Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Museum
Composer's summer home in a Saxon winegrower's house, where much of Der Freischütz was written.
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This guide to the Carl Maria von Weber Museum in Dresden-Hosterwitz goes back to the spring of 1818, when the composer and his wife Caroline came across a winegrower's house on a walk and decided to rent it. It follows the odd pairing of a court music director and a vintner's farmhouse, the friends who came out from the city to find him, and the operas that took shape upstairs. Best heard from the road, facing the gabled front.
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