We are providing teaching materials for three of the concerts in the Rhein-Sieg district as part of the 2026 Beethovenfest. Why not round off the programme with a trip to a concert with your class?
At Home in the World: The Adenauer Concert Series
School materials
, Steigenberger Grandhotel PetersbergJonathan Leibovitz & Friends
Chamber MusicCharlotte Saluste-Bridoux, Eylam Keshet
Schumann, Brahms, Ben-Haim
To accompany the three concerts, we have developed free teaching materials that can be used flexibly in music lessons – to prepare for or follow up on a concert visit, and to open up new perspectives and ways of listening. Using individual works as a starting point, the materials explore questions relating to the themes of understanding, exchange and encounter. The content was created in close collaboration with the musicians themselves: we have adapted their thematic, personal and work-specific ideas into educational materials for your pupils.
The materials are structured to be used in a modular way: you can select tasks individually, adopt them in full, or adapt them to suit your needs. The materials are not only aimed at music classes, but explicitly also at pupils with little or no prior musical knowledge, and can therefore be used just as effectively in history, politics or German lessons.
The teaching materials will be available to you free of charge from June.
You are welcome to contact us now if you would like to attend these reference concerts with Johnny Gandelsman, Jonathan Leibovitz or Robert Quinney with your class.
Participate
→ for school classes from upper secondary level onwards
The school materials are free of charge. School classes can purchase discounted concert tickets for €5 per pupil. Teachers can register their groups by email at mitmachen@beethovenfest.de or by telephone on +49 228 2010323.
About the Adenauer Concert Series
To mark the 150th anniversary of Konrad Adenauer’s birth and in commemoration of the bilateral relations shaped by the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, international musicians will bring their homelands to the stage: at five venues across the Rhein-Sieg district, they will represent the countries and regions that played a central role in Adenauer’s international diplomatic endeavours. The American violinist Johnny Gandelsman, the British organist Robert Quinney, the Israeli clarinettist Jonathan Leibovitz, the French Quatuor Ébène and the crossover quartet Uwaga!, representing Eastern Europe, will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Ben-Haim, Brahms, Mozart, Schulhoff, Schumann and contemporary American composers, amongst others.
