I'm confused about what Beethoven was doing in the black composers post. He was German.
By golly gee! I keep forgetting that Black people didnât exist until the Fresh Prince of Bel Air came on television! Or that Black people existed in anywhere else than Africa even with slavery going on :) My apologies.
Anyway, hereâs proof that Beethoven was Black:
"âŠÂ Said directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Northern Africans who conquered parts of Europeâmaking Spain their capitalâfor some 800 years.
In order to make such a substantial statement, presentation of verifiable evidence is compulsory. Letâs start with what some of Beethovenâs contemporaries and biographers say about his brown complexion:
(Louis Letronne, Beethoven, 1814, pencil drawing.)
"Frederick Hertz, German anthropologist, used these terms to describe him: âNegroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.â
Emil Ludwig, in his book âBeethoven,â says: âHis face reveals no trace of the German. He was so dark that people dubbed him Spagnol [dark-skinned].â
Fanny Giannatasio del Rio, in her book âAn Unrequited Love: An Episode in the Life of Beethoven,â wrote âHis somewhat flat broad nose and rather wide mouth, his small piercing eyes and swarthy [dark] complexion, pockmarked into the bargain, gave him a strong resemblance to a mulatto.â
Beethovenâs death mask: profile and full face
C. Czerny stated, âHis beardâhe had not shaved for several daysâmade the lower part of his already brown face still darker.â
Following are one word descriptions of Beethoven from various writers: Grillparzer, âdarkâ; Bettina von Armin, âbrownâ; Schindler, âred and brownâ; Rellstab, âbrownishâ; Gelinek, âshort, dark.â
In Alexander Thayerâs Life of Beethoven, vol.1, p. 134, the author states, âthere is none of that obscurity which exalts one to write history as he would have it and not as it really was. The facts are too patent.â On this same page, he states that the German composer Franz Josef Haydn was referred to as a âMoorâ by Prince Esterhazy, and Beethoven had âeven more of the Moor in his looks.â On p. 72, a Beethoven contemporary, Gottfried Fischer, describes him as round-nosed and of dark complexion. Also, he was called âder Spagnolâ (the Spaniard).
Other âpatentâ sources, of which there are many, include, but are not limited to, Beethoven by Maynard Solomon, p.78. He is described as having âthick, bristly coal-black hairâ (in todayâs parlance, we proudly call it âkinkyâ) and a âruddy-complexioned face.â In   Beethoven: His Life and Times by Artes Orga, p.72, Beethovenâs pupil, Carl Czerny of the âSchool of Velocityâ fame, recalls that Beethovenâs âcoal-black hair, cut a la Titus, stood up around his head [sounds almost like an Afro]. His black beardâŠdarkened the lower part of his dark-complexioned face.â
  Engraving by Blasius Hofel, Beethoven, 1814, color facsimile of engraving after a pencil drawing by Louis Letronne. This engraving was regarded in Beethovenâs circle as particularly lifelike. Beethoven himself thought highly of it, and gave several copies to his friends.
Beethoven, the Black Spaniard
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