Western germany and thats the citys most famous son. The guy on the plane. Beethoven. I guess he was born here. Correct thing lucky what did he do your music maybe you have a melody in your head now. Beethovens fifth. And fifth right go ahead what is that i dont know its one of his symphonies but theres a ninth that is even more popular sing it for me. Ok. Yeah. That yeah right and theres another one from. The from. Today i want to find out what bond has to offer in connection with the legendary beethoven in the old town along the river and in a ballroom dating back to the great mans time the composer spent the first twenty two years of his life here in boston. On todays show we find out what else there is to do in books. We check out the celebrations for beatles to run written Fiftieth Anniversary in twenty twenty. And we go to vienna where the two of you worked after his time in poland. Number twenty beatles and was born in this house in seventy seventy here you can learn almost everything about him from his success as a child prodigy to the great dramas of his life the unfortunate relationships and his loss of hearing. My to the director of the beatles and host explains the most important stage is. What was it like he lived in this house for the first four years of his life. With my. Job and grew up in a whole family of musicians his grandfather was the music director for the prince electors court in bonn so we had the chance to meet all of the fans most important musicians through his family they were frequent guests in the beethoven home. And thats if a course in a family that was so musical placed great value one would becoming a musical career. And was the. Next topic beatles and romance many of his compositions are dedicated to women for example to iliza. Beethoven is known as a womanizer but women. Play a role in his life and who exactly was ill easy. We dont know it for sure because the dedication on the original copy isnt specific. So there are different theories one of the most significant things about his life is that he devoted himself entirely to music and never married its own kind of. He looks pretty grumpy we had a frenzy all you would do in his position. That was modeled on a cast that was done live with a plaster mask. They would cover the entire face with plaster but first stick two straws into his nostrils so he could breathe. And in a situation like that you might have looked a bit tense yourself. But its about its authentic portrait thats been handed down to us and it allows us to show visitors how we look to people at the time that was twelve when he was forty two years old. Yet. Looks like a big soup stew with. Visitors tell us. Thats another major factor in beethovens life his hearing loss. I think the question that especially fascinates people about beethoven is how could somebody who couldnt hear create such great music. When he said it and he was barely thirty years old and it first they tried to help him by constructing hearing aids these were basically funnels that would condense the sound in directed into his ear. And you can see how they developed. And the more hearing he lost the bigger these aides got. How does it work how can you hear with a. Right. Here weve got a replica. This is. Listen its a brass instrument and he would put the aid on this sort of like a hair band and then whoever he was talking to but speaking here. How does this sound to you. It would make edith its so loud. Every september a huge festival is dedicated to beethoven it features both established stars and promising Young Artists but above all the visitors to the beatles the first one can soak up the Awesome Energy that Classical Music still exhibits to this day. Runs beethoven first is a major and highly prestigious Classical Music festival every september over fifty concerts feature in the main program alone naturally that includes music by lute big and beethoven. Twenty seventeen for instance spanish pianist javier pouty honest played the fourth piano concerto. Of course playing in a city like born and playing beethoven is something very special and that should be because. For there and for their patients to play in the city and dad where i was born beethoven. Twenty seventeen was the elected speaker to the interest where dont you better organized a public viewing on bonds mark not square. This is what the box. Wonderful to have this in bonn i brought him along he comes from iran and i just wanted to show him that Beethoven Festival here he began seeing its like. It was a really good i like. This vincent this in the guns should use ok. I think its nice that you can bring along your camping chairs and enjoy the whole thing in a completely different atmosphere. As a Beethoven Fest media partner deutsch of an invited some prominent guests every year the Beethoven Fests director nico wagner spotlights a new slogan and twenty seventeen it was about unfulfilled desire. As everyone knows beethoven had a hard time when it came to love he never found happiness with a family of his own he had his Long Distance affairs with his aristocratic piano students he was always unhappy. On the theme is biographical. But it also allows us to hold a festival under the general slogan of love. The perfect slogan to bring people closer to the music of beethoven at this years public viewing of the Beethoven Fest. Church is another setting of b. Two of these childhood it would have sounded Something Like this in the seventeen eighties. The young beatles used to play bach. Is a professor at the university of boston which this church now belongs to. You know i have this image in my head of the little guy on the organ with the whole church packed with people he didnt they take him seriously. I mean you have to remember that beethoven was like a child star and the ladies in waiting thought he was really cute because he