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wienguide · 2 months

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Explore the beautiful place in Salzburg, Vienna!! A private tour from Vienna Salzburg offers the best guide in the heart of the city. Overview the natural beauty by clicking magnificent photos of the lake, palaces, taste of food, and many more. +436604466045

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biserarose · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

COOPTOURIST – enterprise for home and international tourism at the Central Cooperative Union in Bulgaria. Sofia, 13 Paris St., tel. 87-09-47. Telex 433. Organizes summer holidays and excursions in the country and abroad for members of cooperatives from all countries. It has at its disposal excellent camp sites for motorists on the Black Sea coast.

Union of Bulgarian Journalists, Sofia, 4 Graf Ignatiev St., tel. 87-32-27. As representative of the International Organization of Journalists, it administers the International Journalists’ House near Varna, close to the Zlatni Pyassatsi ‘.resort. Tel. 6-51-18.

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Balkan Bulgarian Airlines offer regular flights to and from: Algiers, Amsterdam, Athens, Baghdad, Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Warsaw, Vienna, Damascus, Istanbul, Casablanca, Cairo, Copenhagen, London, Moscow, Nicosia, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, Tunis, Frankfurt on Main, Khartoum and Zurich. The company has business contacts with the foreign airlines Aeroflot private tours bulgaria, AUA (Austria), BEA (Great Britain), JAT (Yugoslavia), LOT (Poland), Interflug (GDR), Lufthansa (GFR), MALEV (Hungary), TAROM (Romania), CSA (Czechoslovakia), Air France (France) and SAS (Scandinavian Airlines). During the holiday season there are direct charter flights between the Black Sea resorts and almost all big cities and capitals of Europe and the Near East.f

Those who prefer rail transport also have a wide choice of express trains, maintaining regular links between Bulgaria and the rest of Europe. Among these are: Orient-Express: London- Paris-Lausanne-Milan-Trieste-Zagreb-Belgrade-Sofia-Istanbul; Istanbul Express: Munich-Salzburg-Zagreb-Belgrade-Sofia-

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Nord-Orient Express (from June to September): Varna- Bourgas-Budapest-Prague-Warsaw; Bulgaria Express: Sofia- Bucharest-Ungeni-Kishinev-Moscow ( from May to October); Carpathian Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Lvov-Przemisl-Warsaw; Sofia-Koulata-Salonica-Athens.

Certain long-distance coach routes passing through Bulgaria, can also be used: Kiev-Vama, London-Sofia-Bombay, Brussels-Munich-Sofia-Istanbul, Milan-Belgrade-Sofia-Istanbul, Munich- Sofia-Beirut, Athens-Sofia, Belgrade-Nis-Sofia, Ohrid- Skopie-Sofia.

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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heartmylifes · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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vasilkaworld · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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historyhologram · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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mirelasite · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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ladykazanlak · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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birdbeaty · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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mirelaistanbul · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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guidevasilka · 2 years

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COOPTOURIST

RILA International Rail Transport Bureau, Sofia, 5 Gurko St., tel. 87-07-77.

International Bus Lines Bureau, Sofia, 42 Hristo Mihailov St., tel. 52-50-04.

HOW TO GET TO BULGARIA

Istanbul; Danube Express: Sofia-Bucharest-Kishinev-Kiev-Moscow; Polonia Express: Warsaw-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul; Pannonia Express: Sofia-Belgrade-Budapest-Prague-Berlin;

Motorists can reach Sofia most coveniently along the E-5N International Highway (London-Culcutta), along the E-20 Highway (Moscow-Salonica- Sofia) and the E-95 Highway (Constanta-Varna-Bourgas).

#COOPTOURIST

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septembergold · 3 years

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Partial first movement of Piano Sonata No. 11 performed by Ingrid Haebler with images from Germany 1938-39.

Ingrid Haebler (born 20 June 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian pianist. She studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Vienna Music Academy, Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and privately in Paris with Marguerite Long. She toured worldwide. She is best known for a series of recordings from the 1950s to 1980s. Her complete set of Mozart's piano sonatas for the Denon label is still regarded as among the finest sets. Haebler also recorded all of Mozart's piano concertos (most of them twice), often with her own cadenzas - and all of Schubert's sonatas. She was one of several Austrian musicians to experiment early with period instruments, having recorded the music of Johann Christian Bach on a fortepiano. Her recordings of Mozart and Beethoven with the violinist Henryk Szeryng are particularly prized. (Wikipedia)

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wienguide · 4 months

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schroedingersk8 · 4 years

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First of all I want to thank you for this beautiful and interesting blog you have. I can imagine you have many requests for dating you. How do you know which one is sincere with you and worthy?

