Celebration Music For The Marriage Of Prince Elect
Label: Christopho Catalog: CHR77371 Format: CD I CiarlataniWhen the Palatinate Prince-Elector Friedrich V married the English Princess Elizabeth Stuart on Valentine's Day 1613, the whole world spoke of the "marriage between the Rhine and the Thames". The Calvinist Electoral Palatinate led the union of the Protestant German princes at this time, and the Palatinate politicians saw in Anglican England a powerful ally against the Catholic Habsburgs. Thus this marriage was, of course, - as was usual at that time - politically motivated; but there is considerable evidence that the two young people were actually fond of Price: $27.98 |