Of Chickens and Farms

In the summer of 2025, the idea of telling musical stories from the Bonn of the young Ludwig van Beethoven with the Beethoven Orchestra is more than seven years old. In preparation for the Beethoven anniversary in 2020, we asked ourselves how we could best resurrect Beethoven in Bonn. The answer seemed as simple as it was obvious: by playing the music he grew up with. Music that he played as a pianist, organist and violist, that he listened to at...