Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>OH NO, PLEASE NOT AGAIN!!!
It seems some threads tend to pop up again and again...but please don't
SCREAM I get earache!
>This is predicated as far as I can tell, on a single fact: that Beethoven
>was in his youth referred to as "Der Schwarzer", literally "the black".
Nope. Beethoven was in his youth called "Der Spagnol" [eng. "The Spaniard"]
because his eyes and hair was very dark. But thats all. I have never heard
any reference to "Der Schwarzer".
Andreas von Doebeln
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