The Berlin Philharmonic has put out a terse statement of change to this week’s schedule: ‘It is with great regret that for health reasons Zubin Mehta has been forced to cancel the concerts from 20 […]
The venerable Wilhelm Brückner, who built some 350 violins, violas and cellos over seven decades, has died in Erfurt, Thuringia, aged 92. He made his first instrument at 15. The family tradition continues through his […]
Best known for his opera Der Vampyr (he was a leading composer in the period between Weber and Wagner), Heinrich August Marschner (1795-1861). He was well travelled though Europe before he arrived in Dresden by […]