“Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.” – Frederic Chopin Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday...

  MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE CHRISTMAS MARKET OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA! “The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other c...

“I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants...

“Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.” - Frederic Chopin Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tu...

“Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.” - Frédéric Chopin   The Vienna New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert de...

“We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in po...

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” - Norman Cousins   Johann Heinrich Sc...

“The clarinet is an incredible instrument. It’s a great, expressive instrument.” - Anat Cohen   Joseph Leopold Eybler (February 8, 176...

“A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.” - Herodotus   Antonio Sal...

“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.” - Friedrich Nietzsche   Richard Gerstl (...

“Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.” - Niki Lauda Johann Baptist Wanhal (May 12, 1739 – August 20, 1813), also spelled Waṅhal (th...

“Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the...

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” - Khalil Gibran   Heinrich Ignaz...

“The violin sings.” - Joshua Bell Ignazio Albertini was born, probably in Milan, around 1644. The first preserved document that mentio...

“Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson The eccentric and playfully self-advertising Viennese artist k...

“If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739 - 1799) was an Austrian composer, vio...