Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Beethoven, the Black Spaniard" was the title of an article by Deborah Moseley, concerning the life of Ludwig Von Beethoven. The article presented a case about this long and enduring claim, that the greatest composer known to man was actually a Moor, a black of Spanish recrude. The left and right of this matter concerning Beethoven's personal life and orginality is seriously known to me but I will like you to visit the page and draw your own conclusions. There is a world of information about the Moors which Nigerians are not entirely privy to and I intend to bring them to that world of information. The 'Moor' which is Greek and Latin patios for Blacks, is just a Synonym for Black. But this is a mistake only few historians can correct, but the Moors or the Black Berbers of Africa were the sons of light, sons of civilization for Europe. They were the architect of Modern civilization and ruled Europe for over 400 years and Spain for 700.
In 1492 they were banished from Spain following their defeat to a christain coalition and a civil war in between Moors of Arab retraction and the Moors themselves. The war lasted for many years, and then a resurgent Spanish coalition began to mount a conquest of the winners of the brutal civil war. These were the Blacks of Africa, the people of curved Knives, the people who invented the modern clock, the people who invented the gun powder and the gun, the people who decorated the temples and synagogues of Spain and whose original home in Alhambra of Spain. They invented the compass, they drew the first major map of the world, showing the center of the world is somewhere in the bight of Biafra...this map was thrown away but lately it is now in full use.
The Moors also introduced Opera singing...called Oratorio, in fact I believe I have come accross an old version of Julius Ceaser (named Julius) and the crude quotations of Mark Antony supposedly by Shakespeare possibly from Moorish players. Shakespeare himself cast Othello as a Moor; a black. In Titus Andronicus, the play was all about a Moor; a Black guy with scars on his face, written in 15th century by Shakespeare from an older version. But why was a black Moor that exalted beyond the thinking faculty of other humans? It is because they were the masters of the world. If we find the quotation "sun for spite will not show his face" we mean shakespeare but a Spanish Jew by name Abraham Ben Izra used the line in the 13th century.
The Musicians were mostly of Moorish origin especially and they were the first to write Music in stanzas and in signature. The snake curve of the S is a Moorish sign for honor which has survived through the years. The S was the beginning of time signature. Beethoven in his life acted as he was the superior of his compeers, and that air of superiority was entirely justified only as far Bach, there was something that seem to be relatively peculiar to the sense of himself and the Music. But for all the relativity between Bach and Beethoven, there is something of the undying Philosopher in Beethoven, something of a defender of classical music in Beethoven, he wrote as if he had very little time, like a man on a mission. His deafness which was gradual, his blindness which was gradual, all converged to unleash his real energy that survived the grave.
The truth is that Beethoven could only have been a citizen of humanity after the immortal choral symphony "joyful, joyful, we adore thee" the 9th symphony. His moonlight Sonata is one the most troubling Music known to us, but his 7th symphony/2nd movement called the 'funeral match' defined him as philosopher, where at least in my opinion he argued that life was a transition, that it is a journey that began at some point and only destined to end at a certain point. Beethoven drafted 7 thousand pieces of classical music in his lifetime that included 'Appasionata' the opera 'fidelio' and 5th Symphony called "the invincibility of youth".
After thier defeat, they were scattered all over the world, and returned to North Africa were many died, but the rest went to West Africa and were never heard off again. They were others who rejected Islam because of the Arab problem and became conversos. But they were themselves murdered on sight in Spain or forced to depart. The word Genius started with these people, they were called Genii...which in Arab refers to the spirit. Have you ever wondered why Aladin's Genii of 'Arabian Night' was a black or why Tarzan was Dark. Those Indian looking blacks were the Moors, most them Surfie (Surfo) the wiseguys. They only eat certain foods, thier Artisans trained everyday, 90% percent of them were educated and thier scientist understood all levels of astrology and compass.
I personally believe that they arrived in large numbers in Nigeria. Since thier Major tribes were the Nri or Mri or Meri (Meriotic) and the othe group was the Berber English for B-Oba. But don't mind me I shall demonstrate hwo and why but if you need to enhance your thinking...look at the turtle/penguin necklace outfit of Elizabeth 1 of Shakepeare time and you will see it as an extented version of the turtle neck outfit on the neck of certain piece of art found in Igbo and Nok and sometimes Ife...called the Mask with the double mark on the fore head. The Berbers was also the tribe of St. Augustine, the founding father of Western education. But he was a Christian.
When the Moors left Spain they made thier way to various parts of Europe but after 16 Century reformation that separated the Catholic Church from Protestants, the Moors from mostly musical families landed in Germany. The evolution of Germany as heavy weight in Music was about a century and half later when signature music was much infused with Christian spiritualty, it yielded of the likes of Bach, of Mozart, of Haydn (who is confirmed as a Moor) and Beethoven/the Black Spaniard. Thier families were mostly Kapellmaestros. J.S Bach himself was a Choir master. Beethoven's father was a baritone vocalist and his mother was in fact a Moor. This is the time when the color prejudice has not taken roots in Europe and when Germany was the moral leaders of the world. The rise of these Moors also co-incided with the rise of Germany as a people.
According to the Article by Deborah Moseley, the House where Beethoven lived was a somewhat 'Monastery' and in a very recent past, it has the inscription "schwarspanierhaus" which means in Germany "house of the Black Spaniard" and there was another inscirption close to the very end place that Beethoven noted "Zum schwarspanier" meaning "to the Black Spaniard"
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