BRUCKNER MUSEUM
In Bruckner’s time and for several centuries before, the monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Upper Austria, huge, grand and powerful, dominated the region. It also dominated Bruckner’s …
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BRITTEN MUSEUM
Both Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears made it clear in their wills that they did not want the Red House, their Aldeburgh home from 1957, to become a museum: …
BREDICEANU MUSEUM
The town of Lugoj, in western Romania, is generally recognized as the country’s leading centre of choral music. It takes great pride in its musical heritage and has a …
Max Brand Archiv und Museum
BRAND The Austrian composer Max Brand is remembered almost entirely for a single composition: his opera Maschinist Hopkins, a kind of industrial, working-class counterpart to Lulu, which reached 41 …
Johannes Brahms Museums
BRAHMS MUSEUM A whistle-stop tour is very much in the spirit of Johannes Brahms’s life. He was a great traveller, mainly in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, but also to …
BOITO MUSEUM
The Parma conservatory, one of the premier institutions of its kind in Italy, is called the Conservatorio di Musica ‘Arrigo Boito’, and it is there that the eponymous composer …
Best Travel Destinations For 18 Year Olds
Best Travel Destinations For 18 Year Olds So, say you are flying to Thailand to be there in time for the monthly full moon party; but, you wish to …
BELLINI MUSEUM
The son and grandson of musicians, Vincenzo Bellini was born in 1801 in Catania, on the island of Sicily, in the shadow of Etna. The three-room flat in which …