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- The dreamiest of the talented Brontë clan, Emily Jane Brontë was born in 1818. Her mother died when she was barely more than a toddler, and Emily and her younger sister, Anne, became very close. Along with their other siblings, 'Charlotte Bronte' and Branwell Bronte, they invented the make-believe kingdoms of Angria and Gondal, which occupied their lonely childhoods.
Emily never socialized well, and had few friends outside her family. In 1846 she and her sisters published a compilation of their poetry, "Poems", which was followed a year later by Emily's only novel, "Wuthering Heights". An intense and powerful novel, whose enigmatic hero Heathcliff was modeled on Emily's brother, Branwell, "Wuthering Heights" was not an immediate success like Charlotte's "Jane Eyre", but was later recognized as one of the best books of English Literature. Like her sisters, Emily published her book under a male pseudonym, Eliss Bell. In 1848, while attending the funeral of her brother Branwell, Emily caught a cold that developed quickly into the tuberculosis that would take her own life later that year. - Music Department
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Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was born November 29, 1797 in Bergamo, Italy. He was born in a windowless cellar into a poor family of a government clerk. At the age of 9 he became a protégé of Johann Simon Mayr, Maestro di Cappella of the Lombard city. Johann Mayr hosted and educated young Donizetti, and later sent the talented boy to study music under the renowned Padre Stanislao Mattei, the head master of the Music School in Bologna. After graduation he enlisted in the Army, and avoided going back to poor life in Bergamo.
In 1818 Donizetti's first operas were performed in Venice with modest success. In 1822 Donizetti settled in Naples and there had his first big success with two operas: "Zoraida di Granada" (1822) and "La zingara" (1822). He was developing the Bel canto style, writing his hallmark melody lines in a perfect match to Italian lyrics. Donizetti played with variety of genre from the comedy "L'ajo nell'umbarazzo" (1824), to the heroic neo-classical drama "L'esule di Roma" (1828), to the romantic melodrama "Il Paria" (1829).
Donizetti became famous beyond Italy with his opera "Anna Bolena" (1830). The superb quality of his music made him the rival of Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini. Donizetti's next operas "L'elisir d'amore" (1832), "Parisina" (1833), "Lucrezia Borgia" (1833), and "Maria Stuarda" (1834) were performed in Rome, Genoa, Florence, and Teatro alla Scala in Milano. Meanwhile he had a teaching position at the Naples Conservatoire and had a good reputation for his warmth, generosity and devotion to his work.
His opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" (1835) straddled the annals of the day more brilliantly than any other opera. Donizetti went to Paris, and soon after was given the position of the Court Composer in Vienna. His later operas were written to French texts, with the inevitable loss of Bel canto smoothness, which was best in his melodies written to Italian lyrics. His last works of "grand-opera" scale integrated ballet numbers in spectacular settings. "Don Pasquale" (1843) was Donizetti's last opera. He died of paralysis on April 8. 1848, in Bergamo, Italy.
Vocally challenging "L'elisir d'amore" (The Elixir of Love 1832) remains a perennial favorite of the Bel canto opera repertoire worldwide. It is a story of a young love-struck Nemorino, who bought a bottle of magic drink from a traveling drug-pusher, who claims it to be a 'love potion'. Nemorino is trying to win the heart of the coquettish Adina, who eventually discovers that Nemorino's love is true and sincere. It was made into the eponymous film in 1992, starring Luciano Pavarotti as Nemorino and Kathleen Battle as Adina.
