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On June 27, 1743, the British army, along with forces from the kingdoms of Hanover and Hesse, defeated the French at the battle of Dettingen in...

In November of 1773, festivities were being organized at Versailles for the coming wedding of the Comte d’Artois—the future Charles X—to Marie Thérèse de Savoy. Papillon...


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“In one of the great Towns of Flanders, where he (Handel) has asked Permission to Play, the Organist attended him, not knowing who he was; and...

One doesn’t associate the words “dark” and “disturbing” with one of Sweden’s most important exports, not forgetting Volvo and IKEA. Back in the early 1980s, when...

For a number of years, considerable attention has come to focus on the children of Johann Sebastian Bach, but more recently, the light has begun to...

While still a law student at the University of Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758) composed an orchestral suite and passed it off as one of Telemann’s...


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Christopher Williams gave this video a mixed review when it first came out on DVD (see 31:2), largely because he found that the production lacked the...