Answering as Miss K8 Morgan, of K8Morgan.com

Hello, and thank you very much for reading and enjoying this interesting blog of mine! :) And my Twitter, too! And thank you for giving me this opportunity to #dommesplain a few things to my kind followers and readers…

But back to your question, out of the many requests for dating that I get, how do I know which one is sincere with me and worthy?

Well, it is a good question, but I would expand the categories in it further. How do I know those requests are

sincere,

realistic,

acceptable, and

worthy.

For better understanding of the selection process, let’s take a closer look at each category individually, and examine them in detail, shall we?

1. Sincerity

I have this saying, “no one is more sincere than a man firm in his delusions.” This is ever-so-applicable to each and every stranger from the Internet who has ever written to me with an inquiry to date me… And even to some guys making such inquiries after meeting me a few times, here and there. What can I say, I believe that all of them are most sincere in their desires to date me, or someone like me, or the “me” they imagine – and even more sincere in using their offer to date me as a means to avoid paying my session or social fees. Sincerity is not a problem here, Delusion – or lack of realism – is!

2. Realism

So how do I know when somebody is being realistic? I suppose in the same way you, or anyone else would know. It just requires some common sense. For example, no realistic message has ever started with, or included, the following:

“Hello, Mistress, I am a real no-limits slave. I will do anything you want [except booking a session and actually paying me for my time] but I think pro dommes only do things for money, but I am looking for someone to dominate me for free as part of a FemaleLed relationship” To this particular kind of drivel you can also add things like “…but I am still a virgin”, “…but I am still married” “…but I have never seen a Mistress before” and a plethora of similar verbal identifiers.

“… I have an excellent life, career and social circle here in the [insert any US city] and am able to provide you with a life in which you wouldn’t have to work.” This particular statement is more common than you think, and is ALWAYS US-based. Somehow they seem to believe that we, here in Europe, suffer greatly from our free health care, non-GM, locally grown wholesome food, the quaint culture and history of our countries, the public transport and rights to privacy protection. And it implies that because the author of it is so “overwhelmingly generous” – with his words – I am going to drop everything: my job, my family, my life, my friends, sell my cats to the Circus, and move to the US, to be his…mail-order pet-bride??? Someone with no job, no independence, no voting rights and with a precarious immigration status. To be bored to injuries, until death do us part? NO THANKS!

“…I am not rich and do not have a fancy car, a palace for a house and travelling for me more often includes a backpack and a tent – I appreciate simple things in life…” Say no more, bro! I, myself, appreciate finer things in life, the finer the better, and the only way you would see me with a backpack in a national park is if some psycho has killed me, stuffed me into that backpack and is carrying me to bury me in a shallow grave there. I like fancy cars, I like rare timepieces, I enjoy luxury travel, fine dining, fine wine, fine arts… As a matter of fact, I unapologetically love all things fanciful and complicated, and am not looking to change that any time soon.

“…and I probably do not make enough to have you as a GF, but I thought I’d try anyway.” Mate, I wish you didn’t. I hear your pain, I myself do not have enough to buy me a Lamborghini Aventador S. Not even a stinky Murcielago… And every morning I wake up, and I come to terms with this harsh, cruel, unfair reality. But never once have I written to a dealership to try to get one anyway! Luckily, you can still book a session to enjoy me for a limited amount of time, and I can still go to the dealership and stare to my heart’s delight…

“…I do not believe in having to pay to date…” What are you doing writing to me, then??? You might as well try and tell me that you believe Jesus loves me, and that Earth is flat… Keep your beliefs to yourself, mate, no one here has asked to hear them – or I swear to Jesus that loves me I will bring out my pie chart again!

