With Virtual Reality to Beethoven - Museum presents new game

At the Beethoven House in Bonn, the composer can be experienced in a new and playful way in a combination of gaming, rap and classical music.

Young Beethoven meets modern rap: The Beethoven House in Bonn is organising such a meeting with the help of virtual reality. Visitors could immerse themselves in a virtual world in an exhibition and experience the composer in a combination of gaming, rap and classical music in a new and playful way.

Classical music not boring

As the museum announced on Thursday, there are now ten VR glasses and joysticks in its special exhibitions area to assist the young Ludwig in a rap battle. Among other things, the game is about love - Beethoven was often unhappily in love - and his revolutionary thoughts. The game is intended to help people get to know the globally revered musician better. "The classic Beethoven is confronted with contemporary culture," said North Rhine-Westphalia's State Secretary for Culture Gonca Türkeli-Dehnert (CDU). The project will arouse the interest of new target groups.

Die Sonderausstellung „Beethoven // Opus 360“ bleibt vom 12. August bis zum 18. September im Geburtshaus des Komponisten in Bonn. Später soll sie in Wien und anderen Orten gezeigt werden. Entwickelt wurde das Spiel von einer gemeinnützigen Bildungsinitiative, die das Vorurteil entkräften will, dass klassische Musik langweilig sei.

After Bach so it's Beethoven's turn, just cooler.

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