DUSSEK MUSEUM
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 …
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MOKRANJAC MUSEUM
MOKRANJAC MUSEUM More than any other composer, Stevan Mokranjac is reckoned the father-figure of Serbian music, and revered and remembered warmly. Born in 1856, he underwent a fairly conventional …
North Georgia Hiking Trails Map
Carrion de los Condes is my destination for the day and I head straight for the Convent de Santa Clara, a gem of a place to spend the night …
DITTERSDORF MUSEUM
DITTERSDORF MUSEUM There are several villages called Dittersdorf in Saxony and Thuringia, but that’s not where Carl Ditters came from. He was Viennese, born and bred, more Viennese than …
DEBUSSY MUSEUM
DEBUSSY MUSEUM The schoolhouse museum at Piebalga Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the well-heeled outer suburb west of Paris, on 22 August 1862. On the ground floor of …
Mt Greylock Hiking Map
All this whilst continuing to practise and hone their first aid skills, technical ropework, water rescue and search management, and maintaining their bases, equipment and vehicles. Forty-eight mountain rescue …
D’INDY MUSEUM
D’INDY MUSEUM A panoramic view of the Alps inspired Vincent d’Indy not only to compose his Symphonie sur un chant montagnard frangais (1886) but also to build a neoGothic …
COWARD MUSEUM
COWARD MUSEUM Composer, actor, playwright, librettist, singer, pianist, painter: Noel Coward was the complete man of the theatre, with a style of his own that in many ways epitomizes …