These are some of the most common examples of my dating wannabes, but that list is truly endless and ever-growing. But what would, then, a realistic approach entail? I would say a situational self-evaluation study: what you do, where you live, how much free time and disposable income you have, how much of it are you willing to spend on dating, if we live in different cities how often can you travel, and how often you’d need me to travel, what you’d ideally like to achieve with this relationship, when you’d like it to start, and whether you prefer it as a permanent or a fixed term contract. There, no rocket science, is it?

3. Acceptability

But what, then, would be the acceptable terms for me to favorably consider an offer? I think the main factors would have to be:

geographical compatibility,

time strain, and

relationship goals.

It is not a secret that I am in my mid-30es, so I am old, lazy, and by now I have visited most places I had an interest in. I no longer get excited about having to take a trans-Atlantic flight to see someone for a date because “we are going to see DisneyWorld!!!!!”. I stopped being excited about it some…20 years ago.

There are only two places in the US I am interested in, one is New England – in autumn or in winter, and another is Portland, OR in spring/summer. Part of my education took place in New England (I do not specify where for privacy reasons, so do not ask), and I have spent some time in Oregon in later years, too, both those are two places very dear to my heart. The rest of the US: seen, done, not much interest to revisit. And very little interest to return to live in the US at this point in my life.

Same goes for SE Asia and Middle East. Would consider visiting, would not consider moving. Would not consider having to take 4 connecting flights to reach the final destination. Would not consider getting stoned to death for being your house guest.

If frequent travel is required on my part, then it will have to be somewhere within a 3hr flight radius from Paris. I do have my pet peeve places, i.e. London. If you are someone who has tried to get me to come to London for a tour before, you’d be familiar with my “not enough money in the world to make me suffer through that indignity!” rant. I have lived there for too long, as one can tell, and I only visit when I absolutely must, as in, for legal obligations, deaths or weddings. I am somewhat more ok with Edinburgh.

I do have my “preferred” list, too! This year it features Stockholm (love that northern gem and the Swedish boys!), Zurich, Frankfurt, Vienna, Salzburg, Paris and most of France (once the strikes are over!), and I would love to discover Tunisia, Morocco and Israel (as I have heard very good things), but I am open to suggestions as long as there are direct flights.

As for time restraints, then really anything above cumulative 2 weeks per month is unreasonable. I want my space, and I want my time. You should want yours! If you want to have an overly-attached live-in GF – look elsewhere. I am all for fun and intense time together inter-twinned with time dedicated solely to work. A “weekend relationship” would work very well for me, for example.

And when it comes to relationship goals, I understand that these change with time. And I think a relationship with me would be good for someone single, successful and busy with his own professional life, who wants to enjoy some time with kinky stimulating company without having to buy into societal pre-sets. However, if the end goal is to get married and have 3 kids – once again, I am not the Droid you are looking for.

I would say I am an ideal life companion for a social renegade and adventurer whose end goal is the same as his intermediate aspirations – joy, stimulating fun and absolution from boredom and trivia. I will be wasted on others…

4. Worthiness of the Offer.

And how, then, do I decide if the offer is worth it? Well, this subject is reminiscent of my earlier post, 15. Let Me Draw You A Pie Chart, and the arising Mathematical solutions. As with any relationship, I expect to be better off with it than without it. The offer will have to consider the amount of travel necessary, the cost of it, and the cost of my time. But overall, I would say, for a successful candidate with an interesting offer, the cost of weekend-dating me, per month, for 3 weekends, one of them long, would more or less be the cost of booking a long weekend Private Tour with me at my work rate. Which may seem like a steal and it is certainly a bargain in relative terms, but it is an eye-watering amount of money, for most people, and it is definitely not available to just anyone.

As the matters stand, tomorrow will be the first time in a year that I have agreed to hear out an offer from an existing client, and I do not know whether or not we will be able to reach a consensus on terms. Alas, such is #DommeLife

No one, under the penalty of the EU copyright laws, is allowed to use or reproduce my blog or individual posts, or even passages, in any way, shape or form, be it for Netflix series, Amazon books, or anything of the kind, regardless of the credit given. If you have any questions, you may contact me via K8Morgan.com

#dommesplaining #dommelife

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prettylittlelyres · 5 years

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Violins and Violets - Second Draft - COMPLETE!

Beta Readers Wanted!

