Beethovenfest 2009
Great Classical Music in Bonn
Seventy-five concerts in 30 days: the Beethovenfest is back, the international music festival that every year Bonn dedicates to its most notable citizen, Ludwig van Beethoven. This year theme “Im Licht/In the Light” underlines the importance that romanticism assigns to the artist and to the cult of the genius, to the soloist as independent music personality.
Among the big artists that will be on the stage in Bonn, since 4th September until 3rd October, there are, for instance, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, as a tribute to the baroque music with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, Valery Gergiev, who will assist Alexei Volodin at the piano and the London Symphony Orchestra, Maurizio Pollini, Krzysztof Penderecki, with Rudolf Buchbinder, at the piano and the Sinfonia Varsovia, Kent Nagano, leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, for the grand final. Other excellent names of the music panorama at the Beethovenfest include, among the others, David Garrett, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Paavo Järvi, Sol Gabetta, Ingo Metzmacher.
In the year of the celebrations of the 60° anniversary of the birth of the Federal Republic of Germany, guest of honour the Chancellor Angela Merkel, the former capital Bonn celebrates, Sunday 6th September, with fourteen one-hour concerts in six politically-significant venues, like the museum Haus der Geschichte, dedicated to the national history, and the old venue of the Federal Council.
The concerts and the exhibitions of the Beethovenfest will take place in very different places: in the concert hall Beethovenhalle, at the Bonn Opera, at Beethoven’s house, in the old venue of the Federal Council, in some of the most modern museums of the city. During the 30 days of the festival Bonn turns into a big open theatre, live and rich of events.
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Angela Merkel, Beethovenfest, Beethovenhalle, Bonn, David Garrett, English Baroque Soloists, Haus der Geschichte, Im Licht/In the Light, Ingo Metzmacher, John Eliot Gardiner, Kent Nagano, Krzysztof Penderecki, London Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Maurizio Pollini, Monteverdi Choir, Paavo Järvi, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Rudolf Buchbinder, Sinfonia Varsovia, Sol Gabetta, Valery Gergiev
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