Tag: history
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April 2, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The longing for Paradise is man’s longing not to be man.” — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being BIRTHDAYS: 1763 Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, Italian composer, baptized in Rovereto, Prince-Bishopric of Trent. Trio concertante Op. 11 N. 2 1805 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues,…
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April 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and…
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March 31, 2025
Johann Sebastian Bach THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche BIRTHDAYS: 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Brandenburg Concerto…
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March 30, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What is now proved was once only imagined.” — William Blake BIRTHDAYS: 1510 Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish blind organist and composer. Diferencias sobre el Canto Llano del Caballero 1680 Louis-Antoine Dornel, French composer, harpsichordist, organist and violinist. Sonate en Quatuor 1687 Johann Balthasar Freisslich, German organist, composer, and Kapellmeister (Marienkirche (Danzig),…
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March 29, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The other day, I told my A.I. that I love shrimp tempura, and it said, “What’s that?” I said, “What’s shrimp tempura?” and it said, “No, what is love?” — Baratunde Thurston BIRTHDAYS: 1484 Johann Spangenberg, German theologist and composer, born in Hardegsen, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, Holy roman Empire. Allein Gott…
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March 28, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man…
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March 27, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Those who tell the stories rule society.” — Plato BIRTHDAYS: 1702 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer, born in Jettingen-Scheppach, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Prelude, and Toccata in g 1845 Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. MISCELLANEOUS: I WAS…
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March 26, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” — Émile Zola BIRTHDAYS: 1671 Giacomo Cesare Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Papal States. Pace Una Volta 1859 A. E. Housman, English poet.…
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March 25, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” — Buddha BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics. 1699 Johann Adolph Hasse, German operatic…
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March 24, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?” — Dorothy L. Sayers BIRTHDAYS: 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late Baroque composer, and multi-instrumentalist, born in Magdeburg, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire. Ouverture – Suite “La Lyra” TWV 55 Es3, and Sonata I…
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