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HANDEL MUSEUM The large middle-class house at the sign of the Yellow Stag’ in Halle, behind the Liebfrauenkirche, close to where George Frideric Handel was born on 23 February …
Oh, you re here! That’s Great Wood and that’s Bignor Farm! Crossing the road, within minutes I was back in secret woods I pretended no-one else knew about. Sometimes …
NENOV MUSEUM Razgrad, in north-eastern Bulgaria, close to the border with Romania, is the birthplace of the pianist and composer Dimiter Nenov (1902-53). The house, in a quiet, tree-lined …
MOZART MUSEUM The commemoration of Mozart, very much a family affair, provides a true reflection of his predominant image over the last two centuries as a prodigiously gifted youngster. …
DVORAK MUSEUM Four museums and memorial sites in or close to Prague celebrate the life and music of the Czechs’ most loved composer, Antonin Dvorak. Visitors to Prague music …
MATETlC RONJGOV MUSEUM The memorial to the Croatian Ivan Matetic Ronjgov is a living one, as befits a composer and folklorist whose life was dedicated to the rebirth and …
EGK MUSEUM Donauworth, a small town on the Danube in Swabia, about 50 km north of Augsburg, takes great pride in its connection with the 20th-century opera and ballet …
DUSSEK MUSEUM One of the great pianist-composers of his age, Jan Ladislav Dussek (or Dusik, in its original Czech spelling) had a truly international career: as a young man …