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 …
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CHARPENTIER MUSEUM
CHARPENTIER MUSEUM In a room of the Musee de Montmartre in Paris the study of the composer Gustave Charpentier has been reconstructed. Charpentier, born in 1860, spent most of …
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Micro Less than 100ml in volume. Usually an old 35mm film canister. Somebody had to find a use for those plastic tubes once we ditched celluloid and went digital …
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 …
FRANZ MUSEUM
FRANZ MUSEUM Robert Franz was Halle’s most important composer in the 19th century. He was born there, at Brunoswarte 13, the son of a ‘Salzwagenladermeister’ (salt-wagon loading foreman), on …
CIORTEA MUSEUM
CIORTEA MUSEUM Among the buildings nestled in the grounds of the basilica of St Nicolas in Brasov is one designated the ‘Tudor Ciortea Memorial House’. Ciortea (1903-78), a composer …
GERBIC MUSEUM
GERBIC MUSEUM Although little known beyond his native Slovenia, Fran Gerbic played an important role in his country’s musical culture. He was not only a composer (his works include …
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, …
GRUODIS MUSEUM
GRUODIS MUSEUM The hillside house overlooking the river Neris where the Lithuanian expressionist composer Juozas Gruodis lived was in what were then bucolic surroundings, south-east of Kaunas. Today it …