Beethoven

The city of Bonn has a tourist info site that may give you some ideas
https://www.bonn-region.de/sightseeing-and-culture/beethovenrundgang-en.html
But you have to go Vienna Austria to complete your Beethoven tour

VIENNA is where Beethoven happened.

Yes, you need to go to Vienna.... where Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Strauß, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler walked and breathed the air too. And if you fly out of Berlin you can stop in Dresden (Wagner, Weber, Schütz), Leipzig (Bach, Mendelssohn Bartholdy), Zwickau (Schumann) or Weimar (Liszt).

Hi,

In Bonn, yes, the place to go for that purpose is the Beethoven House.

For Weber there are two places, but Weber's house in Eutin/Holstein, signs point the way from the train station as you walk into the Altstadt.

For Bruckner (if you want more), the place to go is Linz, Memorial plaques on Bruckner, the concert hall is named after him, etc.

Mozart's house, like Vienna, is there in Linz too as indicated on the big map in the Zentrum but that address shows where Mozart lived, it's not a museum.

TY all sorry for the delay

If you can work it out to visit Vienna , Beethoven's grave is in the composer's section of The Central Cemetery ( Zentralfriedhof ) Keep in mind the infamous comment attributed to the great filmmaker Billy Wilder - " The Viennese were the only people who were able to convince the world that Hitler was a German , and Beethoven , an Austrian "

What would be preferable Bonn or Vienna to "experience" Beethoven? 9 days, fly to Munich out Berlin. Salzburg is a strong possibility as well.

Ideally, both places Bonn and Vienna. If you want more Beethoven in Vienna, take the U-4 to Heiligenstadt. It's the Endstation (terminus). Beethoven lived there when he realised that his hearing was deteriorating.

Here is a link from the Vienna tourist board outlining some of the many Beethoven sights - https://www.wien.info/en/music-stage-shows/city-of-music/beethoven-memorials

You can also visit his grave and numerous other houses he lived in.

MarkK - the link you provided is entirely in German. I doubt the OP can read it.

Schiller's text in the original to "Ode to Joy" is absolutely lovely. Better to sing it in the original.

MarkK - I see you're new here. You'll quickly realize that OP's don't really pay much attention to the details. If you are a native German speaker, I don't think you appreciate how this article looks through an English speakers lens.

TY again, all good stuff. I don't care for the contentious back and forth...There is some good feedback gleaned in all of your replies. I don't speak German at all but can still figure out the gist of the various links, etc.

The second place to see the museum of Weber, a contemporary of Beethoven, is in Dresden-Holsterwitz.

@ MarkK...Thanks for the link, contains very valuable information, eg, didn't know of the Beethovenplatz in Vienna