Year after year, Leopold Hager, who will turn ninety in 2025, conducts the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, proving once again that it is still a luxury to see him in action, still displaying some of his trademarks in all their splendor, such as his precision and intensity, that when he heard the still adolescent Beethoven playing the piano, he exclaimed: "Listen to this boy. One day the world will talk about him." A few years later, four to be exact, Beethoven began his composition apprenticeship with Franz Joseph Haydn, Mozart's "father, guide, and friend," shortly before the maestro left for London again. The circle closes with another circumstance: Austria, where Haydn and Beethoven met, naturally Haydn and Mozart also met, but it is also where Leopold Hager was born and began his career.