Musical travelogues are plentiful in classical repertoire. Mozart takes us to his favorite city with the “Prague” symphony. Mendelssohn invites us to Scotland with his “Hebrides Overture.” And the American composer Ferde Grofé takes listeners to Arizona with the “Grand Canyon Suite.”
“My dear, incomparable Italy,” Russian master Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky once wrote, in a letter to a friend, expressing his deep affection for the country.
