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Baritone Markus Werba as Papageno in the
Salzburg Festival 2012 production of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756; died December 5, 1791) Austrian composer; chamber music, concertos, operas (
The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro), 41 symphonies
Lewis Carroll (1832; died January 14, 1898) English writer and mathematician;
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland;
Through the Looking-Glass;
The Hunting of the Snark; "Jabberwocky"
Died on this day:
John James Audubon (1851; born April 26, 1785) American naturalist and painter;
Birds of America; journals
Giuseppe Verdi (1901; born October 10, 1813) Italian composer of
Aida;
Rigoletto;
Don Carlo;
Il Trovatore;
La Traviata;
Falstaff;
Macbeth
Isaac Babel (1940; born July 13, 1894) Russian journalist, playwright, and short story writer;
Red Cavalry;
Story of My Dovecote;
Tales of Odessa
John Updike (2009; born March 18, 1932) American novelist, poet, short story writer, and critic; the
Rabbit Angstrom novels (
Rabbit, Run;
Rabbit Redux;
Rabbit Is Rich;
Rabbit at Rest;
Rabbit Remembered); the
Henry Bech stories;
The Witches of Eastwick; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1982, 1991)
J. D. Salinger (2010; born January 1, 1919) American short story writer, novelist;
The Catcher in the Rye;
Nine Stories;
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction;
Franny and Zooey
Bonus Classic:
Diogenes the Cynic (412 or 404-323 BCE) Greek philosopher, one of the founders--and the prototype--of Cynic philosophy
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