December 4 - 8 2008
January 7 - 12
April 29 - May 5
April 30 - May 4
May 20 - 24
May 28 - June 2
June 10 - 15
June 17 - 22 - 28
August 29 - September 6
September 23 - 27
October 2 - 7
Tour Leaders
Robert Avery, who accompanies all these tours (except the first part of the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival), founded Habsburg Heritage Cultural Tours in 1989. He read Modern History at Cambridge and then devoted twenty years to the Anglo-Austrian Society, pioneering cultural tours and helping to run the Youth and Music Festival in
Vienna. He was editorial consultant to the Eyewitness Travel Guide to Vienna. He was awarded the Silver Haydn Medal of the City of Eisenstadt. When not leading tours he can usually be found at the opera.
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Michael Kennedy, who will introduce the Budapest Ring, has worked for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph since 1941 and in 2005 retired as chief music critic of the Sunday Telegraph. Among his many books are the Oxford Dictionary of Music and three books about Richard Strauss, his 1999 biography Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma (CUP) being regarded as the standard work on Strauss's life and works. For his services to music, he was appointed OBE in 1981 and CBE in 1997. In 2003 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Manchester University.
Richard Wigmore, who accompanies the first part of the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival, is a writer and broadcaster on musical performance of the classical period. He will introduce the concerts. He read French and German at Cambridge and and gives classes in the history of the Lied at Birkbeck College, London University. His translations of all the Schubert songs were used in the recent Hyperion complete recordings, and he is writing a book on Haydn which will be published by Faber early in the anniversary year 2009.
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