Biography

In 1791, Wolfgang's librettist and friend Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned him to write "The Magic Flute" - a fairy tale opera (singspiel - opera with spoken interludes).

In the fall of 1808, after turning down a position at the Royal Theater, Beethoven was offered a well-paid position as bandmaster at the court of Cassel by Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia.

A cat named Big Boy Peterson accompanied Hemingway in his last moments at the Idaho estate.

In the spring of 1777, Kosciuszko was sent north to the Canadian border, where he fortified various Continental Army military camps for months under General Horatio Gates.

Edison was surprised by Tesla's success and began campaigning on the dangers of using A.C.

In 1911, he set an altitude record of 3950 meters.

The dying Chopin asked that after his death his heart be taken from his body and sent to Warsaw.

He lacked laboratory skills. He did not feel comfortable in the laboratory, it took him a very long time to plan and carry out experiments, he even worked at night and still had a lot of catching up to do.

The period of his first compositional successes coincided with the period of his first love affair with Konstancja Gładkowska, the singer he called the ideal.

Anna settled at the Ivy House in Golders Green, London, in 1912.