News from Bonn - Ludwig has Gone

[Michael]

Beethoven has been taken off his pedestal in Bonn for restoration purposes:

Now Beethoven gets taken down - Slipped DiscSlipped Disc | The inside track on classical music and related cultures, by Norman Lebrecht (slippedisc.com)

[Megan]

Is this the one Michael?

[Peter]

Let's hope it's not some undercover PC excuse, they'd better put him back in 6 months!

[Michael]

I can't understand why they didn't start refurbishing in 2019 along with all the other preparations for the (aborted) 2020 festivities.

[Quijote]

Let's hope it's not some undercover PC excuse, they'd better put him back in 6 months!

Nah, can't be that as you may remember there was some brouhaha a few years ago about Beethoven being black!

[Harvey]

This I like. Story here, click on "Learn more": https://www.beethoven.de/en/news/vie...emist+contexts

[Megan]

The destruction of statues of course , is an attempt to obliterate history itself. Liberals are very keen on this because the past for them is simply a chapter of darkness ignorance and errors. The curious thing is that Beethoven had more than a smattering in him of revolutionary liberalism.it is doubtful that he could be persuaded to retain memorials of the past if someone could persuade him that these statues were an obstacle to the glorious new dawn of humanity. So what we are saying is , Beethoven was very naive politically. He was very aware of the slaughter and bloodshed of innocents during the French Revolution , and also the destruction of beautiful artefacts, stained glass windows, cathedrals damaged, tombs overturned, heads in baskets. But there is not one word he ever said (that is at least recorded) that he spoke a word of protest about this. So we can only presume that he was in favour of the revolution and its chaos , bloodshed and ferocity.
Any attempt to whitewash Beethoven on this account simply doesn't work.
For all his staggering musical genius, through his ideas of freedom, and brotherhood of man, he spread the revolution with no idea of the human cost and consequences.