Show FORMER HOME DO IE OF BEETHOVEN VIENNA r j i il l i rt t i l fl i sf S I iI i fj I X I I I hf I i I i iv r 5 rite Tho C toom Was las oil on tho time Top lop Floor Whore tho thin Five Open Win Arc Mo Shown Special Sl c al Correspondence I Vienna Ienna Dec Dee 19 Here Is IR un In especial especially ly Iy taken photograph of or residence r In the Vienna In which he died on March 16 26 6 Isi 1527 and which Is l now In the handy of oC the house wreckers The great creat COin com composers posers apartments for Cor many man years a shrine for tor thousands of ot music lovers are arc already demolished The Thc doors and other have been hicen 11 cn removed to tIme the Vienna City where It IB is pro luru proposed posed to establish a n Beethoven room this could l be 10 u done however el curio hunters the thc building open entered the thu apartments broke off orr and carried away limes brass door win window windo window dow do fasteners and any alt other small ar or articles articles ticks which they thought ml might ht bo IJo tak tok taken token en without detection The house f Is III time the property of oC the thc ancient and wealthy abbey of oC near neUl Vienna lenna which Intends to put up U n a more Imposing ing modern structure on the site sill A relief ligure of or cn and a It mem IMm tablet over oer the tho entrance of or the tho now building will stIll bo be the thc only onh Indica Indications of ot the great sr nt musician liv lived lived lived ed In the old building A suggestion was made that thal time the lIce Bee Beethoven thoen lodging should bs ha preserved Intact In Intact tact and Incorporated In the new building build I but the tha project was Waft found Impracticable and onil line hae been abandoned After Afler nil 1111 nothing remained of Bee lice former Cormer home but the thc bare bore walls valia ceilings and n nd floors Doors and Indeed only a n tow ott boards of oC the latter hatter the re rl remainder remainder having been renewed once the musicians music Inns death Of or f his furniture anti and Intimate belonging such us as manu mann scripts hooks books musical Instruments let M letters tore und and tho time like ikI scarcely iny any traces tracel exist Old clothes dealers hawkers and peddlers handled his hiM property even In itt II the thc presence of or thu the great grea composer and carried It off err f In every direction lol of or the tho compass and Inc the City el museum will wil It ery very difficult to obtain genuine relics for Cor Its IIA Beethoven room The Tho composer cr was wag singularly Inexperienced In iii business affairs and his hil last days are lre said to have been embittered by neglect and comparative poverty Only a u little while before his death dalh ho lie Wrote to tit an tin In English society which him 20 In Iii advance pay payment payment ment for Cor a 1 work which the thc society was tas about to perform As its In so many m other conspicuous In Instances stances Beethoven has imos his been much moro loom mort greatly Jre honored since his hil donth thou than when alive Twenty Tont thousand people assembled on tle the lie old aIe cit city fortifications to witness s the removal of his remains from the Ih house houst and ami a n tow few days 11 ago a n large crowd crowl representing not nl only tho time leading members of the musical world In Vienna henna but many prominent muni mu l duns from Crol Austria Hungary Ger ter Germany many 1100 France and aad other countries an as Ul assembled at nt the thc Invitation of ot the bur burgomaster In Vienna In tho the composers rooms to take tako port part In iii a t memorial ceremony Celebrated Cel artists rendered some somo of or the tho maulers masters greatest pieces nod a a a large crowd stood In the pouring rain outside and listened to the Vien Vienna Ien na on Schubert singing pf f C a n lice Bee Beethoven chorus chants This his was tile tho closing clo ln In these famous old oh rooms room and time tho next day thay dl tho time timework work of or destruction was begun |