Jeff Tedford wrote:

>I've heard it confidently stated,with the air of a known fact, that
>Beethoven was black.  ...

I have forgotten who came up with this suggestion, but as far as I am
concerned, it belongs to the same category as those of Brahms being born
in Chile or Homerus having lived in Britain.

Johan van Veen
Utrecht (Netherlands)
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