Maria Magdalena van Beethoven, née Keverich (19 December 1746 – 17 July 1787)
Beethoven, Maria Magdalena van / 1746–1787
Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank was the wife of the Bonn court musician Johann van Beethoven
Johann van Beethoven (14 November 1740 – 18 December 1792) was a Duchy of Brabant, Brabantine-Germans, German musician, teacher, and singer who sang in the chapel of the Archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. He is best known as the fa ...
, and the mother of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
. Her birthplace is now a museum, the Mutter-Beethoven-Haus.
Life
Maria Magdalena Keverich was born in Ehrenbreitstein
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (german: Festung Ehrenbreitstein, ) is a fortress in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the east bank of the Rhine where it is joined by the Moselle, overlooking the town of Koblenz.
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, a village on the Rhine
), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
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opposite Koblenz (and now part of Koblenz). Her parents were Johann Heinrich Keverich (1701–1759) and Anna Klara (Clara) née Westorff (1707–1768), who were married in 1731. From 1733, Johann was head cook at the court of the Elector of Trier
The elector of Trier was one of the prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire and, in his capacity as archbishop, administered the archdiocese of Trier. The territories of the electorate and the archdiocese were not, however, equivalent.
Histor ...
, who resided at in Ehrenbreitstein.[Maria Magdalena Keverich]
Ehrenbreitstein.de, accessed 29 December 2016.[Paul Nettl. ''Beethoven Encyclopedia''. Philosophical Library, 1956. Entries "Brothers of Beethoven" and "Family".]
Maria Magdalena was the youngest of their six children. On 30 January 1763, she married Johann Georg Leym, who was in the service of the Archbishop of Trier
The Diocese of Trier, in English historically also known as ''Treves'' (IPA "tɾivz") from French ''Trèves'', is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic church in Germany.[Johann van Beethoven
Johann van Beethoven (14 November 1740 – 18 December 1792) was a Duchy of Brabant, Brabantine-Germans, German musician, teacher, and singer who sang in the chapel of the Archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. He is best known as the fa ...]
at the Church of St Remigius, Bonn
St. Remigius is a Catholic church and parish in Bonn, Germany. The building was completed in 1307, in Gothic style.
History
Construction of the church, originally intended as a monastery church, was begun in 1272 by the Franciscan Order. It was c ...
on 12 November 1767. Johann's father was Kapellmeister at the court of the Electorate of Cologne, which was in Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
, and Johann was a court musician there. Johann and Maria van Beethoven had seven children: the future composer Ludwig was the second, born in 1770.[
Maria died in Bonn in 1787 of tuberculosis, aged 40.][Parents]
Beethoven.ws, accessed 29 December 2016. Her birth place is now a museum, named .
References
External links
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Mutter-Beethoven-Haus
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1746 births
1787 deaths
People from Koblenz
Beethoven family
Tuberculosis deaths in Germany