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The answer is probably Johannes Brahms and Piotr Tchaikovsky, who were both born on 7, May.
The answer is probably Johannes Brahms and Piotr Tchaikovsky, who were both born on 7, May.
zoobyshoe said:#2 Ignacy Jan Paderewski:
"When Germany attacked Poland in 1939 and President I. Moscicki hastened to Romania, Paderewski was asked to succeed him, but declined because of ill health. In January 1940, he became president of the new Polish Parliament-in-Exile. In December 1940, he went to the United States and died in New York City on June 29, 1941.
Upon receiving word of Paderewski's death, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the State Department and asked that the department inform Paderewski's family and officials of the Polish embassy that Paderewski's body could be given a temporary resting place in the vault of the Mast of the USS Maine Monument in Arlington National Cemetery. President Roosevelt said, "He may lie there until Poland is free." "
Military District of Washington - Fact Sheet: Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Address:http://www.mdw.army.mil/fs-p35.htm
zoobyshoe said:#5
The answer is probably Johannes Brahms and Piotr Tchaikovsky, who were both born on 7, May.
marlon said:Beethoven died in 1827
Mozart died in 1791
marlon
Composers
1. Each of these two composers usually kept a gun handy and nearby. Who were they, and what was the reason in each case?
3. This composer/performer, in his younger days, performed several works which he claimed were newly discovered compositions of the masters of previous periods. It was later found that he was the actual composer. Who was he.
4. These two countrymen each died as result of accidents; one on a bicycle and the other (indirectly) after the debilitating effects of an automobile accident. Who were they?
Orchestral Works
7.The composer produced this symphony, as a student at age seventeen, which was then forgotten and unpublished for almost a century. Since then, however it has become a concert favorite,and was even used in a ballet. By the way, Mozart also produced a breakout symphony at age 17, though his was not as popular as the one of our subject composer. Who was our subject composer and what symphony was it?
Opera
11. Which Operatic overture, by what composer, caused quite a stir simply because it was started with a "drum roll"?
13. A scene in what opera, by which composer, is described as taking place on a desolate plain outside New Orleans? (Huh! I didn't know there was a desolate plain anywhere near New Orleans?)
15. A certain well-known Operatic singer, according to a protege and successor, was described as functionally, nearly blind, and to avoid embarrassing accidents during a performance, would pace off all distances on-stage before a performance. Who was this person?