>>Tous les familiers de Beethoven sont des opposants au régime existant. Tous sont d'enragés frondeurs. Tous sont anticléricaux, anticagots. Presque tous manifestent un antisémitisme mordant, qui est motivé par la collusion de l'argent des banques juives avec la réaction, de Rothschild avec Metternich. Rolland, Beethoven,1937, p. 592. Thus, was Beethoven an antisemite?Grok;Yes, Beethoven expressed antisemitic prejudices in his letters, consistent with common attitudes in early 19th-century Europe, but he was not a systematic or obsessive antisemite. His views appear more as casual bigotry, often tied to business frustrations, than as a core ideological belief. He maintained professional and personal relationships with Jews (or those of Jewish origin), which complicates any blanket label.Prejudiced remarks: In letters, he used antisemitic tropes, especially when complaining about publishers or money. A notable example (c. 1800) to publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister: “...as you are neither a Jew nor an Italian... and since I too am neither, no doubt we shall come to some agreement.” He made similar disparaging comments about the Jewish publisher Adolf Martin Schlesinger (born Aaron Moses Schlesinger), sometimes combining accusations of dishonesty with references to his religion
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