Beethoven-Haus

Beethoven's birthplace museum with manuscripts and instruments

Address Bonngasse 20, 53111 Bonn
Phone +49-228-9817525

Birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven, now a museum housing the world's largest Beethoven collection. You will find original manuscripts, his last grand piano, ear trumpets, and personal letters spread across twelve rooms. The attached Kammermusiksaal hosts intimate chamber concerts.

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A story
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the modest back rooms of this house in December 1770. His family lived here in cramped quarters -- his father, a court musician with a drinking problem, would wake the young Ludwig in the middle of the night to practise.