Look who’s missing from Walhalla

Look who’s missing from Walhalla

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norman lebrecht

August 07, 2022

Walhalla is a national hall of fame, built east of Regensburg in Bavaria and designed to honour giants of German history – ‘politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue’.

So where are Mendelssohn and Mahler?

Not to mention the Schumanns, Clara and Robert.

It’s a very odd collection that includes Max Reger but omits Franz Kafka.

See here.

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