A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Fischer, Gottfried

by George Grove

FISCHER, Gottfried, son of a master baker of Bonn, born there July 21, 1780—ten years after Beethoven; the author of a narrative or collection of anecdotes on Bonn and the Beethoven family, their circumstances and connections, from the grandfather of Ludwig to Ludwig's own youth. The Fischers lived at 934 in the Rheingasse, in which the Beethovens also lived from 1775, and which was for long believed to be the birthplace of the composer. Fischer's narrative was not committed to writing till 1838, and though highly curious and interesting, and written with apparent bona fides, cannot be closely relied on as to dates. It has been sifted and employed by Thayer in his Life of Beethoven (see vol. i. Anhang vii.).

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