Beethoven never married. He was engaged to a woman named Giulietta Guiccardi, but her father wouldn't let her marry Beethoven.
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When Beethoven's brother Karl died in 1815, Beethoven became obsessed with gaining custody of his nine-year-old nephew Karl (Jr.). He hated the boy's mother and felt she was an unfit parent.