Cologne’s chamber music tradition
Cologne was the capital of the Rhineland province of Prussia, with the much smaller Bonn and Düsseldorf not far away. In 1856 it had a population of 100,000 and was Prussia’s third largest city after Berlin and Breslau, while Bonn and Düsseldorf had populations of 20,000 and 40,000, respectively. Instead of a Königliche Kapelle, there … Read more