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Why? Johanna had nothing to do with the IB. Owing to the flawed secondary literature (Clive, Brandenburg), this article runs over with hogwash. To correct all the mistakes would take too much time.--83.137.117.3 (talk) 10:36, 23 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
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I think insisting that Johanna van Beethoven's surname was Dutch "van Beethoven" is pedantic and insensitive to the biographical facts. Johanna van Beethoven was born in Vienna and probably never set foot in the Netherlands. She got her surname because she married a man whose grandfather happened to have been a Dutch immigrant. Her brother-in-law Ludwig got into trouble because the Viennese mistook "van" for their own "von", thus mistaking him for an aristocrat; which proves that Beethoven's own peers thought of him as "Beethoven", not "van Beethoven". Really, it's very common to names lose some of their identity when emigration happens. Opus33 (talk) 05:40, 13 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
