Kerle, Gaspard. In he left Prague to embark on a career as touring virtuoso that took him to Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. He also suggested that it was initially used as a military instrument but later acquired a religious role, being blown from the tops of minarets during the nights of Ramadan. In the monastic settlement became the site of a princely court, that of the margraves and subsequently from electors of Brandenburg, until , when Berlin became their capital. In July of the following year he appeared for the last time in Prague, conducting his Overture no.
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