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 …
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LISZT MUSEUM
LISZT MUSEUM Franz Liszt was one of the great travellers among composers. Were his overnight resting-places across Europe marked by plaques, like the one-night stands ascribed (apocryphally or otherwise) …
PANN MUSEUM
PANN MUSEUM Anton Pann (1796-1854) is unique among the composers who appear in this book: although trained in music, a writer of psalms and a collector of folk music, …
Washington Hiking Map
Webcam cache At webcam caches there are no log sheets or books. When a geocacher finds a webcam cache they phone a friend to log on to the relevant …
GOLOVANOV MUSEUM
GOLOVANOV MUSEUM The central Moscow flat of Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov (b 1891), an eminent Soviet-era conductor and composer, is not just a musician’s living quarters but a miniature art …
Troldhaugen Museum
Troldhaugen Museum Troldhaugen (Troll Hill), about ten kilometres south of Bergen in the fjords of western Norway, was the home of Edvard Grieg (b 1843) and his wife Nina. …
ENESCU MUSEUM
ENESCU MUSEUM The Romanians take enormous pride in George Enescu: he was a great violinist and teacher, a composer of international stature and a man who deeply loved his …
ELGAR MUSEUM
ELGAR MUSEUM Discovering Edward Elgar’s birthplace, at Lower Broadheath, just outside Worcester, is an adventure in itself. It can also, with the help of the delightful ‘Elgar Route’ signs …
Big Sur Hikes Map
SCALES It is important that you should understand your scales. However, this has nothing to do with singing ‘The Happy Wanderer’ while traipsing gaily through the hills. It’s the …
STERC MUSEUM
STERC MUSEUM The small village of Verzej, in the northwestern corner of Slovenia, is the birthplace of one of the country’s leading composers of the inter-war period. Slavko Osterc, …