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the year 2020 is the 250th anniversary

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of beethoven's birth

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and germany is ready to celebrate

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but nowhere more so than his hometown of

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bonn

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this great big story was made possible

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by the german national tourist board

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beethoven lived more than 22 years in

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bonn and there are many places here that

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are associated with beethoven

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my name is marty burkha i'm the director

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of the beethoven house we're in front of

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the beethoven house beethoven's

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birthplace in 1770

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and it's considered one of the best

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visited music museums in the world

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i'm standing in front of the beethoven

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monument and it's the first monument

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dedicated to beethoven ever and we are

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very proud to have a tien bon

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this is one of 22 installations and this

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is our form of presenting the beethoven

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city bond to the world

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i think he'd be pretty

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happy to see that his music is still

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relevant is still performed

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and he would encourage us to look to the

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future

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the city of bond during the day is

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beautiful but at night it really shines

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in honour of beethoven's 250th

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anniversary the city of bonn in germany

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is lighting up the night with some

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installations inspired by him and his

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workshops

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philippe

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from sight to sound one 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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the music continues outside of bonn with

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some curious self-playing instruments

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located in germany there is a museum of

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antique self-playing mechanical music

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instruments where you can hear

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beethoven's classical orchestral

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arrangements played

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i belong to

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siegfried's mechanical music cabinet

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they were the first possibility to

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listen to music without the help of a

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human being

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and as a composer

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to write music and have it played

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exactly like you wanted to the oldest

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instrument is from 1780

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and it's a clear maya flute clock

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fairground organ is one of the most

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favorite the hopfelt funnelist violina

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plays six violins at the same time

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together with piano

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usually people don't know about these

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instruments anymore and it's a lot of

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dancing and singing it's more fun in

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here

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and finally two performers who celebrate

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beethoven every day by reimagining his

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works with one piano and four hands

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we want to combine piano and

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entertainment and make classical pieces

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more accessible to the audience

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we are pia entertainment marcel don and

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stefan v we perform all over the world

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in more than 100 countries till now

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beethoven is one of the most famous

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composers and he gave so much to the

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world with his music and now we live in

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2020 and it's the beethoven year that's

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a great chance to bring his work back

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on stage in our way four-handed show

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elements and

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a bit more funny than he was himself

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the audience is amazed how we put

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together old beethoven with a new style

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of latin of sambar etc

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sharing an instrument you have to be

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like series twins four hands

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one piano one artist

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