This book contains previously-unpublished research on Beethoven by Susan Lund. Together with her earlier articles, "Beethoven: a True "Fleshly Father"?"; "If One Has Only One Son" (both reprinted in her novel Raptus) & "The Visit That Beethoven Did Not Make" (Beethoven Journal/San Jose), Beethoven & The Catholic Brentanos completes her work on Beethoven. "It really doesn"t matter with whom Beethoven slept nor whom Beethoven fathered unless it affects the music. I maintain that it does."