Back in the 1500s and 1600s, you couldn't just use your Eurailpass to hop on a train from one country in Europe to another.
Yet a surprising number of the composers of the time managed to get around, bringing Italian styles to Germany, Flemish music to Venice, and so forth, and the resulting cross fertilization is one of the hallmarks of the Renaissance and early Baroque. We'll look at some of this mixture this week with music of the continent in the mid-millennium.
Mozart's Attic Thursday June 15th at 10:00 PM
