Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1889 — Anecdote of Beethoven. [ARTICLE]

Anecdote of Beethoven.

Beethoven, although it must be conceded that he had every right to be vain, never took the trouble to hide his feelings, and when his ire was aroused —and that is with men of genius more easily done than to allay it —he expressed himself very clearly indeed. Thus you may see at Heiligenstadt, near Vienna, where they are now forming a sort of Beethoven museum like the Mozarteum at Salsburg, a sketch of a chateau in Nether Austria, where, a few years before his death, Beethoven used to compose. It belonged to Beethoven’s brother, a chemist, who had made some money and was rather fond of displaying his wealth. Thi» brother called upon Beethoven and left a card, upon which he had engraved his name: “Jean von Beethoven, landed proprietor.” This innocent vanity so enraged Beethoven that he returned the call upon his brother, when he knew he would not be at home, and left his card: “Louis von Beethoven, brain proprietor.”— Temple Bar.