The five-day scholarly conference is a part of the Beethoven Summit ‘25 – a larger event which also includes a festival. The conference itself focuses on a reconsideration of established approaches to Beethoven’s music and a review of discoveries that have shed new light on the subject. Six distinguished musicologists from the Continent and the United Kingdom will be in residence during the course of the conference.

The Summit’s overall purpose is to bring performers and scholars together in order to discuss and exchange insights about Beethoven’s works and their interpretation in light of current findings — thus bringing us closer to the original sound of Beethoven’s music.

The Summit offerings include concerts and recitals by renowned artists, period-instrument orchestras, contemporary orchestras, choruses, and ensembles; presentations of scholarly papers by Beethoven scholars; and public forums/panel discussions involving conductors, instrumentalists, singers, and musicologists. The intent is to bring the worlds of performance and scholarship together for the sole purpose of helping us come closer to the original glory of Beethoven’s music.