By "W"
Mon, Oct 5, 2020 4:07 p.m.Was Beethoven Black?
https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2020/09/29/feature-beethoven-black/?utm_source=LUDWIG+VAN+TORONTO+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fe4b9313d6-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_57cdb68eac-fe4b9313d6-309165661&ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)
"W": She also mentions Haydn as looking like a Moor. At the end, note the BS from a female prof at the U of Michigan. I wonder how many Whites "they" wish were black?
They did this crap back in the Sixties. The ancestry of Ludwig know 100 % without qualification. Flemish [white].
ReplyDeletejerry pdx
ReplyDeleteA better title for this would be: "Beethoven was not black. Period".
A little review of the "evidence" quickly reveals that there is no evidence of this so called black ancestry. The article points out one of the reason people thought he might be black was because he chose to associate with a mulatto violinist George Bridgetower. That's interesting because it is historically noted that Bridgetower had black ancestry and he was not nearly as well known as Beethoven, yet there is no historical record of Beethoven having any black ancestry. Why would a much less famous man be known to be black while a very famous one (alleged to be black) not known to be black also? Beethoven and Bridgetower performed together publicly and were friends for a while but there is no historical record of anybody noting they were both black.
There are many full color portraits of Beethoven, one also when he was child and other sketches as a young man but there is no indication of any mixed race ancestry, his childhood portrait shows a rosy cheeked clearly white child with nothing remotely suggestive of any mixed ancestry. However, it's clear he was not blue eyed and blonde haired, his appearance was more suggestive of a Southern European more than a nordic but that doesn't remotely mean somebody is part black, though in those days, people might have thought of you as the "black of the day" since people of African ancestry were far less common than they are today.
It's a contrived argument created by Afrosupremists who continue to lie like hell about Beethoven.