But 1st the western german city of boston is the high much home town of lewd fig. He was born in 1717. 00 and spent the 1st 22 years busy life in the city next year it is a very special. Bond as its the 250th anniversary of the great mans birth and theres lots going on that every year theres a Beethoven Fest about Beethoven 2020 is much more than that indeed the whole year is so packed with all sorts of events that celebrations have spilled over into this year kind of already on the way. Now friday so all the opening of a special walking tour in and around featuring all the important places where beit have malls on the line from the burka the Artistic Director the entire beethoven
2020 year welcome to the program 1st of all Beethoven 2020 gets underway officially at the end of this year and of course stretches of the whole of next year the 1st Visible Project is this walking sort tour so 1st of all that could you tell us a little bit about that. Of course thank you we believe in bonn t
have a very formative years of his life but he s always associated with vet of vienna so is beethoven 2020 kind of trying to redress the balance a bit. well we don t intend this to rewrite history of course the time that he spent in vienna was very important and he composed all the big works in vienna but you re right the 1st 22 years were very formative for him to grow up to develop. him self as a musician and as a personality and we believe that it is good to focus not only on the old steph grimm itself but also on the young composer aspired to change something he was a kind of game changer and it s very interesting to deep into the early years when he experienced the french revolution for instance 7989 in bonn and all the context