Calling on the composer a guide to European composer houses and museums /

Sadie, Julie Anne.

Calling on the composer a guide to European composer houses and museums / Julie Anne Sadie and Stanley Sadie. - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, (c)2005. - 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Heritage and the Composer Museum -- Celebrating Composers -- A Fragile Legacy -- Music on Display -- The Composer Houses and Museums -- By country: maps -- Austria -- The Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) -- Belgium, Netherlands -- Czech Republic -- England, Wales -- France, Swizerland -- Germany -- Hungary, Slovakia -- Italy -- Poland -- Romania, Bulgaria -- Russia -- Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) -- Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Spain -- Ukraine, Belarus -- By composer: A-Z.

Across Europe, more than three hundred houses and museums commemorate the composers that lived and worked in them. In this book, two distinguished musicologists guide the reader and the musically curious traveller to these sites and provide essential information on their content and significance. They also offer practical information for the visitor, seasoned insights and lively commentary.



9780300183948


Composers--Homes and haunts--Europe--Guidebooks.
Music museums--Europe--Guidebooks.


Electronic Books.

ML390 / .C355 2005