Paintings, musical instruments and pictures with musical content
Dulwich, Burghley House, Mauritshuis, Fitzwilliam, Vleeshuis, Ca’Rezzonico are European destination galleries or museums housing important paintings, musical instruments and pictures with musical content. Many are known only to connoisseurs and local communities.This lecture will explore them and bring us face to face with some of the world’s treasures.
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Booking is not required.
Peter Medhurst
Peter Medhurst is a musician, scholar and travel guide with a long career giving recitals and illustrated lectures. At the Royal College of Music and the in Salzburg he studied singing and keyboard instruments. As a travel guide, he has introduced groups to the birthplaces and cultural milieu of classical composers and artists across the world.
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