Biography

The composer returned to Paris shortly before Napoleon Bonaparte was elected President of the Second French Republic.

Although he refused to learn to play the cello, years later, he admitted that music lessons contributed to his writing style, as evidenced by the contrapuntal structure of the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817 in Winchester at the age of 41.

Thanks to Gertrude Stein, he also met the influential painters Picasso, Joan Miró, and Juan Gris.

According to tradition, Homer died in old age on the island of Chios.

He was the first Russian tsar to travel abroad.

Some sources claim Anna wished to be considered a product of her mother’s early marriage, so she claimed her father was a man named Pavel, who died when she was a toddler.

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.

Tesla and Edison were in constant conflict.

Later, Ludwig's father hired better teachers.