On the holes of Beethoven, where he was born

« Everyone connects Beethoven with Vienna, but there is something to see here. » The director of the Ludwig Museum Van Beethoven says in Bonn. It is housed in the house where the composer was born and lived with his family for about 3 years. Then he moved to several more addresses in the city, some of which are today marked with a sign on a new building.

The local authority has also built a free route, which includes 12 seats related to the composer from Bonn, with information served in different formats. In the museum itself, the visitor can also enjoy a concert.

Bonn may not be the most desirable tourist site in the world, especially since it is not the capital of Germany. But the city is the birthplace of Beethoven and its museum is visited by about 100,000 people a year, which ranks among the most visited tourist destinations in Germany.

The house, which at the end of the 19th century was threatened with destruction but saved by buying by wealthy traders, kept a number of belongings by the composer, including his piano, documents, including 1700 letters, his most popular portrait. On it, the composer has his usual hair, not tucked away, as you would require a label if you were a service musician. Experts say that this has shown that he feeds himself as a free artist and is not engaged somewhere. The portrait was painted when he was in his 50s and already completely deaf.

Beethoven is descended from a family of musicians – both his grandfather and his father were like that, except that in service in the palace orchestra – the grandfather as a capelmaster at the Current Clemens August in Bonn, and his only son Johan – a singer, tenor.

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Beethoven’s home is located on a small street in the tourist center of the city.

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The family lived in the wing to the right, from the garden.

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The yard watched from the concert hall.

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The portrait, when Beethoven, though completely deaf – at about 50, continues to work.

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Personal effects.

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In a building glued to the native house, there is a modernly equipped hall where there are concerts every day.

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Composer’s piano.

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The narrow ladder leading to the upper floors. The ceilings are low and the rooms are very small, although the family was not poor.

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The street where the house is and neighboring are littered with the portraits of prominent personalities, among which, along with Beethoven, is his music teacher and more.

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Clara Schumann, the wife of the famous composer, who was not fortunate enough to be born in an era who accepts that it is possible for a woman to write music.

Among the preserved personal documents are notes on newspaper publications of that time, which testify to the composer’s interest in the news in technology at that time. You can see notes from a message in the press in the invention of a coffee machine to which the composer was interested. It is known that after having lunch at a restaurant, he drank his coffee at a restaurant where they also offered the new newspapers.

The museum continues outdoors with a 12 point in the city where the visitor, the next route described in a tourist kata, can learn more about Beethoven’s life in text, photos and more.

The video is the implementation of the Sonata Number 8 of Fotpiano. She is performed by Takhiko Sakamaki, who begins to play at the age of five. He graduated from a bachelor’s degree in Tokyo and a master’s degree from the University of Music in Cologne.