Biography

Aided by contacts with Haydn and Waldstein, Beethoven began to gain a reputation as a performer and ...

Anti-Macedonian sentiments grew stronger in Athens around Plato’s death, and Aristotle may have feared some sort of retaliation, even though he was not of Macedonian origin, but an Ionian Greek.

A year and a half later, they met in Vienna, when Beethoven was playing in La Redoute Bonn Bad Godesberg.

It begins after the end of the Trojan War. The epic describes the fate of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, ...

He was interested in music and initially studied it to become an outstanding pianist.

They were composed around 1720 in Mantua and published in Amsterdam in 1725 with a dedication to the Bohemian Count Wenzl von Morzin, who was a patron of Vivaldi.

Kosciuszko entrusted the rest of his estate to Thomas Jefferson. The latter was the executor of his ...

The price he had to pay for freeing 20.000 Poles from Russian prisons and gulags was to take an oath of allegiance and pledge not to return to Poland.

The Tsar's family attended, and the Tsarina placed an icon signed by all the funeral attendees in the coffin before closing it.