Get your tickets to this flame war early...
Matanio Opheo wrote:
> If you are saying that some Austrians used Italianized names, you are
> breaking the lock on an open door. We know that already. If you
> intimate that just because one Austrian football coach working in
> Italy had an Italianized name, then an Austrian guitarist who was
> born in 1818 and was never in Italy could also have an Italianized
> name, without any evidence that he was so called, then allow me to
> introduce you to Giovanni Sebastiano Bach, Francesco Haydn, Roberto
> Schumann, Francesco Dolcevillico (Franz Suessmayr) and Federico Handel.
I don't know about them, but Beethoven's original title page for his
third symphony said, in his handwriting:
Sinfonia Grande
Intitolata Buonaparte
del Sigr
Luigi van Beethoven
According to Ferdinand Ries, when he learned that Napoleon had
crowned himself emperor, Beethoven scratched out "Buonaparte,"
leaving a hole in the page. A new title page for the first edition
says:
S I N F O N I A E R O I C A
composta
per festiggiare il sovvenire di un grand Uomo
e dedicate
A Sua Altessa Serenissima in Principe di Lobkowikz
da
Luigi van Beethoven
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