Ulrike Scholda, director of the Beethoven house in Baden bei Wien, Austria, poses next to a letter (on temporary loan from the Beethoven house in Bonn, western Germany) in which Beethoven wrote to his former student that he was working very hard to complete the 9th symphony, while he was actually in Baden to recuperate, on display at the Beethovenhaus museum, where German composer Ludwig van Beethoven spent some of his summers and composed sections of his Ninth Symphony, on April 30, 2024 in Baden bei Wien, Austria. The house is presenting a special exhibition entitled "The Path of the Ninth - from Baden to the World", running from April 27, 2024 to November 3, 2024. Austria celebrates the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which had its world premiere on May 7, 1824 at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. (Photo by Joe Klamar / AFP)