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Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Thirty Years War Wallenstein festival in the Czech republic. Held every two years so enough tinme to prepare.
Valdštejn festivities 2026 are already in the past. We thank everyone who were not discouraged by the weather and enjoyed it with us. And we thank all those who participated in their preparations and during the course! We had a blast!
We look forward to seeing you again in 2028 
video: StoryMages
Battle of Rocroi
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The Battle of Rocroi, fought on 19 May 1643, was a major engagement of the Thirty Years' War between a French army, led by the 21-year-old Duke of Enghien (later known as the Great Condé) and Spanish forces under General Francisco de Melo only five days after the accession of Louis XIV to the throne of France after his father's death. Rocroi shattered the myth of invincibility of the Spanish tercios, the pike and shot infantry units that had dominated European battlefields for the previous 120 years. The battle is therefore often considered to mark the end of Spanish military greatness and the beginning of French hegemony in Europe in the second half-17th century during the reign of Louis XIV.[6] After Rocroi, the Spanish progressively transformed the tercio system incorporating more of the line infantry doctrine used by the French over time.[7][6]
Monday, 18 May 2026
La Maison militaire du Roi
'Ce soir nous vous présentons le groupe de la Maison Militaire du Roi présent aux Heures Historiques de Sully-sur-Loire'
Friedrich II "Der Grosse"* – Flötenkonzerte Und Sinfonien
1985.
Although King Frederick only composed sporadically in his later years—almost his entire life’s work dates from before the Seven Years’ War in 1756, which brought Prussia and its ruler to the verge of ruin—the flute, and flute-playing, remained his loyal companions to his dying days. As late as 1770 the famous soprano Elisabeth Mara acclaimed his ‘strong, full tone and great proficiency’. And the well-travelled English music historian Charles Burney explicitly praised Frederick’s skills: ‘His playing was superior, in many respects, to anything I had heard from amateur or indeed professional flute-players.’ His own compositions, which he performed in small private concerts, were highly valued for their quality, although Frederick would have been well aware that in Quantz, Graun, C.P.E. Bach and other musicians in his court orchestra he had assembled a group of outstanding performers who would breathe new life into the musical life of Berlin and Potsdam in the middle of the 18th century and would have far-reaching effects as the fine arts moved towards a new cultural aesthetic of sensibility, ultimately ushering in the era of Sturm und Drang.
– Detlef Giese
English translation: Saul Lipetz
Recordings by Frederick II King of Prussia | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos
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