"Una furtiva lagrima" from the opera "L'elixir d'amore" is among the most famous tenor arias. It's legendary 1904 Victor recording by Enrico Caruso was used in 'Match point' (2005), 'Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino' (1977), and many other films, often uncredited.- Writer
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Steen Steensen Blicher was born on 11 October 1782 in Virum, Denmark. Steen Steensen was a writer, known for Præsten i Vejlby (1922), Præsten i Vejlby (1931) and Elise (1985). Steen Steensen died on 26 March 1848 in Denmark.- Music Department
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Joseph Mohr was born on 11 December 1792 in Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg, Holy Roman Empire [now Salzburg, Austria]. He is known for The Giver (2014), L.A. Confidential (1997) and Get Carter (2000). He died on 4 December 1848 in Wagrain, Salzburg, Austrian Empire [now Austria].- His father, John Adams, served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. In 1779, at the age of 12, the young Adams accompanied his father to Europe. There the linguistically gifted boy supported the US embassy as a translator and secretary. When Adams enrolled at Harvard in 1785, he already had knowledge of Greek, Latin, French, Dutch and German. After studying law, he began working as a lawyer in Boston in 1790. At the same time, he gained a certain level of notoriety by writing political essays for the press in support of George Washington's administration. In 1793 the young Adams was sent to the Netherlands as a diplomat. On a diplomatic mission to London he met the American consulate's daughter Louisa Catherine Johnson, whom he married in 1797. In the same year Adams was sent as an envoy to Prussia.
Returning to the United States, he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1801. In 1803 he was appointed to the US Senate, where he served until 1808. In 1809, Adams went on a diplomatic mission to Russia, where he was able to win over Tsar Alexander as a mediator in the American conflict with Great Britain. In 1812 he helped negotiate the peace treaty with Great Britain. From 1815 Adams worked as an ambassador in London. Two years later, he was appointed Secretary of State by President James Monroe. In complete agreement with the president, in this role until 1825 he contributed to raising the USA to an equal size with the European powers, giving them independent diplomacy and helping them make territorial gains. In this context, Adams was instrumental in the negotiations that led to the acquisition of Florida and the securing of Louisiana's western border. In 1823 he contributed to the development of the "Monroe Doctrine".
In 1824, Adams won the American presidential election to become the sixth president of the United States for one term from the following year. However, his policy of internal reform and national consolidation was largely unsuccessful due to opposition resistance. In the election campaign of 1828, John Quincy Adams was overwhelmingly defeated by Andrew Jackson, who succeeded him as president a year later. After a temporary withdrawal from political life, Adams was elected to the House of Representatives in 1831, where he served until his death in 1848. As an independent, he took up the demand for the abolition of slavery without joining the ranks of the abolitionists. Soon after, he suffered a stroke in the House of Representatives.
John Quincy Adams died on February 23, 1848 in Washington. - François-René de Chateaubriand was born on 4 September 1768 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. He was a writer, known for La mer (2011). He died on 4 July 1848 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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Sarah F. Adams was born on 22 February 1805 in Harlow, Essex, England, UK. Sarah F. was married to William Bridges Adams. Sarah F. died on 14 August 1848 in St. Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, England, UK.- Annette von Droste Hülshoff was interested in music and poetry from an early age, which were also talents she was born with. Her independent thinking was already nipped in the bud by the family; she was considered an outsider. A relationship with a middle-class student in 1819 and 1820 broke up at family instigation. This meant that the future poet's thinking and ideas were also directed towards the conservative, which she also expressed in her works. She joined the family by accompanying her mother on trips or by tolerating censorship interference in her works by her brother. There was hardly any opportunity for everyday outbursts. In the years 1825 and 1826 as well as 1828 she traveled to Cologne and Bonn. During this time she met Sibylle Mertens. Due to her unstable health, Annette Droste-Hülshoff was always sickly.
Their natural habitat was the Münsterland, the Paderborner Land, the Rhineland and the area around Lake Constance. Her sister was married to the German scholar Joseph von Lassberg and lived first in Eppishausen, Switzerland, and then in Meersburg. In the years 1835 and 1836 as well as in the 1940s she spent long periods visiting her sister in Eppishausen and Meersburg. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's complete works include, among other things, narrative prose, drama fragments, verse epics and novels. Sacred and secular poetry form the center of her work. The novel "Ledwina" about a young woman was written around 1821, but it remained a fragment. The drama entitled "Berta or the Alps" also remained unfinished around 1814.
In 1838 the title "Poems" was created, in which the verse epics make up a large part. In it the poet proved her way to her own poetic expression. In her later poems such as "The Battle of the Loener Bruch" she expressed her Westphalian motif. The volume of poetry "The Spiritual Year" was written between 1820 and 1839, in which the poet continued the religious baroque tradition and dealt with her own problems in life and faith. Nature poetry and symbolic cognitive poetry were the content of her later poetic work, which gained importance in this creative phase. In addition to the insights into landscape areas of the heath and moor, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff succeeds in creating a new way of representation by confronting the perceivable aesthetics of nature with the uncanny side of nature.
