Biography

It is assumed that Vivaldi composed about 500 instrumental concertos.

Upon his return to Poland, which had been partitioned by Russia, Austria, and Prussia three years earlier, he found no employment in the army (the Polish army at the time was reduced to 10,000 soldiers).

Sting's relative came from Warsaw.

He was an itinerant poet and reciter.

At the age of 27, he married the widowed aristocrat Josephine de Beauharnais (she was the mistress of many influential politicians after her husband's death).

Sting - Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner - was born on October 2, 1951, in Wallsend, Northumberland County, England.

His favorite song was an American chant written by Daniel Emmett, “Dixie.”

On April 6, 46 BC, a final clash between the Pompeians and the Caesarians took place at Tapsus (Ras Dimas) in Tunisia.

In 1783, he premiered the Great Mass in C minor KV 427.

Young William attended a grammar school in Stratford, a prestigious institution where pupils were taught by Oxford and Cambridge magisters. The young Shakespeare learned Latin, history, ancient literature, rhetoric, basic grammar, and modern languages.