 | Culture of Central Europe and Beyond |  | | | | | | | | Artistic Styles - Architecture | | | | | | |  | | Every valley, and there are ''zillions'' of long and deep valleys traversing Central Europe, is characterised by distinct architectures: farm buildings, churches, castles, bourgeois town houses, etc. From
the full spectrum of art styles invigorates us. You will see the architectures of most of these styles on our 7 weekend and week-long excursions. | | | | | | | | | Painting and Sculpture | | | | | | | Painting and sculpture is likewise characterised by the artistic styles listed above - but, apart from naive art, usually transcends geographical regions. You will see paintings and sculptures on our weekend and week-long excursions - in museums and on town squares. | | | | | | | | | | Music | | | | | | | Europe has been a cradle of musical geniusses since the medieval times. From
| Claudio Monteverdi, | Clara and Robert Schumann, | | Arcangelo Corelli, | Franz Liszt, | | Henry Purcell, | Giuseppe Verdi, | | Alessandro Scarlatti, | Bedrich Smetana, | | Antonio Vivaldi, | Anton Bruckner, to | | Georg Philip Telemann, | Johannes Brahms, | | Jean-Philippe Rameau, | Camille Saint-Saens, | | Johannes Sebastian Bach, via | Georges Bizet, | | Joseph Haydn, | Modest Mussorgsky, | | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, | | Ludwig van Beethoven, | Antonin Dvorak, | | Carl Maria von Weber, | Edvard Grieg, | | Gioacchino Rossini, | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | | Franz Schubert, | Gustav Mahler, | | Gaetano Donizetti, | Giacomo Puccini, | | Hector Berlioz, | Gustav Mahler, | | Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdy and | Arnold Schönberg | | Frederic Chopin, | Max Bruch (Vienna), etc. |
A great inspired wealth of composers have left to us music that is played everyday, all over the world. You will be able to hear much of this music at concerts in the Linzer Bruckner Halle -
» reachable by a simple bus ride in less than 30 minutes from Hagenberg. | | | | | | | | | | Opera | | | | | | | » Europe has given the world great opera composers such as » Their operas are performed every evening several times daily across the globe: In the Far East, Australia and New Zealand, in North and South America, and in Europe.
» You will be able to see and hear many of these operas in the Linzer Opera Theatre - reachable by a simple bus ride in less than 35 minutes from Hagenberg.
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