In 1842 the novella with the title "Die Judenbuche" was written, which was first printed in the "Morgenblatt for educated readers" in April and May of the same year. In this narrative work she successfully combined elements of the horror novel and the crime story.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff died on May 24, 1848 in Meersburg. - The Eton and Cambridge-educated William Lamb was called to the bar in 1804. He took his seat in the House of Commons in 1805, and married Caroline Ponsonby, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough, that June 3rd. Her grandfather, the 1st Earl Spencer, was the 6th great-grandfather of Princess Diana.
After 2 miscarriages, Caroline gave birth to a son, George Augustus Frederick, on August 28, 1807. Tragically, was he epileptic and mentally handicapped. But instead of placing him in an asylum, as other couples of their rank would have done, Lamb and Caroline cared for him themselves. George died in 1836.
Despite the heartbreak of George's condition and the loss of their daughter, who died 24 hours after she was born, the pair were happy. Then Caroline met Lord Byron in 1812 at a party she was hosting. Although she famously noted in her diary later that evening that he was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know", she soon succumbed to the notorious libertine, and remained obsessed by him after he broke with her. An exasperated Byron eventually sought help from Lady Melbourne, who launched a very-public campaign to rid her son of his wife. It was Caroline who finally prevailed upon Lamb to agree to a formal separation, nine years after Byron left England for good. Lamb undertook the perilous voyage from Ireland to his family's estate to be with Caroline before she died on January 25, 1828; he never remarried. Upon his father's death that July 23rd, he was styled 2nd Viscount Melbourne, of Kilmore in the County of Cavan. He became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on April 18, 1835.
In 1836, the husband of socialite Caroline Norton attempted to blackmail him. When Lamb refused to pay out, Norton accused him of being Caroline's lover. Owing to his reputation for integrity, not only did Lamb's government not fall, King William and the Duke of Wellington urged him to stay on. He was ultimately vindicated; however, Caroline's reputation was ruined, and their friendship was destroyed.
In June 1837, the now-58-year-old Lamb became the then-18-year-old Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister. His foreign secretary Lord Palmerston's obsession with British identity was a thorn in Lamb's side, and Ireland was a constant worry. Conservative and cautious, he had mastered the art of doing next to nothing. Biographer Dorothy Marshall noted: "Lamb's capacity to do absolutely nothing unless driven, and then do as little as possible, was a definite asset". Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert effectively ended Lamb's role as her advisor and mentor. Trouble between British and French settlers in Canada and unrest in Jamaica as a result of his decision to abolish slavery were his undoing. When his majority fell to just four, he resigned on August 30, 1841.
Lamb died on November 24, 1848. Melbourne, Australia is named for him. - Frederick Marryat was born on 10 July 1792 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Jafet, der søger sig en Fader I-IV (1922), Midshipman Easy (1935) and The Little Savage (1959). He was married to Catherine (Kate). He died on 9 August 1848 in Norfolk, England, UK.
- Martins Pena was born on 5 November 1815 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a writer, known for O Grande Desbum... (1978), O Noviço (1975) and O Namorador (1978). He died on 7 December 1848 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Evgeniy Grebyonka was born on 2 February 1812 in Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. Evgeniy was married to M. Rostenberg. Evgeniy died on 15 December 1848 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia].
- Heinrich Zschokke was born on 22 March 1777 in Magdeburg, Duchy of Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. Heinrich was a writer, known for Die kriegerischen Abenteuer eines Friedfertigen (1991) and Jungfer Miras Mirakel (1986). Heinrich died on 27 June 1848 in Aarau, Switzerland.
- Francis Cornu was born on 30 January 1798 in Saint-Franchy, Nièvre, France. Francis was a writer, known for The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006), Nabucco (2003) and Verdi: Nabucco (2007). Francis died on 7 March 1848 in Paris, France.