Biography

He participated in the longest press conference in history, lasting 14 hours.

Vivaldi was almost immediately forgotten after his death.

Among Shakespeare’s masterpieces, the most acclaimed nowadays is “Romeo and Juliet,” a tragic love story of two young people who are separated by their feuding families’ past, and “Hamlet,” the story of a Danish prince entangled in love, betrayal, and revenge, who learns of a family secret.

At the age of seventeen, Ada was introduced to the royal court.

Jane's mother, Cassandra Leigh, came from a prominent family-her father was a rector of All Souls College in Oxford.

Beethoven's return from Heiligenstadt to Vienna was marked by a change in musical style and is now often referred to as the beginning of his middle (heroic) period.

His mother was Nancy Lincoln, née Hanks. Her descendant, and therefore a descendant of Abraham Lincoln, is actor Tom Hanks.

He played the title role in a comedy series "Servant of the Nation".

Chopin's next teacher was Wilhelm Waclaw Wurfel, also of Czech origin.

For the sake of Chopin's health and life, as a cholera epidemic was spreading in Paris, his friends found an apartment in Chaillot for him.