European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Stripes daily Magazine beet Ioven s Bonn by it Laidla of by John Weyland a staff writer on a Small Side Street in . Stands a building casual passersby Seldom Nolle. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born there in 1770. His Birthplace turned in part into Abar was slated to a torn Down 119 years later n 1880. A handful of Rich music lovers saved it after the City refused to pay the modest Purchase Price of 3,000mark. During world War in incendiary bombs fell on the roof but were removed before fire could Start. All other houses that Beethoven occupied in Bonn were destroyed by Allied air attacks. Fate does not favor me the then unrecognized Young Genius once wrote. Atthe age of 22. He left the City of his birth for Vienna. He never Beethoven s time Bonn was a provincial capital the seat of archbishops who exercised secular Power Over one of the Small German states. Beethoven s father worked As a Singer in the court choir. The family rented Small Plain House near the archbishop s Palace now the University of was born in a Low cell longed Gar ret room with a single window. Exactly when nobody knows though presumably in december As he was baptised a week before Garret room stands empty today except for a bust of the composer is a defiant Young years ago. The family n in in inn furniture was destroyed when a firebug entered the House As a sightseer and touched off the sitting room after dousing it with beet havens moved elsewhere in Bonn when Ludwig was four. This was about the time the father started to Tench his eldest Nan music. At 15, when Ludwig know the piano violin Voln and Organ he was Hind i a member at the court orchestra. He stayed on in Bonn another seven i hrs then left for the world s musical capital Vienna where to wrote his great two Brothers joined him there. His father and Mother had did. No full ties were left to take him Buck to his the time Beethoven s Birthplace wait put up for Sale he was immortalized alone of humanity s greatest creative nil Lati _ but As Many a Nix families were ust Wreath decorate room where composer was born. By Carl fuck Steger a staff writer Beethoven s last piano the tones of which he could never hear i being restored for use in concerts. Until recently the piano stood la the House where Beethoven was born in Bonn. When somebody had the idea of playing it experts found that it had become unusable. Beethoven died in 1827.it has been sent to Nuernberg for Resto ration expected to take about three Schmidt Goerg head of the beet Hoven Archive in Bonn said the piano would be played for audiences of 80 to 100 in the living room of the Beethoven House. The House still has much of its original said the plane was specially built for the composer after he be Gan to lose his hearing. It has four strings for each note instead of the usual three and a special resonance Box to strengthen the . By the time it was finished beet Hoven was too deaf to hear it Schmidt Goerg explained that Beethoven owned this piano and another at the time of his death. The other Wae a English Broad Wood instrument. Fraas lint the Hun Garian composer bought it after beet Hoven died. It has since disappeared. The one now owned by the City of Bonn was acquired from a Swiss family at theand of the last Century. Schmidt Goerg said he did not know How the Swiss family came into Possession of it. Living in the Dek i routed House and its adjoining building. Under the private group that set up the present shrine a painstaking Restora Tion was carried out. The in Ide Walls were painted the Pink and Green pastels that research showed had been their color in the late Isth Century. The Plank floor were cleaned the ceilings real entered. Articles associated with Beethoven we recollected und put on display a piano he used to play his death mask manuscripts of his compositions two Tufts of hair take from his Corpse a monocle he sometimes wore he lust pen with which he was known to have written some of his let ters and collection of plaque was Hung High up on the of Cade but to this Day nothing at Eye Livi identifies the Birthplace which stand flush on the narrow Bon Gauss and faces a toy shop. A showcase presents visitors with mule testimony to the great tragedy of the com Poser s life. Four ear trumpets a Laid out in order of in rousing size. The Hie rest looks like an old a i on de water dipper and was held in place by a heavy steel band fitting Over the head. Beethoven a cd this in a last it Perale Effort to hour his Muiloc before being shut off from it forever by total deafness. It to in a Garret room of Thil in Bonn that Ludwig Van Beethoven a bom in 1770. Monday. April 15, 1963 and str1pk Beethoven spent hit Moil creative Yean in Vienna. Fog ii
