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[26] [27] [28] Museums with his work on display, include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museo del Violino in Cremona and the Royal Academy of Music Museum in London. However, there are a few performers who have played with Nicola instruments, Thomas Bowes plays a Nicola Amati violin, [ 29 ] and Chi-chi Nwanoku (OBE) plays an Amati ...
A number of Andrea Amati's instruments survived for some time, dating between 1538 (Amati made the first Cello called "The King" in 1538) and 1574. The largest number of these are from 1560, a set for an entire orchestra of 38 ordered by Catherine de Médicis the regent queen of France and bore hand painted royal French decorations in gold ...
In 1948, when the communist party took power in Czechoslovakia, the production of music instruments was nationalized and unified into a single Luby-based company called Cremona (part of Československé hudební nástroje in 1965–1992) that had been in existence since 1920. All manufactures and small workshops were part of this company.
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The municipality of Karlsdorf-Neuthard was formed by a voluntary merger of the villages of Karlsdorf and Neuthard on January 1, 1975.. Karlsdorf was founded in 1813, when Dettenheim residents, who frequently experienced floods from the river Rhine, resettled on approval of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden within the confines of Altenbürg.
During World War II, Germany operated a forced labour subcamp of the Nazi prison in the town in Zwickau, [3] and a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. [4] About 1,000 prisoners, half of whom were deported from German-occupied Poland , a quarter from the Soviet Union , and larger groups among the remainder comprising French, Italian ...
Nicolaus Copernicus first visited the town at the turn of 1495 and 1496, and then lived at the castle from 1503. [3] It is believed he wrote part of his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium there. In the winter of 1703–04 the town was the residence of King Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War .
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms of Albershausen is: In silver the green capital letter A, including a linkshin lying green tulip. The arms of Albershausen is the only letter of Arms in the district of Göppingen.