“Glaube mir, ein hoher Beyfall lastet wie eine große Schuldforderung auf der Seele des Künstlers, der es redlich meint, und er bezahlt sie nie, wie er wohl möchte.”
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What happened on May 23?
1643Johann Baptist (III.) Weber died.
1734Franz Anton Mesmer was born.
1738Sophie Friederike Seyler was born.
1749Joachim Wagner died.
1752Rudolph Graf Morzin was born.
1774Caroline Schneider was baptised.
1777Friedrich Wilken was born.
1789Franz Anton Heinrich von Schlik was born.
1794Ignaz Moscheles was born.
1801Fridolin von Weber writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]
1801Barbara von Weber writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]
1807Carl Schiller was born.
1812Carl Maria von Weber writes to Johann Gänsbacher. [View letter]
1812Carl Maria von Weber writes to Franz Danzi. [View letter]
1814Rehearsal of Das Hochzeitsfest im Eichthale. [View diary entry]
1814Rehearsal of Chor Lenz erwacht, und Nachtigallen. [View diary entry]
1815Rehearsal of Les Aubergistes de qualité. [View diary entry]
1816Rehearsal of Sargino ossia L'allievo dell'amore. [View diary entry]
1816Performance of Graf von Essex oder Die Gunst der Fürsten. [View diary entry]
1819Sebastian Böhmer died.
1820Friedrich Rochlitz writes to Friedrich Schneider. [View letter]
1821Performance of Maria Stuart. [View diary entry]
1825Carl Maria von Weber writes to Friedrich Rochlitz. [View letter]
1826Work on Song der Nurmahal aus Lalla Rookh From Chindara's warbling fount I come. [View diary entry]
1826Caroline von Weber writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]
1831Carl Heusser died.
1835Meta Abegg died.
1837Józef Wieniawski was born.
1838Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Grattenauer died.
1839Georg Ludwig Grahl died.
1839Leo von Lauer-Münchhofen was born.
1844Gustav Wustmann was born.
1851August Wilhelm Francke died.
1851Wilhelm Bornemann died.
1852Wilhelmine Thilenius died.
1857Gottlob Roth died.
1863Sophie Cramer died.
1864Keppen, Petr Ivanovič died.
1865C. L. Barth writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]
1875Wilhelm Mangold died.
1879Gustaw Karol Sennewald writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]
1885Carl Baermann sen. died.
1959Otto Obermayer died.