Salzburg, 1785: A musical prodigy has spent her life on the road, touring the courts of Europe with her brother. When her father forbids her to compose, she disguises herself as a man and seeks work at an opera house in Prague… but she can’t stay undercover forever, and it’s only the intervention of a beautiful singer that keeps her from ruin and ridicule.

I finished writing the second draft of Violins and Violets - today, the 13th January 2019 at 19:02 - with 71,629 words across 19 chapters!

I’m so pleased with myself, and I’m really excited to move onto other projects... probably redrafts of Violins and Violets and Curls of Smoke... but also explorations of the other characters’ stories.

But for the moment, I’m seeking beta readers for this draft!

Thank you so much to the wonderful people who’ve beta-read for me already - @thirddraftproblems and @ay-zai-uh-writeblr - your feedback’s helped enormously, and I can’t thank you enough!

If anyone’s interested in beta-reading a historical romance about Sapphic musicians in 18th/19th century Salzburg and Prague, please let me know! I’m putting excerpts from each chapter below the cut, so you can see if it’s the sort of story you’d like to read!

Chapter One “Do you really feel she will be better suited as a housewife than as a concert musician?" asked my mother, "After you have raised her to hope she will be as famous as her brother is? After you have raised her to spend her life travelling, to spend her life on the road, without the prospect of a single fixed home? How is she meant to adapt to the future you are now laying out for her?” “I don’t know, Julia,” said Father, “But it’s the only future she has, and the only one she can expect. She has as much chance on the European stage as you do. A woman can’t compose. What kind of father would I be if I set her up for failure, for ridicule from every corner of the musical world? Do trust me, Julia. I know what’s best for her, and for this family. Hans must seek fame, and Katharina must seek a husband.”

Chapter Two I opened the curtain covering the window closest to me, and settled back into my seat. As the stagecoach rolled through Linz, and then north to Bohemia, I watched the clouds skidding across the sky, and wondered what the weather was like in Salzburg. Had my parents realised yet that I was gone? Had they left me to sleep in, thinking the previous day had broken me? Had there been a search of the house? Was there now a search of the city? Or had Father insisted they simply carry on without me? One less mouth to feed. One less child to worry about. Had he realised my plan, and hired a private carriage to race to Prague and catch me there? I shook my head. I could do nothing now. One day I would write to them, and explain myself. But not before I had reached Prague, not before I had settled there, and not before I had found work. Hans, I would tell, but not Mother, and not Father. Not yet.

Chapter Three “I'd like to enquire about a position in the pit orchestra. Are there any openings?” The conductor sniffed. “There is certainly the budget. As to whether there is room for…” He reached into his breast pocket, donned a pair of spectacles, and peered at me again. “You seem dreadfully young. What training have you had? Or have you come here, having been rejected from the Conservatory?” He raised an eyebrow. “I hope you don’t expect us to take you on if that’s the case. We don’t take chances on upstart throwaways.” I shook my head. “No, Sir… and not so, Sir. If you please, I have spent my entire childhood performing for the courts of Europe, and now I wish to take up a position in an orchestra. It's a more secure profession, Sir. I'm sure you appreciate—” “Of course. What’s your name?”

Chapter Four Fräulein Fialová and I came to greater acquaintance over my first year in Prague. She taught me Czech, and, when the lead soprano left Malá Strana to marry, Herr Benes and I pushed Herr Filipek and Herr Janda to appoint Fräulein Fialová in her place. With joy, I watched her take to the centre of the stage and pour every drop of her soul into performing, dark eyes glittering in the bright light of the stage torches. Every evening, hundreds of people watched, enraptured, as her chin tilted up and her voice soared to the highest, as a woman showed what it meant to be a true artist, to devote herself so completely to her music that it was all she did. I would have liked to invite her to dinner. I would have loved to sing with her. But, of course, I could do neither without revealing my secret, and putting her in the impossible position of keeping it. Instead, I poured my longing for her companionship into my music, writing adagio after allegretto after symphony after concerto with her in the front of my mind. I sold many of my scores to publishers, including those I had recovered upon my arrival in Prague, but never the ones I wrote for her. Those, I placed in a leather case, and that, I hid in a drawer in my parlour.

