Tag: Bonn Court
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The symbolic portrait of Mozart’s patron Dr. Ferdinand Dejean
Stephen MartinDurham, United Kingdom Dr. Ferdinand Dejean (1731–1797) grew up in the Bonn Court alongside Beethoven’s father and trained as a surgeon.1,2 For ten years he worked on Dutch East India Company ships from Persian Gulf islands to Sri Lanka, in Bengal, India and in Batavia – now modern-day Jakarta, Indonesia. He married Anna Maria…