Biography

Beethoven's income during this period came from the publication of his works, from their performances, and from patrons for whom he performed private concerts and exclusive copies of the works they commissioned before their publication.

He tended to squander the family fortune and quickly fell into debt.

She was considered the sexiest woman numerous times.

He was painting the Last Judgment on the Sistine Chapel's altar wall from 1534 to 1541.

He described himself as the loneliest man in the world.

In 1931, the family settled in Key West, Florida, in a house on Whitehead Street, which the couple received from Pauline’s uncle as a belated wedding gift.

She met her future husband, the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom, during her college years.

Chopin was buried at the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery to the sounds of Mozart's Requiem and his own Funeral March.

Building a sawmill was probably the worst of Sutter's idea.

In 1839, Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood.