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...
If you mention the cinnamon star, especially if you do so around Christmas, everyone's eyes are sure to light up. On...
In 1857, Cécile Chaminade was born in Paris at the foot of Montmartre. Her mother, a pianist, initially taught the...
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...
Maurice Ravel composed his Bolero in 1928 for the dancer Ida Rubinstein. Throughout his life, he was to have a very...
Despite all the contrasts in our modern world and despite all the differences between the cultures and regions of this...
Already in the early Middle Ages, a monastery was founded in Hirsau in the northern Black Forest, which housed the...
24 May 1192: Styria becomes part of Austria. On 17 August 1186 the Georgenberg Handfeste was concluded on the...
The flower island of Mainau is one of the most visited attractions on Lake Constance. There are very few travel groups...
The largest island of Lake Constance is located between Constance and Radolfzell and is connected to the mainland by...
Who never ate his bread with tears, He who never spent his sorrowful nights Sat on his bed weeping, He knows you not,...
Daniel Dorff is an American composer. He was born in 1956 in New Rochelle/New York and studied at Cornell University...
Imagine the following: You are still sitting slightly sleepy and unsuspecting at your morning coffee. Suddenly your...