Luxembourg is a small European country, and one of the Low Countries. Its music and cultural heritage is Germanic. The national music federation is called LGDA; another important institution is the Luxembourg Conservatory of Music. Music festivals include the Echternach Music Festival and the Rock um Knuedler. The national radio station, Radio Luxembourg, is listened to throughout Europe. Modern Luxembourg boasts an array of performers, folk, classical and pop, as well as rock, hip hop and other genres.
In 1839, the Treaty of London took the eastern part of the province of Luxembourg from Belgium to create the present Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (a quarter of the territory that it had at the height of its expansion).
It is the birthplace of the city and country of Luxembourg although it is not the oldest castle on Luxembourgish land.
In 58 BC after the conquest of the Gauls by Julius Caesar and Labienus, the Pax Romana introduced the Christian faith, stimulated the cultivation of vines and fruit trees and spread the taste for Roman architecture which gradually replaced the huts of the Treviri established in the region before its conquest by Caesar.
The musical “composition†resulting, in its turn was a typical representation of contemporary Dutch musical aesthetics – it featured diatonic harmonies, for the most part, as well as a quasi-minimalist approach of static harmonies and a sound-world alluding to certain folk or ethnic music traditions, with an air of the Down-town American music tradition.
Nevertheless, the sharp musical contrast of style emphasised the theatrical genre of the music, and demonstrated that the composition was clearly following the development of the stage script in its form.
The music was a rather traditional, theatrical type, with a strong flavour of Chinese exoticism, inherent in the pentatonic harmonies and the strong allusion to Chinese traditional folk music by the orchestral textures.
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