Composers reinterpret Beethoven

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woman is uniting

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with composers across the globe to

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curate and perform 250 original

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compositions inspired by beethoven's

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work

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having born in the focus of contemporary

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composers is the best thing you could

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give beethoven as a birthday gift

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my name is susana kessel i'm a concert

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pianist i'm organizing and managing the

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project 250 piano pieces for beethoven

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in 2020 the large beethoven anniversary

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will take place and as a bond citizen i

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wanted to do a large project for him

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i thought of asking 250 composers all

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over the world for personal commissions

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for piano pieces that refer to

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beethoven's music or his personality or

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his deafness all composers were free to

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do what they like

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i always perform other people's music

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and this is something that makes me

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really really happy of course that

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through beethoven people

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have the connection to new music

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[Music]

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the music continues outside of bonn with

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some curious