LENNON MUSEUM
LENNON MUSEUM It is impossible to visit Liverpool without being reminded of its connection with the Beatles. Arriving by air, you land at John Lennon Airport (so named in …
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LIVADlC MUSEUM
LIVADlC MUSEUM You can’t easily miss the composer Ferdo Livadic if you visit the Croatian town of Samobor, just a dozen kilometres west of Zagreb, close to the Slovenian …
GRUBER MUSEUM
GRUBER MUSEUM The best-loved composer in the Salzburg region? To judge by the number of museums, there can be only one possible answer: Franz Xaver Gruber. On Christmas Eve …
ERKEL MUSEUM
ERKEL MUSEUM Gyula, in the south-eastern corner of Hungary, close to the Romanian border, makes the most of the accident of birth that led to its being the native …
FALLA MUSEUM
FALLA MUSEUM At the end of a quiet little lane on the southern slopes of the Alhambra, overlooking Granada and the panorama of the valley and the Sierra Nevada …
GLINKA MUSEUM
GLINKA MUSEUM Its remoteness should not deter admirers of Glinka’s music from visiting the museum at his birthplace in south-west Russia. Don’t assume that it is in the place …
ClURLIONIS MUSEUM
ClURLIONIS MUSEUM Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis is held in the same kind of regard by Lithuanians as Sibelius is by Finns, and he is similarly commemorated in his country. Ciurlionis …
CASALS MUSEUM
CASALS MUSEUM Casals, the great cellist, a composer? Yes, though mainly in the service of his faith and of his mentorship of younger cellists. For Pablo – or Pau, …
CHOPIN MUSEUM
CHOPIN MUSEUM As one of the most Romantic and most appealing of composers, Fryderyk Chopin is widely commemorated – most of all, of course, in his native Poland, but …
BULL MUSEUM
BULL MUSEUM The violinist Ole Bull (1810-80) was a lovable and gifted if quirky character, largely forgotten today despite international fame in his lifetime as a virtuoso and a …