Beethoven's Great Love

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| name = Beethoven's Great Love

| image = File:Beethoven's Great Love.jpg

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| director = Abel Gance

| producer = Michel Kagansky
Christian Stengel

| writer = Abel Gance
Steve Passeur

| narrator =

| starring = Harry Baur
Annie Ducaux
Jany Holt

| music = Philippe Gaubert

| cinematography = Marc Fossard
Robert Lefebvre

| editing = Marguerite Beaugé
André Galitzine

| studio = Général Productions

| distributor = Éclair-Journal

| released = {{Film date|1936|12|07|df=y}}

| runtime = 135 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| budget =

| gross =

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Beethoven's Great Love (French: Un grand amour de Beethoven is a 1936 French historical musical drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux and Jany Holt.King p.243{{Cite book|last1=Karney|first1=Robyn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qPiFi6stlJ4C&q=The+Life+and+Love+of+Beethoven+Gance+December+7th+1936|title=Cinema Year by Year: The Complete Illustrated History of Film|last2=Finler|first2=Joel Waldo|last3=Bergan|first3=Ronald|date=2006|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|isbn=978-0-7566-2259-6|language=en}} It portrays the career of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. In Britain and the United States it was sometimes alternatively titled The Life and Loves of Beethoven.

It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.

Plot

In Vienna in the early 19th century, while Beethoven works as a musical tutor, two of Beethoven's pupils are in love with him. One ends up marrying a count instead while the other spends years of unrequited love as his fiancée. Beethoven moves to Heiligenstadt to dedicate himself to his music, and overcoming his growing deafness, composes a series of masterworks.