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Najla Sadek
‐Pianist & Vocalist

‐Studied piano at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory
of Music

‐Attended piano master classes with Jordi Mora, Vartan
Agopian, Gerlint Böttcher, Billy Eidi
‐Attended hundreds of classical music concerts and operas

There is only one BEETHOVEN !

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet”
Ludwig Van Beethoven

Wish I could write my article in Beethoven’s music notes …Nevertheless I will try to transfer his music and
philosophy through alphabet letters.

Every year in the autumn
Beethoven’s native city of Bonn Beethoven’s 5th symphony, 1st mvt
celebrates the Beethovenfest
(Beethoven Festival), welcoming top
international orchestras, well-known
soloists, major ensembles and
promising young performers.
Bonn, Cologne

The festival features now more
The Beethovenfest Bonn feels a than 60 concerts at more than 25
responsibility to contribute to the Beethovenfest venues each year. The stages include
shaping of the repertoire of the 21st venues in the old town and, of course,
century; every year it commissions The tradition of the the Beethovenhalle (Beethoven Hall)
and premieres a number of pieces Beethovenfest goes back to the year and the Chamber music room at
supporting contemporary music in 1845, when a three-day long music Beethovenhaus, the house where the
addition to exceptional interpretations festival to dedicate the Beethoven composer was born, as well as many
of Beethoven’s sonatas, string monument took place in the attractive venues in the region. These
quartets and symphonies. This well- Münsterplatz on the occasion of the include palaces and churches, historic
known festival is innovative not just in composer’s 75th birthday. The British buildings such as Petersberg
its commission policy, but also in its Queen Victoria and her Prince Albert Guesthouse, Drachenburg Castle, the
approach to Beethoven and his œuvre, were among the guests, as were the old Waterworks or Palais
seeking to promote new ways to Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV Schaumburg, but also exciting,
confront the composer and his work. and the natural scientist Alexander von modern architectural premises such
Humboldt. From the very beginning, as the Post Tower Lounge or the Art
the citizens of Bonn were particularly and Exhibition Hall of the Federal
committed to the famous son of the Republic of Germany. The pair of
city and to the new festival. In 1845, in terms "Beethoven - Joy" has been
eleven days, Bonn's craftsmen built the using Bonn for its umbrella brand for
first wooden Beethoven Hall to more than a decade: It links
accommodate an audience of 3,000. Beethoven with the Rhenish “joie de
The composer and piano virtuoso vivre” and - through its
Franz Liszt was the driving force and multilingualism - with the
generous sponsor at the time, arguing internationality that Bonn has been
that the small town was fortunate that able to refer to since it became the
a great man had seen the light of day in German city of the United Nations in
it and that his memory was not to be the mid-1990s. International city, city
celebrated in a small-town way. of innovation, city of the Basic Law
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