Germany

Wolfgang Wagner gives blessing to two-daughter succession

Wolfgang Wagner Bayreuth, Germany  - Aging Bayreuth opera festival chief Wolfgang Wagner has

Lost Bach composition for organ discovered in Germany

Halle, Germany  - A lost musical composition by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) has been discovered in a treasure trove of manuscripts in Germany, the University of Halle said Tuesday.

The piece, which would take 5 to 7 minutes to play, was a "fantasy" or variation on an old German choral melody titled, Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns haelt, the university said.

Two musicologists discovered it in the 19th century papers of the editor of the first complete works of Bach, Wilhelm Rust (1822-1892). The Halle university library purchased his papers several weeks ago.

Baroque composer Bach is one of the greatest authors of organ music ever.

The fantasy had been thought lost, with only the first five bars known.

Teenage would-be cannibal ordered into psychiatric care

Cottbus, Germany  - A would-be teenage cannibal was ordered into closed psychiatric care in Germany Tuesday after he tried to sink his teeth into a nurse's neck and eat part of her.

Key German indicator records surprise fall

EconomyBerlin  - German investor confidence recorded a surprise fall in April, a key indicator rel

European car sales slump in March

Berlin  - New European passenger car registrations slumped by 9.5 per cent in March, data released Tuesday showed, as rising oil prices and growing economic uncertainty kept consumers away from car

Criticism after boy is lost in German rowing-skiff accident

Leipzig, Germany - Organizers of a rowing regatta in Germany came under fire Monday after five children in a racing skiff were washed over a weir in the eastern German city of Leipzig and a 12- yea

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