Many claim that your were entirely devoted to your wife Constanze. Others claims that you had affairs. Which claim do you agree with?
By the way, I love your music and I think you are a genius!
Your loyal fan,
Dianna
Dear Dianna,
My, but this is a complicated and delicate question, one that would be better answered by historians and sociologists, not by little me who has no knowledge of these great matters. You modern people seem to be rather attached to the subject of marital fidelity, much more so than we of the 18th --and earlier-- centuries.
During my lifetime, marriage for a woman was more about being taken care of financially than about romance, although there was that too for those who were lucky enough to find it. Therefore, physical fidelity was not as valued as it is in your century. What was more important was loyalty of the heart. After all, if a man found love elsewhere he might leave his poor wife (and their children) abandoned and without financial security. Most women did not care what their husbands did with their bodies; it was their hearts with which they were most concerned! They were very good at casting a blind eye to their husbands' activities outside the home.
Like most men of my century, I followed the mores of the times, but I always loved my dear little wife and strove to care for her and our children to the very best of my ability.
Wolfg. Mzt.
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