1. Bonn: A Town on the Rhine

2. Beethoven's Family: Settling in Bonn

3. Young Beethoven, Nature Explorer

4. The Beethovens at Home

5. Beethoven, the Young Traveler

6. Beethoven's Education

7. Bonn's Musical Life

8. Musical Networking in Bonn

9. Honoring Beethoven in Bonn

A school in eighteenth-century Germany

Adolf von Henselt

Andreas Romberg

Announcement of a concert in Cologne on March 26, 1778, featuring two of Johann van Beethoven’s students, including his “six-year-old” son Ludwig

Arrival of Maximilian Franz on the Marktplatz in Bonn on October 3, 1780

Beethoven’s baptism on December 17, 1770

Bernhard Romberg

Bonn Court Almanac from 1791 with list of court orchestra musicians

Breuning family drinking tea

Breuning family silhouette, 1782

Enlargement from a map of Germany from 1743

Excerpt of letter from Beethoven to Joseph von Schaden, September 15, 1787

Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel, Count von Waldstein (1762–1832)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Franz Ries (1755–1846)

Friedrich Kalkbrenner

Grave of Beethoven's mother in Bonn

Hanau and Steinheim

Helene von Breuning (1750–1838)

Housing list for members of the Bonn Court Orchestra for their tour in Mergentheim

Johann and Maria Magdalene (1746–1787) van Beethoven, Beethoven’s parents

Leaf from Fischer Manuscript, fol. 9r

Leaf from one of Beethoven’s Conversation Books, ca. December 4–6, 1826

Liszt at the Piano

Location of St. Remigius Church in Bonn

Lola Montez (1818–1861)

Map of Germany from 1743

Map of Germany from 1743: Regensburg to Vienna

Map of the Rhine from Bonn to Coblenz, 1743

Map of the political and administrative divisions of the Bonn court in 1789

Map of the region west of Bonn, including Rheinback (Rynback) and Ahrweiler (Arwiler)

Map showing Cologne and Bensberg

Map showing Oberkassel on the east side of the Rhine, and the village of Honnef near Breitbach, and Siegburg in the north east

Map showing the route along the Main and Lauber rivers from Aschaffenburg to Mergentheim

Map showing towns along the Main, including Rüsselheim, Hanau, Steinheim, and Aschaffenburg

Maximilian Franz, Elector of Cologne, on horseback

Miniature portraits of Christoph (1773–1841) and Stephan von Breuning (1774–1827)

Nikolaus Simrock (1751–1832)

Obituary notice for Beethoven’s mother, July 16, 1787

Organ console played by Beethoven at the St. Remigius church, now at the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn

Prelude in C Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846

Prince Karl Lichnowsky (1761–1814)

Program of the carnival season in Bonn in 1774

Receipt for Beethoven’s performance in The Hague on November 23, 1783

Regensburgisches Diarium from January 9, 1787, with list of visitors to the city

Rüsselheim

Selection from the Magazin der Musik, edited by Carl Friedrich Cramer, 1. Jahrgang (1783), pp. 394-395

Siegburg

Sigismond Thalberg

The inauguration ceremonies on August 12, 1845

View from the Bonn side of the flooded shore at Beuel in 1784