The autograph manuscript of the fourth movement of Beethoven’s string quartet in B flat major, Opus 130, has been acquired by the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. It has been rpivately owned and inaccessible for decades.
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Makcim Fernandez Samodaiev, solo cellist of the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania, has reached breaking ppoint after two fruitless years of labour negotiations. He tells Slippedisc: Today, during the negotiations for the Collective Labor Agreement, […]
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