Following the Ukraine and Turkey, this year the invitation goes to Georgia, a nation with significant cultural traditions and diverse connections to Germany ... in Bonn's Beethoven Hall.

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

His dissertation on the sketchbook for Beethoven's Mass in C led to a commission from the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn to create the critical edition ... and at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart ...