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 classical ...

. Her birthplace is now a museum, the Mutter-Beethoven-Haus.

Life

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Maria Magdalena Keverich was born in

Ehrenbreitstein Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (german: Festung Ehrenbreitstein, ) is a fortress in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the east bank of the Rhine where it is joined by the Moselle, overlooking the town of Koblenz. Occupying the position of an ...

, a village on the

Rhine ), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland , source1_coordinates= , source1_elevation = , source2 = Rein Posteriur/Hinterrhein , source2_location = Paradies Glacier, Graubünden, Switzerland , source2_coordinates= , so ...

opposite

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...

(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. History ...

, 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 (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

at the court of the

Electorate of Cologne The Electorate of Cologne (german: Kurfürstentum Köln), sometimes referred to as Electoral Cologne (german: Kurköln, links=no), was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the 10th to the early 19th century. ...

, 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-Ruhr r ...

, 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 .

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