Music plays a big role in the city music has brought here today. Im in vienna the capital of austria Historic Old Town is a unesco World Heritage site. Its highlights include st stephens cathedral and the imperial palace. Im in vienna today for a very special reason. In 2020 music lovers around the world are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the from beatle vince birth. Who was born and born but spent most of his life in vienna. He lived here for over 3 decades and wrote his masterpieces today i want to see how visible loopy from beethoven still is in vienna what makes the city so attractive to musicians and why was beethoven so restless i mean during his time here he moved on average once a year as you can see have a lot of questions that need answering one day in vienna following the footsteps of the great. Off course we will give you an overview of the sights to see in vienna. And the kill in their respect for which the city is famous. In addition we will show you how big this being on earth in his native. One of the top addresses for music lovers in vienna is the sound museum housed there was eek its all about sounds and noises and the exhibition starts in the stairwell. Was a clunk that there are sound staircase which we call stair play can do more than make music. But i follow you. Come on you play a song you hear you can play one of the Vienna Philharmonic museum is also located here the famous was founded in these rooms. And here in the instrument we look at groups of instruments and for areas of course we show people real instruments and want visitors to learn something about the groups they belong to. They can beat the big drum to. On its own so you hear something now and then give it a try with only. You can feel the sound waves which produce warmth to this is the Worlds Largest animal hide drum by the way. Heres a really great interactive installations of the walt dice game was also developed here in house. The concern is it will create their own waltz melody by rolling virtual dice thats something you dont see every day. So lets see how well you do play too fast and you grab it like this right and then you roll the dice. Youll see or rather hear that the waltz melody is nice ready. We did that. An entire floor of the sound museum is dedicated to the famous composers who worked in vienna. Now are coming to the floor of the grand masters that is the masters of viennese Classical Music and here we have holograms of the composers yosef haydn comedy as Mozart Beethoven and france to bat. Many important composers came to vienna over the centuries be too often also moved here when he was 22. Why was he here in vienna why were so many musicians and composers attracted to vienna 50 to one of the beethoven composers like haydn and mozart were role models. Because after realizing just how great they were you purposely chose to come to vienna. Of course much more than just the metropolis for music so its time for a brief overview of austrias capital. Some 1900000. 00 people live in vienna and each year the city welcomes around 7500000. 00 visitors that makes the austrian capital one of the most popular destinations in europe. You get. To experience what vienna has to offer just follow that. Its famous ring road thats the recommendation from. As head concierge at the Hotel Imperial he knows what visitors want to see. Just over 5 kilometers long and 60 metres wide the link is divided into 9 sections each with its own name. The ring road in circles the city is historical. It also runs past the vienna state opera one of the worlds most prestigious opera houses. Just because they did probably the most famous building on the. Evening you can see the audience coming here not just in cars but also on foot its nice to watch that even if youre not going to the opera its a kind of theater in itself. For the. Many buildings here speak of the past to her. Book palace today its the official residence of the austrian president. The Old History Museum is another important monument. Built with austria was part of an empire it contains treasures from 7 different millennia. Of ascending the staircase in the art History Museum is a great experience every time the magnificence to the left and right of the stairs yobbish over here but the real treasure is up above when you turn around. You can take in these wonderful paintings by Gustav Clement i mean theyre unique works of art and think i think it goes back to the original ring road was built with medieval military force you to cation this one stent bussin 857. Ordered it to be given a complete make of the boulevard became biggest construction project so the i mean i think that the things tosser has changed a lot over the centuries aristocrats and the middle classes used to stroll about here then it became excessive bill to everyone. Now theres lots of traffic but nice bike paths too and its still a great place to walk so yeah. The vienna city park was the 1st of many public parks to be built along the things more than 150 years ago. The city park is my favorite part of the things. You can observe all kinds of people here. In the theatre when you can see everyone from top managers to punks to japanese tourists. Everyone comes here. Some say the city has made what it is today. Following loopy from beethovens footsteps in vienna as ive already mentioned the 2 of them was a rather restless guy he often moved in vienna and he even moved in and out of the apartment in the merc of us twice several times the house belonged to one of the talking patrons baron past. His landlord remained loyal to him even when be moved elsewhere the baron that not rent out the apartment but kept it so that the musician could return. Since b. 2 of them suffered from gastric complaints as well as for. Hearing loss he visited the spa town of heiling steps on the outskirts of vienna and hopeful for a cure he often went for a walk in this park. The building in the nearby houses vienna speed to have museum. Shows me around the rooms theyd be to have lived in in the summer of 18 or 2. It was quite unsettled he often moved why was that. He wasnt an easy tenant as his deafness progressed he composed louder and louder slamming the piano with his hand as he banged on the walls to beat time and sang loudly. And if he got to composing he had a funny habit of taking a pail of water and dumping it over his head. Open even with todays flooring that would be problematic back then the floor had even more cracks for the water to run down so his neighbors got moldy walls he. Didnt word get around among landlords here in vienna. Absolutely he always had problems finding lodgings. Thats how he used to live in the compulsive forder is that its an attempt to show what his apartment could have looked like when the harder of hearing he grew the more chaotic his life became. This valuable string instrument from a princely city is lying around. Here or scraps of food and sheet music. And the music for instance while working on the mrs so that miss he couldnt find the kitty i believe. 