Biography

Tuesday, 3 February 2026

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Amadeus Mozart
Mozart was the first great professional composer to write popular music (dances, divertimentos, serenades headed by "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik").
He left behind more than 50 symphonies, dozens of concertos for piano, violin, flute and other solo ...
Ernest Hemingway
After all these adventures, in September 1919, he went on a camping trip with his high school classmates to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.
This trip inspired him to write the short story “Big Two-Hearted River,” in which the protagonist es ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Many wealthy Viennese noticed his abilities and offered him financial support, including Prince Joseph Franz Lobkowitz, Prince Charles Lichnowsky, and Baron Gottfried van Swieten.
Aided by contacts with Haydn and Waldstein, Beethoven began to gain a reputation as a performer and ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
After the master's death, a letter to the Immortal Beloved was found in a hidden drawer of the desk (found together with, among others, the Heiligenstadt Testament).
Unfortunately, it was not possible to determine who the mysterious addressee of the letter was, nor ...
Robert Oppenheimer
During World War II, he became the scientific director of the Manhattan Project.
The secret research project involved the development of the first atomic bomb. Its goal was to harne ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko was depicted in many paintings.
He was painted, among others, by Jan Matejko - "Battle of Racławice", as part of the Racławice Panorama by Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak, et al.
Homer
He may have been one of the forerunners of writing down poetic song previously transmitted orally.
In the eighth century BC, alphabetic writing was introduced to Greece. There was a growing shift awa ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s marital relations began to deteriorate when he met Pauline Pfeiffer and got into an affair with her, and his wife found out.
Hadley asked for a separation and later filed for divorce. The couple divorced in January 1927, and ...
Charles Darwin
In 1835, Darwin experienced an earthquake in Chile.
High in the Andes, he saw shells and numerous tree fossils exposed by the tremors. From this he conc ...
Frederic Chopin
In 1817 the first printed work by Frederic Chopin was published. It was a polonaise in the key of G minor.
It was published in the parish typographical establishment of the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the New Town in Warsaw.