Biography

When Congress paid him the outstanding money, even though his financial situation was not the best, he used the entire amount he received to buy freedom and educate the colored population.

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).

He was famous, leading the life of a virtuoso, composing works that quickly became fashionable in the salons. He moved quickly from a small apartment at Boulevard Poissonniere to the fashionable district of Paris, and his friends called his apartment Olympus, because of the heavenly music that came from there.

It is said that the night before Caesar died, Calpurnia dreamed of a scene in which her stabbed husband dies in her embrace.

Pauline was expecting a child and insisted on returning to the United States.

Ada Lovelace befriended her tutor Mary Somerville.Mary Somerville was a Scottish physicist, writer and scholar. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel (a British astronomer) were elected as the first honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society.

She was the first Russian prima ballerina, who gained international fame.

The 1940 adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice"- "In Pursuit of a Husband" won an Oscar.

Thanks to Napoleon's military concept, the history of ancient Egypt was rediscovered in Europe.

Chopin began learning the piano quite early, at the turn of his fourth and fifth year.