Biography

He was fascinated by Freud.

He is a lawyer by education, although he has never worked in this profession.

He had many plans and dreams connected with his art, but he failed to achieve them all.

Amadeus had a sister, Maria Anna, five years older, who was called Nannerl by the household, also musically talented.

During her school days, she involved herself in many sports and cultural activities.

During World War II, he became the scientific director of the Manhattan Project.

It was not Darwin's observation of finches that contributed to the formulation of the theory of evolution.

Upon his return to Poland, which had been partitioned by Russia, Austria, and Prussia three years earlier, he found no employment in the army (the Polish army at the time was reduced to 10,000 soldiers).

Although he refused to learn to play the cello, years later, he admitted that music lessons contributed to his writing style, as evidenced by the contrapuntal structure of the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

During the uprising, Kosciuszko reformed the Polish army, introducing many innovations.