buildings, churches and museums in the city centre. Classical music and opera are popular in Vienna. The composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven ...
In 1878 a young Manhattan patrician named Templeton Strong turned down a proffered job with the swanky law firm of Strong and Cadwalader (now Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), tucked an oboe ...
In the late 1880s, she was studying music in Leipzig ... For 19th-century composer and pianist Carl Czerny, however, that is far too few. The Austrian lived with as many as SEVEN cats at a time and ...
This course introduces you to the literature and culture of the Romantic period in Britain, 1790-1830. It allows you to explore a wide variety of literature from a period characterised by radical ...
Arguably the vocal tradition became British music's glory, boosted by the arrival of Handel as a London resident in 1710. For the next 35 years he generated booms in opera, choral and instrumental ...