briefe. Von Arnim was the first composer to bring the poet Hölderlin's work to life.

She was a muse to Prussia's democratic revolution and a defender of the oppressed Jewish people. She produced two politically dissident books but avoided chastisement because of her relationship with the King of Prussia.

Bettina continued her service to the creative community following her husband's death in 1831. Gaspare Spontini, the Russian music director, had released a set of seven songs in public support of the artist, who was under duress at the time.

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