OrlandiArmando wrote:Dani! I want a photo with all of you in front of the Beethoven pendulum clock that I repaired, and also one together with the caretaker of the Bodmer hall! ... she and I have a special feeling! She calls me..... "Rolando" promise?
enjoy yourselves and be well together! You deserve it! A big hug!
Yours, A----------
Dear Armando, and so I managed to see Bonn and the Beethoven-haus. To be precise, I saw it twice because Leonardo wanted to go back the next day.
I am amazed and proud of this love he has for Beethoven's music: my son is certainly not one to be influenced by his father. It is a love all his own.
I think it is very true when it is stated that Beethoven's music and personality provoke two very strong and absolute feelings in those who approach them: either of great attraction or of fundamental repulsion. And my son is an example of this.
In Bonn we visited Ludwig's mother's grave, and there I also found the graves of Robert and Clara Schumann. I knew that Robert had spent his last years in a mental asylum near Bonn, but I was not aware that there, in that small cemetery, his grave was located, where Clara is also buried.
The photos you asked me for, I didn't take, simply because we common visitors of the Beethoven-haus are not allowed to take photos inside, just as it is not allowed to see the Archive!
The lady of the hall - I think she was the one we were supposed to take a photo with - is truly ironclad in this regard: a cunning and unpleasant Japanese man paid dearly for his infractions because she kicked him out.
Your (tua) pendulum clock is now kept in the display case that is behind you in a photo on the website: it is stopped at 8:30. Probably no one winds it, or perhaps... it would need to be adjusted again. Who knows?
If all goes well, I will probably be there again next year, on a trip from Berlin to Bonn, passing through Leipzig to return once more to Bach's tomb: this too is an unspeakable emotion. And also because - unfortunately - it slipped my mind that in that city there is the Beethoven monument by Max Klinger.
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