Beethoven's funeral

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:29 pm

I heard something on BBC Radio 3 today that I hadn't heard before. Apparently Bruckner went to Beets funeral and paid his respects but lost his spectacles. He seemed to think that they must have fallen into the coffin whilst he was overcome with emotion and he was quite staggered that the great man was buried with them... anyone heard this before

Harold Tucker · Post by **Harold Tucker** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:15 pm

Since Bruckner would have been three years old at the time, I really question its veracity.

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:29 pm

Any chance the BBC could have gotten mixed up...and it was Schubert's eyeglasses?

http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/Biograph ... ation.html

Harold Tucker · Post by **Harold Tucker** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:51 pm

I found a reference to Bruckner being present at an exhumation of Herr Ludwig: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=72 - 16k
This was in 1888 and I refuse to make any comments about Beethoven's decomposition.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:19 pm

Bruckner had a near obsession with death. He attended, apparently, a number of autopsies. it would figure that the death of a great composer would very much interest him.

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:33 am

Ralph wrote:He attended, apparently, a number of autopsies.

jbuck919 · Post by **jbuck919** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:57 am

Bruckner was a piece of work. He reminds me of the mathematician Kurt Goedel (they even looked alike), who had an obsession that his food was being poisoned and starved himself to death.

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:04 am

oops... it WAS Schubert that they mentioned

There must be some reason why I wrote Bruckner.... I do remember when I typed in his name that I made a mental note to check his birth date as summat seemed a bit odd....

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