Hi, Nick : I am totally amazed to see a map of IEPER in a BEETHOVEN Forum... You did a good work. Next time you go to IEPER go to "LE MIROIR" on the Grotemarkt (my fathers's quarters...). And take a Gordon scotch, my prefered beer...
Peter : Yes of course you are again right : those illnesses were changing the basis of B.s character. Everywhere he is mentionned to have had a "good sens of humour" (and it appears a lot in his correspondance.To write such music he must have been really a generous heart. Bu, also, he had some particularities which are typical flemish, and his features were more those of his grandfather, whose portrait he kept his life long.
Yes, Yes, I am proud to have something in common as "old" Ludwig : flemish heredity !!!
The origins of the B. s family are BRUGGE, ANTWERPEN, GENT and MECHELEN...
Do you know that now the Karls's van BEETHOVEN descendants are called URBAN
and WEIDINGER ? They are all located in WIEN or in the surroundings. I have all the details if you are interested to meet them once !!! (Hélas no musicians...).
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Claudie
Peter : Yes of course you are again right : those illnesses were changing the basis of B.s character. Everywhere he is mentionned to have had a "good sens of humour" (and it appears a lot in his correspondance.To write such music he must have been really a generous heart. Bu, also, he had some particularities which are typical flemish, and his features were more those of his grandfather, whose portrait he kept his life long.
Yes, Yes, I am proud to have something in common as "old" Ludwig : flemish heredity !!!
The origins of the B. s family are BRUGGE, ANTWERPEN, GENT and MECHELEN...
Do you know that now the Karls's van BEETHOVEN descendants are called URBAN
and WEIDINGER ? They are all located in WIEN or in the surroundings. I have all the details if you are interested to meet them once !!! (Hélas no musicians...).
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Claudie
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