Biography

"The Aeneid" - the epic by the Roman poet Virgil is a direct reference to the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey".

He preferred composing to the role of a virtuoso, to which he devoted himself between 1835 and 1846.

In the summer of 2014, he wrote the musical "The Last Ship," inspired by his childhood in the shipyard town of Wallsend.

There was also an anecdote circulating about Vivaldi referring to him as a red-headed priest running to the sacristy during mass to write down a musical theme that had just come to mind.

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.

Nikola Tesla was one of the pioneers of roentgenology.

Her sudden passing has sprung conspiracy theories.

As a reward for teaching his son, Philip II of Macedon freed the inhabitants of Aristotle’s hometown of Stagira from slavery.

Some of Aristotle’s theories were absurd.

After all these adventures, in September 1919, he went on a camping trip with his high school classmates to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.