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He advanced quickly towards me and asked me in German in a truculent voice what I wanted. I replied in the same language, I wanted a room. He shot a glance at me through his little slits of eyes on hearing my good Bonn accent, but his manner did not change. "The hotel is full. The gentleman cannot have a bed here. The proprietress is out at present.
For the rest I cannot do better than quote, in this connection, the opinion of the most dispassionate critic of Ireland of recent years Herr Moritz Bonn. Speaking of the landlord who has sold his estate he says "He has no further cause of friction with his former tenants, who now pay him no rent. He no longer regards himself as part of an English garrison. He will again become an Irish patriot.
When, in November, 1673, the Prince of Orange had the audacity to besiege Bonn, the residence of our ally, the Prince Elector of Cologne, and to reduce that prelate to the last extremity, the King promptly seized upon the Principality of Orange; and having planted the French flag upon every building, he published a general decree, strictly forbidding the inhabitants to hold any communication whatever with "their former petty sovereign," and ordering prayers to be said for him, Louis, in all their churches.
It is possible that Beethoven may have occasionally seen Salomon at Bonn, but that violinist went to London at least as early as 1781, after having then been for several years in Prince Henry's chapel in Berlin. These things may, perhaps, strike the reader as of minor importance, mere blemishes.
I Undeceive Esther I set out for Germany Adventure Near Cologne The Burgomaster's Wife; My Conquest of Her Ball at Bonn Welcome From the Elector of Cologne Breakfast at Bruhl First Intimacy I sup Without Being Asked at General Kettler's I am Happy I Leave Cologne The Toscani The Jewel My Arrival at Stuttgart
Immediately descending the innumerable flights of steps which divide such lofty edifices from the lower world, I entered the inn at Bonn, and was shown into an apartment which commands the chief front of the Elector's palace. You may guess how contemptible it appeared to one just returned from the court of fancy.
While he and Beethoven were not in accord on the subject of musical composition, each disliking the other's works, there is no question but that his proximity to him at Bonn, was one of the forces that had much to do with Beethoven's artistic development. Then there was Franz Ries, pupil of Salomon, the distinguished violinist.
During this year people came to me from Cologne, Bonn, and Dusseldorf, to speak with me privately. When I inquired their business, they told me their clergy had informed them I was propagating a new religion, in which every man must sign himself to the devil, who then would supply them with money.
At Cologne, the nuns were instantly emancipated from their vows, and one of the youngest and most beautiful afterward gained great notoriety as a barmaid at an inn. This scandalous story is related by Klebe in his Travels on the Rhine. In Bonn, Gleich, a man who had formerly been a priest, placed himself at the head of the French rabble and planted trees of liberty.
Ludwig van Beethoven, the grandfather of the composer, received his appointment as Kapellmeister at Bonn in March of 1733, then twenty-one years of age. A little more than a century afterward a statue was erected there in the Münster Platz to his illustrious grandson, Liszt being the moving spirit in the matter.
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