Biography

Mozart was the first great professional composer to write popular music (dances, divertimentos, serenades headed by "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik").

During her career, Anna performed over four thousand times.

Columbus tried to convince King John II of Portugal to his ideas, but he sent him back to his advisors, who rejected his plan.

When Constantine returned from the eastern front to Nicomedia in the spring of 303, he witnessed the beginning of Diocletian's "great persecution," the most severe persecution of Christians in Roman history.

She was not only exceptionally talented but ambitious, dedicated, and hardworking.

Kosciuszko's orderly was an African-American from western Massachusetts, Agrippa Hull.

He bought some land in the Virgin Islands.

Mozart died as a very young man, he was only 35 years old. He died in Vienna on December 5, 1791.

Hemingway had a special bond with his black and white male cat, Boise.

In 1810, Beethoven was hailed by the writer and composer Ernst Hoffmann in an influential review of the Allgemeinemusikalische Zeitung as the greatest of the three "Romantic" composers.