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Beethoven 2020 in Vienna

Vienna and Ludwig van Beethoven. Musical city meets musical genius. The revolutionary composer spent 35 of his 57 years here and left behind many traces: a large Beethoven Museum, preserved apartments and places of his triumphs and despair, memorials and Klimt's Beethoven Frieze – through to the Beethoven heuriger.

Beethoven would have celebrated his 250th birthday in 2020. He was born in 1770 in Bonn, where he started his career as a talented pianist. At the age of 22, he came to Vienna for the second time as a pupil of Joseph Haydn, this time to stay until his death in 1827. He created sounds that still inspire the world of music today.

A series of concerts, opera performances and exhibitions: in Beethoven Year 2020, music lovers can get very close to the composer in Vienna.

Stars of the music world, who are Viennese by choice like Beethoven was, have their say at musik2020.wien.info. International stars such as Billy Joel, Hans Zimmer, Yuja Wang and Joshua Bell and Julian Rachlin all rave about Vienna and talk about their very personal relationship with Beethoven in a series of interviews.

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Meet Beethoven with Alexa and Google Home

Enable the Alexa Skill “Beethoven's Vienna” and follow in the footsteps of one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time. Learn …

Billy Joel

All Ears on: Vienna

Vienna and music – they belong together. The focus in 2020 is on those artists and institutions that make Vienna the world capital of music.

Beethoven's apartment in Heiligenstadt

Beethoven Museum

Nowadays, Vienna's biggest Beethoven Museum presents the composer in a modern exhibition sequence through 14 rooms. Beethoven lived in this building when …

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Through Vienna with Beethoven

Experience the interactive Beethoven city walk with the Audio Augmented Reality glasses from Bose.

Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Konzerthaus

Beethoven in concert

In Beethoven Year 2020, Vienna's orchestras and music institutions will celebrate the brilliant composer with numerous, exciting musical projects. Here …

Theater an der Wien

Beethoven at the opera

Beethoven wrote only one opera, namely "Fidelio". In Beethoven Year 2020, two Viennese opera houses bring the various versions of this unique work to …

Beethoven exhibitions

In the anniversary year 2020, a diverse series of exhibitions will unfold, illuminating all facets of the life and work of the brilliant composer in …

Hans Schliessmann: Beethoven (at the piano), 1903

All Beethoven events in 2020

Vienna celebrates the 250th birthday of the brilliant musician with a wealth of events. Join in the party – with all the Beethoven events shown …

Front view of Heurigen Restaurant Mayer am Pfarrplatz

Beethoven walk to download

You can download a very detailed Beethoven walk for specialists here.

Beethoven monument

Ludwig van Beethoven walk

Learn about Beethoven's homes and memorials, the places of his triumphs and despair, Klimt's famous Beethoven Frieze, monuments and a cozy wine …

Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt

Klimt's Beethoven Frieze

In 1902, Klimt created one of his most famous works, the Beethoven Frieze, for an exhibition of the Secession movement.

Musicians’ graves at the Central Cemetery

Even more Beethoven

A stay of three and a half decades and almost 40 residences – Beethoven's works in Vienna left behind a wealth of traces: monuments, his burial place, …