In September 1797, prosperous Frankfurt merchant Franz Brentano (1765-1844), the half-brother of authors Clemens Brentano (1778-1842) and Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), sent his half-sister, Sophie Brentano (1776-1800), and his stepmother Friederike Brentano née von Rottenhof (1771-1817) to Vienna to meet Antonie.
Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, German writer and novelist
After their wedding in 1811 Achim and Bettina von Arnim until 1814 lived at the neighbouring Palais Voss.
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The composers presented the score to Joachim on 28 October at a soirée in the Schumann household, which Bettina von Arnim and her daughter Gisela also attended.
In 1841 he moved to Berlin and the circle of Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859) and Achim von Arnim (1781-1831) and began publishing drama and novels.