was so young but played so well. People were kind of proud that they had such a talented year and its. Come. Visitors to will find out that attractions are limited to bring two of them there are plenty of other sites too for starters one was the capital of west germany for forty one years during the cold war. Several International Institutions have settled in the former government quarter of the x. West german capital among them is the United Nations campus in germany. Right next stored talk to tell us produces its programs in many languages for broadcast the world over. Also on the banks of the rhine are the headquarters of dr possed designed by star architect young. From one hundred forty nine thousand nine hundred ninety will germany was divided fall and served as the capital of west germany the parliamentary chambers are now a Historic Site and a venue for international conventions. Politics occasionally has a place here to the villa hama schmidt is the chairman president the second official residence. Of the chancellors bungalow is open to the public its a prime example of one nine hundred sixty s. Design. Of the leaders who lived within its minimalist walls only Helmut Schmidt and his wife loki are said to have felt truly at home. In the old. Town hall in mock plots at the citys Historic Center for nearly two hundred years the prince a lectors of cologne resided in bonn and left their mark on the old town. In one thousand nine hundred the university was established in the former electoral palace the pleasure garden became its campus. Phones museums offer an abundance of art culture and history. To. The house collects objects that became part of western life after nine hundred forty five among them are the limousine of west germanys first chancellor. And the parliamentarians first benches and chairs one sat on by home for a new trial as they discussed germanys reunification in one thousand nine hundred. Fifty two he is also a Major Institution in they rehearse here in the auditorium of the university. Dick cuffed on has been the conductor since summer two thousand and seventeen what does it mean to you battle beethoven as a driving force for us the cuffed as its in our name out there the beethoven orchestra and beyond his beethoven city. But its a blessing and a curse having such a title and your name but of course a big advantage of beethoven is that the name has so many positive connotations and if these are nominal fee opposing people feel been warned and become a. Beatles music has been around for so long how do you create something new something you havent heard before. It only works if you dont just commemorate and really are in the whole time with a look at what you have to take him down off the pedestal and then. Stand him as an energy is a source of inspiration a lawyer and he was always looking to discover something new and looking forwards to give new ideas and new music a chance to. Gauge it with the intellectual movements of the time and to create a better world thats honest thats all part of beethoven and its a tool of opportunity. Part of preserving beatles his legacy is also to perform less well known pieces like this sinfonie by the beatles the student fed the ninetys. Back to being two of them he was born here and born in seventeen hundred seventeen so in two thousand and twenty he would have turned two hundred fifty and bets and anniversary that deserves to be celebrated in style a whole year long a major event that you can already get a taste of now s. Chuck berry certainly not saying rock n roll beethoven. Many people have tried to modernize the interpretation of beethoven with varying degrees of success. The beginning verse or a year of twenty twentieths to pair this logo. For now and hamburg Advertising Agency created the mogul with help from experts on beethoven. Most people primarily associate beethoven with just the ninth symphony but theres so much more than that. Our hope is that the logo reflects this diversity and that other people will for. It in with other music perhaps or other content we want the logo to become famous worldwide as the beethoven brand throughout two thousand and twenty and beyond. And. The idea for the logo came from tel not under as hard. As a patron of the arts and an advertising expert he was confident that a contemporary logo would help give beethoven a modern image. And he could do that today where you get disobeyed because this is about beethoven about Magnificent Music and about beethoven the innovators who called about someone who looked to the future this is the objective we hope to achieve all through our logo or by. The origins of this logo live with beethoven himself the oddly modern abbreviation can be found in some of his original scores and it was the inspiration for the new logo a signature in the style of a text message with no vowels. The ambition for the anniversary year two thousand and twenty is to make the new logo a familiar sight all over the world. Another beatle the state you can be found in but it stuck out the park im here with Christine Lenz who is the artistic director of p. T. H. P. N. For a whole year in the run up to beatles anniversary on december seventeenth twenty twenty there will be a variety of concerts exhibitions and festivals. I know and thats as the artistic director. Im sure you cant tell me whats happening in twenty twenty five of the b. D. F. Or in the you could say the th b. N. Is our d. N. A. Its what guides us. Based on these five letters that stand for beethoven weve come up with five theme is being used to be a stands for bon beethoven stands for tone constant which is german for musician that of course is the main focus especially interesting as h. That stands for beethoven the human asked the values of the french revolution liberty equality and fraternity were important to him and he puts