To: AnAmericanMother
Beethoven was German.....
10 posted on
05/25/2025 12:59:33 PM PDT by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: JBW1949
Beethoven was born in Bonn, a city in the Rhineland, and his first language was probably French.
15 posted on
05/25/2025 1:07:48 PM PDT by
Publius
To: JBW1949
He was born in Germany, but his family was from Brabant in what is now Belgium - and they were proud of it. Hence the “Van” instead of “Von”. It caused problems for Beethoven later - when a court in Austria assumed he was of noble lineage (”Von”), when they found out he was actually a “Van” they dismissed the case.
33 posted on
05/25/2025 4:48:42 PM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
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