Beatrix Canal Beatrix Canal The Beatrix Canal (Dutch: "Beatrixkanaal") is an 8.4 km long canal in the southern Netherlands. It was constructed to provide the city of Eindhoven with access to the Wilhelmina Canal. In order to be able to regulate the level of the Gender and Dommel streams, which regularly threatened to flood Eindhoven's inner city, an additional Discharge Canal ("Afwateringskanaal"), which is not open to navigation, was dug to connect the Beatrix Canal and the Dommel stream. Into this branch, the Gender now discharges. Upon completion, the canal was named in honour of the newborn eldest daughter of the heiress
Beatrix Borchard musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. She is head of a project "Orte und Wege europäischer Kulturvermittlung durch Musik" (Locations and paths of European cultural exchange by music), which is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Beatrix Borchard was the author of several radio features, has been moderator of concerts, and made two films for the NDR, one a documentary about Clara Schumann (NDR 1996) and another about "Hausmusik" (NDR 1997). She collaborated on other music films. A documentary about the sisters Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot, including a biography of the singer Pauline Viardot, is planned