GRAMOPHONES
BEETHOVEN A “COMPOSITOR"
Amusing details of the life of Beethoven —details hitherto unknown to biographers—have been found in essays written ty English school children and -e----ceived by the Education Department of His Master’s Voice Gramophone Company. The fact that from England was sent £IOO to procure Beethoven necessary comforts during what was to prove his last illness was readily seized upon. One little fellow introduced it as follows:—“Beethoven was a compositor. He was fond of music and of great poverty so he made gramerphone records for a living and died poor. They sent him a hundred pounds to make him die happy saying with his fleeting breath God bless them good fellows in London.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 July 1927, Page 16
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115GRAMOPHONES Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 July 1927, Page 16
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