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January 2nd, 2016 
Awake Goy Ethnic Europeans, their culture and history are much maligned. The way back to the European feel good factor is to remind ourselves just how great we Europeans are. There is nothing like contrast and example to instill racial pride. With this in mind, let us remember Ludwig van Beethoven. The great German composer was not a heavily marketed wonder with a shelf life of several weeks; this renowned musician of working class background has been top of the pops for 300 years.
I regard all pop music as irrelevant in the sense that people in 200 years won‘t be listening to what is being written and played today. I think they will be listening to Beethoven.” ~ Elton John.
Ludwig van Beethoven was a gifted musician. He was also as human and vulnerable as we all are. He could be moody, snappish, given to making mistakes, up for challenges. Some of his greatest challenges ~ at least equal to the challenges of his compositions ~ were the many women in the life of Beethoven.
Many of the women loved by the German composer achieved mortality through the music they stirred in him. There is confusion over which of his great loves inspired Fur Elise. Does it really matter? Whoever this heartbreaker was she certainly inspired in her romantic pursuer the tenderest piano ballad imaginable.
The musician who won the hearts of Europe’s nobility occasionally failed to win the hearts of those he loved more than anything else but music. For this reason, Ludwig van Beethoven is as well remembered for the poignancy of his letter to his ‘immortal beloved’ as he is to any of his symphonies, piano or violin concertos.
The identity of Beethoven’s enigmatic ‘immortal beloved’ has alluded scholars since 1827. Strangely enough, the mystery of who she was adds to the poignancy of this story of his unrequited love. The forsaken composer on one occasion pulled his chair up to his writing desk. Deep in thought, he took his pen and he then set down his feelings towards this unknown woman as few poets could. Is it any surprise, therefore, that a man of such heart could also write such enduring and captivating music?
MY IMMORTAL BELOVED:
Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, and then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us. I can live only wholly with you or not at all. Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits. Yes, unhappily it must be so. You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart, never never – never. Oh continue to love me; never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours”
~ The Third Romantic Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to his Immortal Beloved.
Whatever his failings, and he had a few, Beethoven was under no illusions as to his own ability as a musician. He was unique in history and he knew it.
“Prince, what you are, you are by accident of birth. What I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes but there is only one Beethoven.” Ludwig van Beethoven in a letter to Prince Lichnowsky
Such legendary Europeans as Beethoven do much more than comfort and inspire me. He makes me proud to be a son of the same remarkable race.
Source Article from http://renegadetribune.com/immortal-beloved/
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