them across in his music the stands for visionary beethoven always broke the boundaries that is the form of composition in his time and shape the creativity of the future. And stands for beethoven as a friend of nature and. Beethoven sought inspiration and peace in nature essentially from a romantic perspective. And the United NationsClimate Change secretariat located here in bonn gives us a Reference Point for highlighting the question of humankind and nature from beethovens perspective and of course with a view to the future to begin with who went and what does beatles mean to you personally. That my grandchildren has been with me since i was a child ive always been interested in this music and especially the ideas in this utopia of a better world a better coexistence for humankind and i hear that and his music it working for that and presenting it to other people is something that gives me great joy. Because if id have. Time to leave the city the rhine will take me to another important location and i can also see the river and the nearby hill range z. B to enjoy the landscapes around this region and. The end of the story in begins to a certain extent. Met one of his musical idols. In the ballroom. This stuff. Hires out the formal ballroom for events shows me where they met maybe you can transported back in time what was it like in the eighteenth century when i was here. When i was employed with the prince the lectern. And he performed on it and had a regular salary. Of Haydn Beethoven in the redo. That i had been invited to visit on his return trip from london the elector wanted to show him the finished redo it. Came beethoven told him about his composition. I had hired and told him to come to vienna and he would help his career along. Today we say that was when he was discovered that all had been touted as. After that went to vienna. As i cant be in vienna at the same time we asked an expert from austria to show you the most important beethoven related locations in the composers adopted hometown. Hello hello and a warm welcome to vienna my names Dorothy Cotton misaka and its a pleasure to show you the city of vienna including a few places where beethoven lived and worked and been in a. Sense that he an ist im interested in beethoven is a master of the First Viennese School his music fascinated generations and speaks to the heart. And being there in many places in vienna that remind us of beethoven you can walk in his footsteps and visit residences that have survived to this day. Vienna gives you this special connection to beethoven on the sets and with a bit of. Interest beethoven moved a lot he once lived here in the possibility house. Beethoven worked on his only opera fidelio its incredible how easily we can look back in time. When if you know this is a city with lots of history so it has a very special atmosphere. And knowing the history of the great First Viennese Schoolmasters like Beethoven Mozart schubert and haydn gives you energy and inspiration. This is a recent get done and craft an inspirit so on. This toward us you know many of the documents have been preserved so you can really relive everything. Here in the house of music there are various exhibits and an interactive section about the era. The document thats important to me is the highly can start testimony it gives us a sense of how beethoven must have felt. He writes baron mind that for six years ive been afflicted with an incurable condition his deafness took him outside society it prevented him from taking part in conversations and here he really expressed his desperation. Does this debate this is beethovens apartment on lyme group near toronto under have seen where he also lived. In his historic rooms you can still sense the spirit of beethoven according to one story this is where he created the young friends list. That was an inspiring stroll im sure theres a lot more to see as a pianist ive been working with a top in music all my life good by now. My trip to the beatles in syria at the i taught soil the old Customs House with a view of the right time. And ive learned a lot typical travelling experience you start off quite curious and by the end youre usually quite impressed im already looking forward to the beat woman anniversary twenty twenty we will. The with the. United in the fight against global warming. Made in germany looks at the u. N. Climate change conference in bonn. High tech geo engineering influences the climate john goodman human activity is heating up the atmosphere of human activity can also counteract things like a sound idea or a Risky Business made in just. Thirty minutes on d. W. When cities are ingolf by the sea. That comes more. And costly protective measures with. Nothing. Thank you three. Mornings. Challenging our future starting november ninth on. Meet the germans new and surprising aspects of noise and culture in germany. Us american keep music takes a look at joining idiosyncracies at their traditions every day lives and language doesnt just come out of my life. So im young good just. Like a big guy a d w dot com the germans. Welcome to quadriga. A look at that there is music are you ready for this political visionary and she womens talk long t w about smart women. Smart talks like that we broke the record. Mark staking fancher the most in the next report youll find out just how this way. D. W. Made for mine. Freedom of expression. A value that always has to be defended and new. All over the world. Are to afraid of freedom of art. A multimedia project about artists and their right to express their views freely. D w dot com to freedom. This is news live from berlin President Donald Trump is in china the focal point of his First Official asian tour chinas president treats trump to a private tour of the forbidden city but just ahead likely tense talks between the worlds two superpowers at odds over