Was Ludwig van Beethoven a black man?

beethoven was German and quite the white man. cleopatra was greek and olive in color.

What a waste of a question. I will simply say you are wrong and a complete idiot!!! William H is 100% correct. What's next, are you going to say Harriet Tubmen and George Washington Carver were white.

Neither Beethoven or Cleopatra were black ! Cleopatra had dark skin, but she was'nt "black" per say.

Beethoven was not black. He was European white, and of course racism would not allow blacks in Europe. Cleopatra was Greek. So, neither was black. It is sorry when a black man goes around spreading myths like that to try to boost the black race. He should stick to the truth. You want a black hero? How about Colin Powell or Ben Carson, the black pediatric surgeon.

Nowhere does it say Beethoven was black or black descent. I studied his music in school for a long time and never heard of this either. Here are some sites, pictures, biography, etc., but here also, no mention of him being black. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany and his family was originally from Brabant, Belgium. His father was of Flemish origin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven http://www.lucare.com/immortal/childhood.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven I read the article Sparkles put up that said that Beethoven was black and I compared pictures with ones I found on the internet. None of them looked anything like the ones in the article.But he did study with Joseph Haydn who was mentioned in the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra And according to this Cleopatra wasn't really black either(thats funny cause I always thought she was.lol)

no he was european

He was more pink than black.

http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/Beethoven.htm And if you look at his portraits closely, he does look to be black or part.