Back in the day, to learn a musical instrument you would need to go to a teacher who’d have you running through tedious scales, learning songs you didn’t care for, and would probably smack you on the back of the hands with a conductor’s baton if you made a mistake.

It’s Beethoven 2020! What does that mean? Well, this year marks the 250^th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Beethoven, one of the most famous composers of all time, was born 250 years ago in Bonn, Germany. Unfortunately, many people do not associate Beethoven with Bonn, nor do they even know he is from there because Beethoven wrote his most well-known symphonies in Vienna; so, that’s where people tend to associate Beethoven with.