Beethoven Black. Theophile Gautier speaks of a Belgian type. One thing is for sure: though Beethoven surely had a dark complexion, he didn't have a black or.
These unfounded tales may be based on Beethoven's dark complexion or the fact that his ancestors. They claim Ludwig von Beethoven, the famed German composer, was black. Every depiction I can find of him clearly depicts him as a white man.
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We know who all Ludwig van Beethoven's ancestors were, going back generations, and none of them that we know of were Moorish or African in any sense.
See more ideas about Beethoven, Black excellence, African history. Does this claim hold any water? That Beethoven may have been black is pure trivia—a did-you-know factoid for the classical music enthusiast.