Only hesitantly could the old powers agree on a common action against revolutionary France. After the "first...

Only hesitantly could the old powers agree on a common action against revolutionary France. After the "first...
Mailänderli are the most popular and most frequently baked Christmas biscuit in Switzerland. In Austria, of course, we...
François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829) came from a Walloon peasant family. At the age of six, he was already a choirboy at...
Eugène Bozza, who was born in Nice in 1905 and died in Valenciennes in 1991, was a violinist, composer and conductor....
The Fläming is a historically grown cultural landscape in the border region between Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt,...
The first of Augsburg's magnificent fountains, the Augustusbrunnen, was built between 1588 and 1594. It was...
If you mention the cinnamon star, especially if you do so around Christmas, everyone's eyes are sure to light up. On...
If you visit the wine-growing areas in the south of Styria, you will notice the large windmills everywhere, which not...
In 1857, Cécile Chaminade was born in Paris at the foot of Montmartre. Her mother, a pianist, initially taught the...
The Byzantine Empire immediately conjures up images in our Western European minds: magnificently dressed emperors,...
I probably don't think of any other composer as often as I think of Messiaen in my daily life - at least not with this...
Since the first advanced civilisations, slavery had been an important factor in the social and societal fabric of the...
It is probably the best known and most played march in the world: the Army March II dedicated to Field Marshal Josef...
Michelangelo Buonarroti, the star of the Renaissance, had a real problem with Pope Julius II. The Rovere Pope...
Venice and Florence are certainly among the highlights of a tour of Italy. Both cities grew massively in size, wealth...