Zebrahead - Hello Tomorrow

Cayetan Giannatasio del Rio almost frankly offered Beethoven his older daughter as a wife. It would seem that Fanny was perfectly suited for the role of a faithful and all-understanding wife: she knew about Beethoven’s poor health, she wasn’t frightened by his outbursts of anger or attacks of misanthropy, her appearance did not seem “ugly”; she was musical enough to perform not the most difficult of his works. Finally, she was kind, modest and economical. But he resolutely refused the last chance in his life to start a family, preferring loneliness that was painful for him.