Chapter Five Herr Havelka stood in the middle of the stage, two sheets of cream-coloured paper pinched between the forefinger and thumb of his right hand. “You have been deceived!” he shouted, casting his left index finger over the orchestra, and the various members of the cast that had settled in the auditorium while they waited for the rehearsal proper to begin. I squinted. Those papers… They were not blank, as I had thought them earlier that morning. They were laden with the black ink and scrawling handwriting my brother favoured. Immediately the cravat around my chest began to cut into me even more painfully than usual. “Herr Havelka, Sir, I beg you—” “No!” Herr Havelka screamed, hurling the pages to the floor and kicking them into the orchestra pit. He jumped off the stage after them, and marched towards me, thrusting a sharp finger into my face so that I had to step backwards. “You have lied to everyone!” He put on a terrible German accent, clearly meant to imitate my own, and pranced on the spot, skipping like a child as he mimicked me. ““Ach, hallo, ich bin Herr Sebastien Schmidt from Vienna!”” He scoffed. “Disgusting!”

Chapter Six "I think I’d like to conduct as a woman… as myself.” “Surely you don't mean as Fräulein Schmidt?” She frowned. “I’ve just realised I don't know your true name. I'm so sorry. What would you like me to call you?” “My Christian name is Katharina,” I replied, “But my family calls me Käthe.” I smiled. “Not that anyone’s said it out loud for years. You don’t have to call me Katharina, if you’d feel more comfortable calling me Fräulein Schmidt… or even Herr Schmidt. I won’t mind—” “Oh, but Käthe is such a beautiful name!” exclaimed Fräulein Fialová, “I can’t imagine the agony you must have felt, hiding it.” She stood up, crossed the room, and hugged me again. “And you should call me Magdalena, no more of this “Fräulein Fialová” business. Fräulein Fialová is my aunt!” She went to her wardrobe, and pulled out a gown of navy velvet. “Here, borrow this one. It will bring out your eyes.”

Chapter Seven “Herr Filipek, if you want me to leave, I will understand,” I said, “But I will not know that unless you tell me so.” “Leave?” Herr Filipek repeated, “Leave? Fräulein Schmidt, I cannot ever ask you to leave again. I don’t think I can even allow you to leave.” Finally he met my eye. “I’m sure I’ll have a hard time stopping you, if you’ve made up your mind to go, but… the truth is… we shall all have a hard time surviving here without you.” “Sir?” He folded his hands on the desk in front of him. “In the short time that has passed since the final curtain, I have had no less than twenty people demand your name and address so that they might send their children to you for music lessons. Nine more have asked how they might commission you as a composer, and several men have asked for your hand in marriage.”

Chapter Eight Magdalena went to stand in the cabin curve, and reached out to touch the figures painted on the inside of the lid. She pointed to the lyrist, and grinned. “She looks like you, with all that lovely dark hair. Do you know if it's supposed to be anyone in particular?” “I don’t,” I replied, “I suppose the artist painted his friends. As to the characters they’re playing here…” I shook my head, and shrugged. “They could be anyone. Greek muses, perhaps.” “Well, then, there's no reason not to see yourself there, playing that little harp.” She smiled, and wafted her hands through the air, nodding frantically. “Now, won’t you play the harpsichord?” I stretched my hands. “Well, I’m sure you’ll know this one,” I said, playing the first few notes of the princess’ aria from “The Sister’s Tale”. Magdalena giggled, then straightened her back and began to sing. She beamed at me. “Now the lovers’ duet!” she said, clapping, “From the third act! You must sing, too. I’m sure you didn’t grow up as you did without learning to sing.”

Chapter Nine We needed something to accompany our voices when we sang, but Magdalena didn’t have a harpsichord, so we had only ever met at my home. This was the first time I had ever visited her, and her home was nothing like my imagination had suggested. Whenever Magdalena had talked about books she had read, I had pictured her sitting, feet curled at her side, in a high-backed armchair where she could rest her head, and prop up her elbows as she read. In my imagination, she had set up her chair on a rug by a wide window, so that she could look out onto the street whenever she wanted. I had thought of flowers perched on little tables, of lace curtains veiling the view of the carriages and people passing below. But her apartment’s windows were curtained in thick velvet, and a chaise longue reclined in a corner lined with floor-to-ceiling bookcases, stuffed with libretti and tomes of fine literature Intricately-tiled floors carried the light flowing in from the windows right through the living room, and, in one corner, there was a white marble fireplace, carved with delicate flowers. On the mantelpiece, there was a framed painting of her aunt. But of course she should have had a tiled floor, and mostly-bare walls. She was an opera singer, and her home needed good acoustics. I looked around the main room, and could almost hear echoes of her beautiful voice darting from one wall to the other, and then back again.

