PUCCINI MUSEUM
PUCCINI MUSEUM In no country is nationality as localized as it is in Italy. Giacomo Puccini was not just an Italian composer but a Lucchese: he was born in …
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TANEYEV MUSEUM
TANEYEV MUSEUM Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915), who for many years was professor of piano and composition at Moscow Conservatory and briefly its director, is quietly commemorated twice near Moscow: …
PROKOFIEV MUSEUM
PROKOFIEV MUSEUM Prokofiev’s father, an agronomist, was working on an estate in the village of Sontsovka when in 1891 Sergey Sergeyevich was born. The village, now called Krasnoye, is …
STRAUSS MUSEUM
STRAUSS MUSEUM There is a famous tale about Richard Strauss. Recalling that when the prim, disapproving Kaiser Wilhelm heard Salome, and said ‘It will do Strauss no good’, he …
ROSSINI MUSEUM
ROSSINI MUSEUM The legacy of Gioachino Rossini is important to Pesaro, a handsome city on the Adriatic coast some 40 km south of Rimini. The local music conservatory, which …
RYBA MUSEUM
RYBA MUSEUM Should you happen to approach Rozmital pod Tremsmem from the south-west, by the road from Nepomuk and Klatovy, you may be surprised to see a sign by …
SCHNEIDER-TRNAVSKY
SCHNEIDER-TRNAVSKY Trnava, some 50 km north-east of Bratislava, is often called the ‘Slovakian Rome’, and for almost half a century its musical pope was Mikulass Schneider-Trnavsky. Born in the …
14 Days in Southern New Zealand: My Diary
New Zealand is one of the most beautiful holiday destinations I have ever been to but as is the bane of every adventurer, I never get to spend enough …
4 Team-Building Trip Ideas for Tech Teams
According to the “State of the American Workplace” report issued by Gallup in 2017, 70% of American employees feel disengaged at work. Unhappy and unmotivated workers can lead to …
NOWOWIEJSKI MUSEUM
NOWOWIEJSKI MUSEUM In a small town in northern Poland once known as Wartenburg, but now as Barczewo, the composer Feliks Nowowiejski was born in 1877. The fifth of eleven …