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MUSORGSKY MUSEUM Modest Petrovich Musorgsky came from a wealthy land-owning family from western Russia. He was born in 1839 on an estate in the Kun’ya region of the Pskov …
PARRY MUSEUM Shulbrede Priory was an Augustinian foundation, probably dating from around 1190, in the parish of Lynchmere (or Linchmere) in the north-west corner of Sussex, close to Haslemere …
KLEIN MUSEUM Gideon Klein was one of the Jewish Czech composers imprisoned in the Nazi transit camp at Terezm in 1941; he spent nearly three years there and died …
KLEMETTI MUSEUM The name of Heikki Klemetti is little known beyond Finland, but in his native land Klemetti was an influential and much-loved figure. He was born in 1876 …
MENDELSSOHN MUSEUM In the autumn of 1845, Felix Mendelssohn and his family rented a spacious first-floor flat in a newly built block at Konigstrafie 3, now Goldschmidtstrafie 12, just …
HUMMEL MUSEUM Deep within the Old Town of Bratislava, just off the square dominated by the Primatial Palace, a little architectural pearl is hidden behind an improbable shell of …
Heliloojate Kappide Majamuuseum Suure-Jaani is a village, largely of wooden buildings, in central Estonia, about 150 km south of Tallinn, a short way off the main southerly road to …
Mountain rescue. So much more than mountains. Mountain rescue team members are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – whatever the weather -to recover climbers …