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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Was Called “Moor” For His Swarthy Complexion

Guinevere Jackson
24 December 2022
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Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music. His career has conventionally been divided into early, middle, and late periods. His early period, during which he forged his craft, is typically considered to have lasted until 1802. From 1802 to around 1812, his middle period showed an individual development from the styles of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and is sometimes characterized as heroic. During this time, he began to grow increasingly deaf. In his late period, from 1812 to 1827, he extended his innovations in musical form and expression.

Beethoven Was Surrounded By So-Called BLACK Men Because He To Was BLACK

Beethoven was born in Bonn. His musical talent was obvious at an early age. He was initially harshly and intensively taught by his father Johann van Beethoven. Beethoven was later taught by the composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe, under whose tutelage he published his first work, a set of keyboard variations, in 1783. He found relief from a dysfunctional home life with the family of Helene von Breuning, whose children he loved, befriended, and taught piano. At age 21, he moved to Vienna, which subsequently became his base, and studied composition with Haydn. Beethoven then gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist, and he was soon patronized by Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky for compositions, which resulted in his three Opus 1piano trios (the earliest works to which he accorded an opus number) in 1795. [1]

He helped galvanise the US civil rights movement, and today sparks intense debate about cultural dominance and the musical canon. In his 250th anniversary year can we listen to Beethoven and what he represents with fresh ears

Exactly 80 years after Beethoven’s death, in 1907, the British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor began speculating that Beethoven was black. Colderidge-Taylor was mixed race – with a white English mother and a Sierra Leonean father – and said that he couldn’t help noticing remarkable likenesses between his own facial features and images of Beethoven’s. Having recently returned from the segregated US, Coleridge-Taylor projected his experiences there onto the German composer. “If the greatest of all musicians were alive today, he would find it impossible to obtain hotel accommodation in certain American cities.”

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was a British composer and conductor. Said Beethoven had the same complexion as him.

His words would prove prophetic. During the 1960s, the mantra “Beethoven was black” became part of the struggle for civil rights. By then Coleridge-Taylor had been dead for 50 years and was all but forgotten, but as campaigner Stokely Carmichael raged against the deeply ingrained assumption that white European culture was inherently superior to black culture, the baton was passed. “Beethoven was as black as you and I,” he told a mainly black audience in Seattle, “but they don’t tell us that.” A few years earlier, Malcolm X had given voice to that same idea when he told an interviewer that Beethoven’s father had been “one of the blackamoors that hired themselves out in Europe as professional soldiers”.

“Beethoven was black” became a refrain chanted on a San Francisco soul music radio station and, in 1969, hit mass consciousness when Rolling Stone magazine ran a story headlined: “Beethoven was black and proud!” In 1988, two white students at Stanford University in California, following a heated discussion about music and race, defaced a poster of Beethoven, giving him crude stereotypical African American features, an act reported in the press as an act of racism. [2]

Portrait of George Bridgetower by Henry Edridge, 1790 (Public domain) George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower inspired Beethoven to become a musican (11 October 1778 – 29 February 1860) was a British musician of *African descent. He was a virtuoso violinist who lived in England for much of his life. His playing impressed Beethoven, who made Bridgetower the original dedicatee of his Kreutzer Sonata after they presented its premiere performance. [3] *Bridgetower IS NOT AN AFRICAN NAME. The liars have to say he was of African descent because it would prove that the remnants of the ancient Briton dark race NEVER left England. If being dark skinned attributes to being African, a continent of over 50 countries speaking over 2,000 languages, then the caucasians need to attribute themselves to being from the Caucus Mountains. Two can play the identity game.

Ruddy always meant to be brown with red undertones like many negro’s but the Edomites wanted to hijack that term to. You will NEVER see red animals being called ruddy because it’s a new term.

“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

Citation: 1) Articlew Ludwig van Beethoven. (2022, December 16). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_BeethovenFake portrait Ludwig van Beethoven. (2022, December 16). 2) Philip Clark- Guradian Newspaper Writer Mon 7 Sep 2020 11.47 BST.In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven Portrait bust of Beethoven, in profile to left. Drypoint © The Trustees of the British Museum – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. (2022, December 11). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Coleridge-Taylor – 3) George Bridgetower. (2022, December 14). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bridgetower – Image released to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

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