4 days later he discovered that his cook had wrapped the butter with the sheet music for the kid. Of course that was awful for him he needed those sheets by contrast his teacher and role model haydn was very orderly so his music lies neatly on the piano beethoven was slovenly when it came to how he dressed and how he kept his house listening to house on. Testament became famous in it the composer describes his desperate situation hes furious about becoming deaf and his isolation. That is the maze highly constat a testament is also a justification he writes about the incurable state of his ears made worse by misguided doctors he came here hoping to be healed. He was also suffering from a broken heart. But in 80 no 2 he came to highly can start to be cured. So this letter is a justification of why hes so withdrawn doesnt socialize much anymore and has become such a loner its because hes uncomfortable saying speak up i cant hear you as a musician he finds the sun bearable and he must also deal with jealous folks and enemies hes made due to his difficult temperament so this letter attempts to correct his image a bit so basically. By the way. Born here in vienna but in germany thats where he lived 20 years and thats where he took his 1st steps as a musician and composer and of course the people of are also very proud of their brave. In december 17th 70 look extern beethoven was born into a musical family in poland his grandfather was the chord music director his father was a singer and music teacher. To mark the 250th anniversary of his birth a new permanent exhibition has opened in the house where literate from beethoven was born. Just a few years before the french revolution the spirit of change was in the air. His family supported Young Beethovens musical talent he lived various instruments and worked as an organist and p. L. O. Teacher and he took an interest in the ideas of the ad litum and. The various already apparent how the french revolution men packed on beethovens life. We have this view of the french marching in and occupying the rhineland. Here a liberty pole is set up at the Market Square in bonn so beethoven was caught up in these changing times from the. Other fast with the base of the house this is his can see the instruments that compose a play. Portraits testified to the fact that beethoven was already an icon in his lifetime yet the differing portrayals underline the composers multifaceted nature. This is a portrait of a Young Beethoven circa 1900 he was around 30 years old its a completely different image than the one we normally have if we think of beethoven as an old deaf misanthrope who withdrew from society. But here he looks at us quite openly and unlike composers who came before him he doesnt wear a wig at some of his republican hairstyle signals a new era in this portrayed by horniman is well suited to helping us find a new understanding a new approach to beethoven. In. One room in the bass heavily house is devoted to the compose this every day life and work. Permanent exhibition relies on a few items that speak volumes. It was important for us to show off that is Historic House which is mainly in its original condition to its best advantage in c. A small selection of everyday objects though important ones like the desk he worked at. Or his Walking Stick or i would listen to their staged in such a way that you realize how vital they are to beethovens life. You can really see that in this vitrine which only contains a goose quill and. It helps us realize that all the music that beethoven wrote went through a goose quill. And is now preserved in one of eternity. You can also follow in bass heavens footsteps and done by taking a walking tour organized by the citizens for bass heavens association. As many buildings from beethovens day no longer exist theyve set up in 5 pages. This pillar shows where the attack often once stood it was a beethovens favorite and a center for discussion about the enlightenment. This was before the french revolution and american independence. Here there was a circle of musicians who were very involved in these political discussions and that said gotten was their meeting place. At the front there was. It was run by a widow widow koch who also had a very attractive daughter called bet that back then all the men in bonn were attracted to her like moths to a flame. That. Dove into. Their eyes 16 stops on the base have into it in and around. For stefan i say uttering the composers lavery is a neighbor of love. By those hordes a day theres almost no music that doesnt draw on beethoven that even includes rock music when you listen to someone like the great punk icon patti smith whenever shes in bonn she always goes to the beethoven house because she says my music would be inconceivable without beethoven but so beethovens really contemporary. Back in here braided his 1st Great Success as a composer for example in. Symphony. Was heard for the 1st time. The prince of luck of its was an important patron for beatles and for other composers today his palace houses the theatre museum. Whats so special about this whole. Its simply part of musical history she. Took place here so did debuts dress rehearsals in the presence of beethoven and operas. The prince of luck of its was crazy about music and theater so he knew what kind of people to bring here and just what needed to be done. With. Sort would become why did be to have been performed here for the 1st time. For an opera by sally area was performed here and afterwards to rehearsals took place. And the triple concerto the bills prove that. They showed that in addition to the musicians for the sound the area opera 3rd french horn player was needed. And only one beethoven symphony features a 3rd french horn so thats the indication. That when people. Went to you know how the people reacted to the are there any records from the time. Theres evidence that the it was considered a revolutionary work. People must have been pretty astonished because in the symphony was something completely new in terms of its instrumentation power and vitality. For music theater art and. Travel program about this. 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Becoming what would be to have his funeral have been like and i let you read it to be pompous some 20000 people are said to have come to his funeral and he was much loved at the time so 20000 people accompanied him on his final journey. At the end of my journey and be talking footsteps and i want to combine something that is typical of you and thats associated with beatles here in coffee home one of us oldest coffee houses both beatles at mozart gave small concerts theres no music today but i have a typical also during sweet ditch the guys are. Going to. Be talking certainly left his mark on piano you can follow his footsteps from his numerous apartments to the great concert halls where he was celebrated as a composer if you do so he will get an intimate look at who this man was as an artist but also as a person and of course you get a good impression office adopted home tom get up bye bye see you soon. Coming. Up. The food. Is going to. Come. To. 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