Chapter Ten My hands had stiffened, and my fingers felt like the un-oiled joints of a heavy door, or the cogs of a long-unwound clock. I stretched my hands, and tapped them expectantly against the keys, music at the tips of my fingers… But it wouldn’t come out. I couldn’t play. I searched my mind for a piece that might cheer me up, but none came forward. Music had always flowed from me so readily, whether or not I’d wanted to, but now I felt like a carriage stuck in mud, unmoveable. Sighing heavily, I closed the fallboard, and put my head in my hands as tears burned my eyes. I’d lost Magdalena. Now it seemed I was losing my music, too. I became a statue at my instrument, not even shaking to sob. The whole evening, I sat like that, and the whole night, too. I knew efforts to sleep would prove fruitless, and so I didn’t make them.

Chapter Eleven “My dearest!” Magdalena exclaimed, throwing her arms around me. “How I’ve missed you!” She kissed my cheek. “My goodness… It has been too long. Too long.” She squeezed my hand, and, as I stood, staring at her, she stooped to pick up a bouquet of flowers from the top of her trunk. They were violets, heady in scent and vibrant in colour. They smelled of Magdalena, of her embrace, and if she had not been standing right in front of me, I would have burst into tears. But I just smiled, eyes wet, body craving her arms around it. “They’re beautiful,” I whispered. “They’re for you,” she said, “I thought I should bring something after so long without a letter. The truth is… I didn't want to give you false hope. My aunt started speaking again about a month ago now, but I didn't mention it in my last letter, just in case she stopped again. Soon, she was making so much progress so quickly that I didn't trust myself to write to you again without telling you everything.” She beamed. “I decided to come back and surprise you as soon as I could. Aunt Dorota sent me home with a cake yesterday evening. She baked it herself.” I threw myself into her arms, sobbing against her shoulder. “I can’t believe you’re truly here,” I whispered, “I feel as though I’ve been asleep as long as you’ve been gone…” I pulled away, kissed Magdalena's cheek, and breathed in the scent of the flowers, of her. “Thank you,” I said.

Chapter Twelve I went to the hallway. I checked the letterbox. I opened the envelope on the spot, and read the first few lines. No. Please, God, no. With a frantic claw, I snatched up my skirts and raced upstairs to the apartment. “Magdalena!” I screamed, slamming the door behind me, “Magdalena, he’s ill! So terribly ill!” I thrust the letter into her hands and started throwing clothes into a trunk. “He has a dreadful fever—he can’t even stand—and his stomach sticks out—his chest is covered in spots… Mother says he came back from England in perfect health… and then one morning, missed breakfast… and she went to find him in his room… and… and…” I dropped a set of stays on the bed and sobbed into my hands, shaking my head. “I can’t leave him to that, not without a hand to hold, at least!”

Chapter Thirteen We spent the next few hours searching through every chest in Hansi’s room. There was no music in the trunk he’d brought back from England, but he’d also brought along a tea-chest, with a number of new suits and books given to him by courtiers. In one book, with an oxblood leather cover and thick white pages, there were lines and lines of scribbles, music taken down in black ink. I shrieked with delight, and seized it. “Mother, look!” My mother’s face lit up, and she hugged me. “Oh, Käthe, aren’t you clever?” She turned through the pages of the notebook, stroked Hansi’s writing, and then pressed a kiss to the cover. “You’re both so clever, so, so clever. My wonderful children… You know you have to go back to Prague as soon as you can, don’t you, Katharina? They must miss you so much at the opera house. Your company, your music… your wonderful mind! I’m sure you must have friends there.” “Yes.” I nodded, and smiled sadly. “I have some very dear friends.”

