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Beethoven

Short and Sweet: I'm a HUGE fan and want to go where Beethoven walked, breathed the air...so I can say I was in the same "space" as the Master. Bonn I assume but where in Bonn? The Beethoven House? FYI: I will be in Germany 9 nights flying into Munich and out of Berlin. ty

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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).

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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.

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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 "

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

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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.

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OP, just look in link I posted already. 18 Beethoven relevant possible destinations in these cities. Just read and decide because nobody knows what teases you most.

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5382 posts

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

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2230 posts

Emily, do you mean that seriously?

If yes: I am aware of that but 3 things.

(1) OP was not mentioning that this was her / his problem with the link. Therefore I assumed that link was not seen or checked when still asking for locations.

(2) The text contains the name of every location in headlines which is a good base for research. Some contain valid links to websites from which some are available in English. Example : https://www.beethoven.de/sixcms/list.php?template=home

(3) I guess everybody has ways of translation already and additionally knows or is able to find out in 1 minute how to deal with web pages in foreign languages. From a real Beethoven fan I assumed 100% that she / he read already something in native language of her / his star which needs in this case translation. Do you know "Ode an die Freude"? The text is German language originally from Schiller - and what a German language.

But if someone does not know how to translate a web page: Either you copy passages to be translated into Google Translate or you install the add-on into your browser before opening the page. Just enter "install google translate [browser name]" into a search engine and you have the tutorial. Alernatively install the app on your mobile device.

Latest in Germany or Austria OP will need it seriously.

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

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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.

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151 posts

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.

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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