BACK IN BUSINESS (AGAIN)

Good intentions are made to be broken. Not that it would matter for my future schemes. And still. About a year ago I promised to blog again more frequently – I stopped posting new stuff regularly a couple of years earlier – and of course I didn’t manage. But I still hope I will succeed …

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A Waltz from 1760?

For a while now, I’ve been busy with the birth of the waltz. It is generally accepted that the waltz came into being around 1750 somewhere in the German cultural room. I use that vague notion intentionally here. Around 1750 the current nation states didn’t exist and with the Seven Years War about to begin, …

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