Germany will spend 27 million on Beethoven year

Germany will spend 27 million on Beethoven year

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norman lebrecht

November 11, 2016

The budgets have been published for the commeration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 2020.

Culture Secretary Monika Grütters has allocated 27 million Euros and Chancellor Angela Merkel has just nodded it through.

A significant chunk of money will go to the composer’s birthplace, Bonn, which has been a bit of a ghost town since the government moved to Berlin.

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