Chapter Fourteen I hooked my fingers through the loop on the knocker, and lifted it, rapping three times. A skinny man in a brown jacket answered. “Yes, may I help you, Madam?” I nodded. “My name’s Katharina Schmidt. I…” I trailed off. Should I—could I—introduce myself as “Herr Schneider’s fiancée” when I didn’t want to be? The man smiled. “Oh, yes, Fräulein Schmidt! Please, do come in.” He ushered me into the house, showing me into the drawing room. “Johann, Katharina is here.” I blinked. I had assumed the man at the door to be the butler or something. A magistrate was rich enough to have a butler. Why would he send someone to answer the door who called him by his first name? Who called me by mine?

Chapter Fifteen However enticing any of these prospects might’ve been alone, they were inseparable from Magdalena’s loss. The bread turned to dust in my mouth as I turned my head, and saw, beside me, not even an empty pillow, but the floorboards, where no bed had been to begin with. I tried to sip water against the dryness of my mouth, but my tongue still felt like sandstone. Mother returned a few minutes later. She took the empty cup away from me and set it down on the table in the corner. Over her arm she carried the ivory-coloured dress she’d worn as a bride, one of faded brocade and brittle-looking lace. I let her dress me first, and then my hair. By the time she’d finished, it was twisted into delicate braids, and laced through with thin, creamy ribbons. The skirt fell in swathes around me, the bodice cinching my waist hard, forcing my back straighter than my own wedding dress had done. In that, I’d wanted to stand straight and tall, proud of my love for Magdalena, and joyous in it, but… this dress… this dress made me want to curl up and blow away like a speck of dust on the wind.

Chapter Sixteen Wilhelm was a quiet man a lot of the time, quite reserved, except when it came to his friendships, and his love for Johann. These he expressed with the brightest fire—as soon as he was sure the front door was closed—and the brightest smile. His laugh rang through the house like church bells across the city, and I could not have hoped for a more dedicated student. Opera after opera, symphony after symphony, he wrote for Johann, and I watched his success with tears of joy in my eyes. His works even played at the Malá Strana Opera House—but then again, of course they did—and Magdalena wrote to me to say how much she loved his work. And this is one of your best friends, Käthe, my love—you’re so lucky to know him, and so wonderfully clever to have taught him all this! Do say you’ll let me write to him! I want him for my friend, too! I couldn’t have stopped her even if I’d wanted to, but how on earth could I ever have wanted to? Everyone needed Wilhelm—or someone like him, but there was no-one like him—in their life. Soon, he had his own of Magdalena’s letters to share in the evenings, and it warmed my heart to see him so happy, just as I could see it warmed Johann’s.

Chapter Seventeen Every winter that passed, every cold he caught, my heart jumped into my throat, and I lived on the edge of a sharp knife until the risk—or the episode, and there were so many of those—passed. The freezing air came again and again every November. But Novembers came and Novembers went, like all the other winter months, and Johann somehow clung on. For twenty-two more years, the three of us lived in that house together. I never did make it to Prague.

Chapter Eighteen Gathering my heavy skirt into clenched fists, I strode back up to my room, making no eye-contact, and locking the door behind me as soon as I was inside. I leaned on my bedposts, still dizzy from the heat, still trying to lean away from the ringing in my ears. My room wasn’t small, but the walls were looming towards me, threatening to suffocate me, or crush me. I clenched my fists around the turned wood of the bed frame, and forced myself to breathe deeply. Things weren’t as dreadful as they seemed. This cramped room, this noisy hotel… they were only steps on a journey back to Prague, back to Magdalena. But I wanted it to be over. I had waited long enough. The idea of waiting any longer made my stomach twist.

Chapter Nineteen “Madam, we are desperate. The conductor we have… I'm sure he tears his own hair out at least as much as we do. He's much better suited to the post of First Violin, and he knows it. He's said as much. He never really wanted to conduct, but there was nobody else to take his place. But, of course, we could not stop Herr Benes retiring, and so we found ourselves in rather a difficult situation. He gave perfectly adequate notice, but we could not find a suitable conductor in that time. Please come to the opera house tomorrow, for your first rehearsal. I'm sure everyone here will be as relieved to have you conduct as you are happy to conduct!” My eyes bulged, and I pressed my lips together, eyebrows lurching up. I hadn’t even asked yet! I couldn’t speak. “Say you’ll do it,” said Herr Jelen, “I beg of you.” The look on his face, in his wide, drooping eyes, was so sad and heart-rending that I couldn’t have said no even if I’d wanted to. But I didn’t want to.

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