Category:Bonn Court Administration Files

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Miscellaneous Court Music Documents

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	== Miscellaneous Court Music Documents ==		== Miscellaneous Court Music Documents ==
	These are music-related files that for various reasons were not included in the other collections. Sometimes it is because they deal with multiple court musicians at once, such as frequently happened after the death of a musician, at which point their colleagues would collectively petition for the ~~now-free~~ funds to be divided among them. Other times the documents appear to have merely been separated by accident from their logical position. Four files in Nr. 471 (fols. 3–5, 22–24, 51–55) directly deal with Ludwig van Beethoven and his family, three of which were previously unknown.		These are music-related files that for various reasons were not included in the other collections. Sometimes it is because they deal with multiple court musicians at once, such as frequently happened after the death of a musician, at which point their colleagues would collectively petition for the newly available funds to be divided among them. Other times the documents appear to have merely been separated by accident from their logical position. Four files in Nr. 471 (fols. 3–5, 22–24, 51–55) directly deal with Ludwig van Beethoven and his family, three of which were previously unknown.

	=== Kurköln II, Nr. 468 (1717–1730) ===		=== Kurköln II, Nr. 468 (1717–1730) ===

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