However, the names of the women he loved, often with reciprocity, are known. These women generally came from the aristocracy, and since the composer did not boast of noble origins, he could not marry any of them at that time. He dedicated his works to many women. One of them was Giulietta Guicciardi, whose name he immortalized in the piano sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27/2, called "Moonlight Sonata". Beethoven was even engaged to her, but her father did not agree to the wedding.
There were many women with whom he maintained friendly relations, one of them was Bettina Brentano (also Goethe's friend), Therese Malfatti, and the Hungarian aristocrat Anna Maria Erdody, whom the composer called his confessor.
