The Legend of the Amber Room - Michael Geisler - Set of Clarinets
1. The Legend
Amber Room
( Michael Geisler )
Symphonic Poem
In the Berlin City Palace in 1701 a room was constructed with walls decorated with
amber, at the command of the first Prussian King, Friedrich I. In 1716 Friedrich gave
the room to the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, who displayed it in the Catharina
Palace in St Petersburg. During the Second World War it was looted by the
Germans and brought to Konigsberg. Since then the Amber Room has vanished
from the face of the earth, and there are many speculations and theories over what
may have happened to it…
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