Beethoven
Beethoven: The Black-a-Moors of Europe – by ReelDeel
Frederick Hertz, German anthropologist, in “Race and Civilization,” refers twice to Beethoven’s “Negroid traits” and his “dark” skin, and “flat, thick nose.” (pp. 123 and 178).
Frau Fischer, an intimate acquaintance of Beethoven, describes him thus, “Short, stocky, broad shoulders, short neck, round nose, blackish-brown complexion.” (From r. H. Schauffler, The Man Who Freed Music, Vol. I, p. 18, 1929).
In speaking of the immortal Haydn who was Beethoven’s teacher, Andre de Hevesy, says: “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.’”
Carpani, who originally related this says that “Haydn’s complexion gave room for the sarcasm.” And that Haydn had the title of “second professor of music but his new comrades called him The Moor.” (G. Carpani: Le Haydn, etc. Letter 5. Milan, 1812).
Referring to the above incident, 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.”
Paul Bekker, another very noted authority on Beethoven, says that “the most faithful picture of Beethoven’s head” shows him with “wide, thick lipped mouth, short, thick nose, and proudly arched forehead.” (Beethoven, p. 41, 1925. trans. Bozman). Thayer adds that Beethoven was an ugly little man, and no one would be more astonished than the great composer should he return and see how he has been idealized by sculptors and painters.
Beethoven’s family originated in Belgium, which had been ruled for centuries by the Spaniards, who had large numbers of Negro soldiers in their army there. Theophile Gautier speaks of a Belgian type characterized by brown skin and dark hair “a second race which the soldiers of the Spanish Duke of Alva have sown between Brussels and Cambrai.”
In short, the general description of Beethoven, even to his frizzly hair, fits that of many an Aframerican or West Indian mulatto. In the Southern States Beethoven would have been forced to ride in the jim-crow car.
See also: Rogers, J.A., “Sex and Race,” Vol. I, pp. 288, 289,302 (1941) for other data on Beethoven’s Negro strain, one of which is from the new York Times. Also p. 8 for portrait of Beethoven drawn from life by Hofel, which clearly shows the Negro strain. For more extended proof as well as a picture of Beethoven’s life-mask see Sex and Race, Vol. 3, pp. 306-309.
Now, I will admit that there is nothing indicated here that Beethoven was a “mullatto,” in it’s strictest sense, which meant, literally, the offspring of a white woman and a black man (or vice-versa). And THAT hasn’t been proven otherwise. “Mullatto” was often misused as meaning “light-skinned blacks.” However, when one explores the accepted definition of “race” as it relates to black people, the U.S. definition seems to have been (and continues to be) that “If you have one drop of ‘black’ blood in your lineage, you’re black.
I contend that, with all of the above evidence, one must conclude that Beethoven was AT LEAST of African descent. Perhaps not a ‘mullatto (1/2 black,’ ‘quadroon (1/4 black),’ or ‘octaroon (1/8 black),’ as the old terminology went. But, if he WASN’T black, then many people of African descent in the U.S. today would have to be excluded from being black as well, especially given Mr. Roger’s accounts of Beethoven’s descriptions.
Information like this will be in the best interest to all. Open your minds to accept history of this magnitude and to educate your children and parents about truth, truth which was hidden for most of our time on earth. Turned in to learn and never to be fooled ever again about whom you and we are; from whom we come, and the lands from which we came. Open your minds to deal with truth.
Information like this will not be accepted by whites. I’m sorry but it won’t be. Whites have spent too much time and effort trying to rewrite history to reflect that only Anglos have contributed to the great works in the world. From them claiming that aliens created the pyramids in Africa, to stating that the term “Moor” referred to anything else but Africans of dark or brown complexions. The term Moor actually meant black, dark or swarthy, but today’s so-called scholars try to make it imply Arab or muslim, even though the Moors predate Mohammad or the Persian invasion of Northern Africa.
Beethoven could have looked like an original member of the Jackson 5 but his portraits will always look like Michael in the 1990′s for the same reason no one has ever heard of John Hanson, a Moor, who was the first black president of America.
No matter your sources, people with agendas will always seek to “spin” what they are not comfortable with. The whole “one drop of negro blood makes you a negro” law is coming back to haunt White people under their own guidelines.
Information like this is always stimulating for me a student of the Black Man’s history which is actually the history of this world. Our history has been suppressed or destroyed but not completely obliterated. My stepfather told me of a great race of Black Kings and Queens when I was thirteen. It was decades later when I began discovering relics of truth to the origin of who the Black Man was. I learned that the slave trade was not as far reaching as his-tory teaches. The Black Man was everywhere in Kemet/Kmt/Egypt/Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands and of course Australia before our white brothers were conceived. WE were the residents of the planet. We are the civilizers of this world; the astronomers, the mathematicians, astrologers, scientists, and artists. Egypt, Songhai, Mali, Timbuktu, Ghana, Zanzibar were some of the Black nations that studied the planetary system. May I add also this piece of information which is known to some but not to many that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are copies of the teachings of Kemet/KMT the true name of Egypt. The Old and New Testament of the Bible is A Black Man’s Bible. What a rich heritage WE have. I am like a kid in the candy store of knowledge. As a pastor this information of Christianity rocked me to the core BUT I recovered. I had to replace anger with love as the Spirit of God instructed me. This information must be passed on to our children. They must know that their ancestors were great navigators of knowledge and wisdom. Lastly, we are not the remnants of slaves in Iran, Iraq, England, Spain and so. We are the remnants of conquerors. Books of interest are Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James, Destruction of Black Civilization, African Presence in Early Asia, African Presence in Early Europe and Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins.