“Ich warte mit Schmerzen auf einen guten neuen OpernText, denn wenn ich keine Oper unter den Fäusten habe ist mir nicht wohl.”
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What happened on August 18?
1541Heinrich, Herzog von Sachsen died.
1642Guido Reni died.
1745Ludwig Fischer was born.
1750Antonio Salieri was born.
1777Johann Carl van der Breling was born.
1780Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur was born.
1785Friedrich Wieck was born.
1786Otto Graf von Loeben was born.
1787Therese van Beethoven was born.
1789Johanna Caroline Medicus was born.
1800Franz Uëtz was born.
1802Johann Carl Gombart writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]
1805Josef Danhauser was born.
1812Work on Sonate für Klavier Nr. 1 C-Dur. [View diary entry]
1816Rehearsal of Faust. [View diary entry]
1816Performance of Das Sternenmädchen im Maidlinger Walde. [View diary entry]
1817Rehearsal of Le Secret. [View diary entry]
1817Rehearsal of Les Aubergistes de qualité. [View diary entry]
1817Carl Maria von Weber writes to Caroline von Weber. [View letter]
1818Work on Jubel-Kantate. [View diary entry]
1822Performance of Le nouveau seigneur de village. [View diary entry]
1823Rehearsal of Les Aubergistes de qualité. [View diary entry]
1823Work on Euryanthe, große romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen. [View diary entry]
1826Karl Theodor (von) Küstner writes to Karl Theodor Winkler. [View letter]
1827Adolph Martin Schlesinger writes to Moritz von Weber. [View letter]
1828Karl Theodor Winkler writes to Carl August Böttiger. [View letter]
1830Franz Joseph I., Kaiser von Österreich was born.
1833Carl Schall died.
1834Pauline Jordan died.
1836Franz Wilhelm von Wiesenhütten died.
1838Angelo Neumann was born.
1839Carl Friedrich Löbbecke died.
1845Georg Karl Wilhelm Philipp Freiherr von Donop died.
1849Karl Theodor Winkler writes to Giacomo Meyerbeer. [View letter]
1850Honoré de Balzac died.
1851Amalie Wolff died.
1853Peter Lichtenthal died.
1867Moritz Hauptmann writes to Franz Hauser. [View letter]
1873Karl II., Herzog von Braunschweig died.
1886Carl August Christian Brandt died.
1892Zélia Trebelli died.
1895Rudolf F. Kallir was born.
1949Dora Mendelssohn Bartholdy died.
