Czech Music Encore: Turning music into gold - alchemy in the court of Rudolph II

18-02-2007 | Patricia Goodson, David Vaughan

You wouldn't usually associate music with mysterious arts of the alchemist, but in Prague, at the beginning of the 17th century, just about anything was possible. In Encore today, we look at "alchemical" music - or to be more precise, music composed by an alchemist.

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