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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
No composer is better served by museums than Beethoven. That is not surprising: almost universally seen as the greatest of the great during most of the 19th century and …
BECKFORD MUSEUM The inclusion of William Beckford here may raise eyebrows. Music was one of the ruling passions of his privileged life and composition one of his leisure pursuits. …
Best Travel Destinations Uk group. I remember declining the invitation; but, he was so persistent and pleasant, I finally gave in. I can’t remember which of the band members …