Ainay-le-Vieil fortress in the snow

Ainay-le-Vieil fortress in the snow

From the recent archives of Ainay-le-Vieil, this view of the fortress covered in a thick layer of freshly fallen snow. Such a sight is rare at Ainay-le-Vieil. Indeed, just as the heavy white blanket seems to have settled in for...
Adrienn Miksch - soprano - "72 Hours of August

Adrienn Miksch - soprano - "72 Hours of August

Adrienn Miksch Graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music with the title of "Master of Music, singing and teaching option", Adrienn Miksch immediately joined the Opera Studio of the Hungarian National Opera. Adrienn Miksch has received several awards and...
Artur Rozmysłowicz - viola - "72 Hours of August

Artur Rozmysłowicz - viola - "72 Hours of August

Artur Rozmysłowicz Artur Rozmysłowicz is resident soloist with the NFM Symphony Orchestra (National Forum of Music in Vratislavia). He has taken part in numerous master classes in Łańcut (Poland), Pueblo (Mexico), London, Ottawa (Canada) and Książ château . He...
Jules-Émile-Frédéric Massenet

Jules-Émile-Frédéric Massenet

Jules-Émile-Frédéric Massenet was born in Montaud on May 12, 1842, and died in Paris on August 13, 1912. He was six when his family moved to Paris in 1848. He entered the Conservatoire at the age of eleven. He studied piano with Adolphe Laurent, and won a first prize...
Frédéric François Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin was born in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, Poland, and died in 1849 in Paris. Having trained at the Warsaw Conservatory and begun his career in Poland and Vienna, Chopin settled in France, in the heart of the...
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Felix Mendelssohn Born in Hamburg in 1809 and died in Leipzig on November 4, 1847. His family had become a renowned intellectual and artistic hotbed, frequented by Hegel and his first music teacher, Zelter. Noticed at an early age, notably by Goethe, Felix...
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) A composer of the Baroque era, whose apogee he symbolizes and personifies, Johann Sebastian Bach had a major and lasting influence on the development of Western music. The greatest composers, such as...
Cristina Ortiz - piano - "72 Hours of August

Cristina Ortiz - piano - "72 Hours of August

Cristina Ortiz lives in the UK. However, British phlegm has not altered her passion, spontaneity and attitude, so typical of her Brazilian origins, which influence her musical interpretation. An international artist, Cristina...
Report on the Salon des Curiosités 2016

Report on the Salon des Curiosités 2016

The 9th Salon des Curiosités (July 2 and 3, 2016) has just closed its doors Nearly 1,100 visitors paced the 35 stands set up in the château courtyard and outbuildings. They had the opportunity to discover silverware, earthenware, antique watches and clocks,...