BLACK LIKE Ludwig Van Beethoven
In the Southern States Beethoven would have been forced to ride in the jim-crow car. From J.A. Roger's work, "100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO WITH COMPLETE PROOF", written in 1957. Alexander W. Thayer, perhaps the foremost authority on Beethoven, says, "Beethoven had even more of the Moor in his features than his master, 'Haydn.'" (Beethoven, Vol. I, p. 146). By "Moor" was meant "Negro." Until recent times, the German for "Negro" was "Mohr." Beethoven's family originated in Belgium, which had been ruled for centuries by the Black Spaniards called Moors.
The immortal Haydn, who was Beethoven's teacher,… "Everybody knows the incident at Kismarton or Eisenstadt, the residence of Prince Esterhazy. In the middle of the first allegro of Haydn's symphony, His Highness asked the name of the author. He was brought forward. "'What!' exclaimed the Prince, 'the music is by this Blackamoor?
'Well, my fine Blackamoor, henceforward, thou art in my service.'" Beethoven's mother is said to be a "Moor”. In short, the general description of Beethoven, even to his frizzly hair, fits that of many an Aframerican or West Indian mulatto. Frederick Hertz, German anthropologist, in "Race and Civilization," refers twice to Beethoven's "Negroid traits"
and his "dark" skin, and "flat, thick nose." Frau Fischer, an intimate acquaintance of Beethoven, describes him thus,
"blackish-brown complexion, Short, stocky, broad shoulders, short neck, round nose.”
(From R. H. Schauffler,
The Man Who Freed Music, Vol. I, p. 18, 1929). Everything indicates that Beethoven, one of the greatest musical composers of all times, was Black.
Why aren't we generally taught this?
I’m reminded: though I’m troubled on every side, but I’m not distressed; I’m perplexed, but not in despair; I’m persecuted, but not forsaken; I’m cast down, but not destroyoud… for which cause I faint not; but though our outward man perish, yout the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory!