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GNED 09 Chapter 7
GNED 09 Chapter 7
GNED 09 Chapter 7
Rizal as Musician – kundimans and other Philippines melodies are played in all Filipino
reunions
● Reason for studying music: many of his schoolmates at the Ateneo were taking
music lessons
● November 27, 1878 letter to Enrique Lete
▪ Learned the solfeggio, the piano and voice culture in on month
and a half.
● Play the flute fairly well.
▪ Composed “alin mang lahi” (any race): a patriotic song which asserts
that any ace aspires for freedom.
▪ Sad Danza – “La Deportacion” (deportation): composed in Dapitan
during his exile.
Historic Heidelberg – left Gay Paris on February 1, 1886 for Germany. Visited Strasbourg
(Capital of Alsace Lorraine)
● February 3, 1886 – he arrived in Heidelberg, a historic city in Germany, famous for its
old university and romantic surroundings.
▪ Became a member in Chess Player’s Club
▪ Worked at University Eye Hospital under the direction of Dr. Otto
Becker
▪ Attended lectures of Dr. Otto Becker and Prof. Wilhelm Kuehne
▪ Weekends he visited: Heidelberg Castle , Neckar River, theatre and
old churches.
▪ Light Blue “forget-me-not” flower – Rizal’s favourite. Remembered the
blooming flowers at the garden of his home in Calamba.
▪ April 22. 1886 wrote a poem “A Las Flores de Heidelberg” (to the
flowers of Heidelberg)
● With Pastor Ullmer at Wilhelmsfeld. Three months summer vacation at
Wilhelmsfeld, a mountainous village near Heidelberg.
● Stayed at vicarage of Protestant Pastor, Dr. Karl Ullmer
▪ His pleasing personality and talents in languages and sketching
endeared the pastor’s wife and 2 children, Etta and Fritz.
▪ Ended his sojourn June 25, 1886
▪ May 29, 1887 – wrote from Munich (Muchen) to Friedrich (Fritz)
● First letter to Ferdinand Blumentritt, director of the Ateneo de Leitmeritz,
Austria – July 31, 1886.
● Blumentritt (bestfriend of Rizal) – Austrian ethnologist and has interest in
Philippine Languages.
● sent with the book entitled “Aretmetica”: published in two languages –
Spanish and Tagalog – by the University of Santo Tomas Press in 1868.
Author: Rufino Baltazar Hernandez, a native of Sta. Cruz, Laguna.
● Impressed by Rizal’s letter, he gave Rizal two books.
In Leipzig and Dresden (August 9, 1886) boarded a train and visited many cities in
Germany.
● Arrived at Leipzig (August 14, 1886) attended lectures in history and psychology at
University of Leipzig.
● Befriended Prof. Fiedrich Ratzel (famous German historian) and Dr. Hans Meyer
(German Anthropologist)
● Translated Schiller’s William Tell from German to Tagalog so that Filipinos might
know the story of the Champion of Swiss independence. Also translated Hans
Christians Andersen’s Fairy Tales for his nephews and nieces.
● October 29 left Leipzig for Dresden. Met Dr. Adolph B. Meyer – director of the
Anthropological and ethnological museum.
● Heard mass in a Catholic Church and was impressed
● November 1 left Dresden by train and reached Berlin in the evening.
Reference:
https://www.academia.edu/31110008/RIZAL_CHAPTER_7