“was ist doch ein Pianoforte Concert ein langweilig elend Ding. wenn ich wüste daß es bei mir auch so klänge. ich hakte mir die Finger ab, um die Leute nicht mehr zu Tode zu ennuyiren”
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What happened on May 21?
1471Albrecht Dürer was born.
1626Wolfgang Briegel was born.
1754Joseph Caro was born.
1765Minna Brandes was born.
1769Theodor Haßloch was baptised.
1772Wilhelmine Marianne Zeis was born.
1784Ernst Raupach was born.
1786Karl Friedrich von Klöden was born.
1788Carl Klage was born.
1788Katharina Pawlowna, Großfürstin was born.
1790William George Spencer Herzog von Devonshire Cavendish was born.
1798Carl Mayer was born.
1801Sophie, Wilhelmine Großherzogin von Baden was born.
1810Work on Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 C-Dur. [View diary entry]
1810Carl Maria von Weber writes to Hans Georg Nägeli. [View letter]
1811Performance of Johann Vasmer, Bürgermeister von Bremen. [View diary entry]
1812Joseph Wölfl died.
1813Johann Gottfried Dyk died.
1814Rehearsal of Das Hochzeitsfest im Eichthale. [View diary entry]
1814Performance of Die Schweizer Familie. [View diary entry]
1816Rehearsal of Athalia. [View diary entry]
1816Performance of Athalia. [View diary entry]
1817Work on Der Freischütz, romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen. [View diary entry]
1817Carl Maria von Weber writes to Hinrich Lichtenstein. [View letter]
1818Rehearsal of Die Schweizer Familie. [View diary entry]
1820Carl Kattfuß died.
1820Jakob Moralt died.
1821Rehearsal of Der Freischütz, romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen. [View diary entry]
1821Performance of Olimpie. [View diary entry]
1822Rehearsal of Le Secret. [View diary entry]
1822Performance of Le Secret. [View diary entry]
1822Heinrich Becker died.
1823Work on Euryanthe, große romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen. [View diary entry]
1825Rehearsal of Le jugement de Salomon. [View diary entry]
1826Georg von Reichenbach died.
1829Peter I., Herzog von Oldenburg died.
1836Friedrich Adolph von Holstein died.
1838Marie von Bentzel-Sternau died.
1849Max Maria von Weber writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]
1850Christoph von Ammon died.
1854Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns writes to Gustav Bock. [View letter]
1854Bernhard von Lindenau died.
1856Friedrich von Drieberg died.
1857Carl Friedrich Graf von Hahn-Neuhaus died.
1863Hans Heinrich von Könneritz died.
1864Friederike Hausmann died.
1869Adolf von Henselt writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]
1876Max Maria von Weber writes to Heinrich Jaques. [View letter]
1883Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns writes to Marie Lipsius. [View letter]
1895Josef Müller-Blattau was born.
