Biography

Anecdotes say that Antonio Vivaldi wrote the Four Seasons and about six hundred variations on this composition.

According to historians, Napoleon was a short man, being 169 centimeters tall.

According to the will, the heart extracted from Kosciuszko's body was placed in an urn and given to Emilia Zeltner, the daughter of Franz.

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to be officially deified.

In 1791, Wolfgang's librettist and friend Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned him to write "The Magic Flute" - a fairy tale opera (singspiel - opera with spoken interludes).

In 1875, having previously obtained a scholarship (thanks to a high school teacher), he enrolled at the Graz University of Technology.

Throughout his career, Sting has been and continues to be an ardent advocate of human rights and environmental issues.

The epics "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are the oldest monuments of Greek and European literature in general.

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.

The second Tuesday of October is Ada Lovelace Day.