“Gelegenheits Arbeiten die nur Eintagsfliegen in der Kunstwelt sind, gehören zur Schattenseite eines DienstVerhältnißes, und sind wegen ihrer Vergänglichkeit immer eine trübe Arbeit wenn man auch noch so treu ergeben und liebend anhänglich demjenigen ist, für den man sie schreibt”
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What happened on May 17?
1662Wilhelm IV., Herzog von Sachsen-Weimar died.
1743Johann Gottwerth Müller was born.
1754Johann Heinrich Geymüller was born.
1760Johann Friedrich Hugo Freiherr von Dalberg was born.
1761Joseph Seconda was baptised.
1793Pietro Nardini died.
1797Marianne Bargiel was born.
1797Michel-Jean Sedaine died.
1797Carl Krägen was born.
1799Daniel Itzig died.
1799Julius August Marschall von Altengottern was born.
1799Alfonso Zezi was born.
1801Franz Anton von Weber writes to Franz Kirms. [View letter]
1801Christoph Friedrich August Kurzwelly writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]
1802Vincent Weyrauch died.
1803Traugott Maximilian Eberwein writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]
1811Carl Maria von Weber writes to Giacomo Meyerbeer. [View letter]
1818Friedrich Heinel died.
1822Carl August Böttiger writes to Heinrich Blümner. [View letter]
1822August, Herzog von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg died.
1822Bernhard Cossmann was born.
1824Carl Maria von Weber writes to Hinrich Lichtenstein. [View letter]
1825Johann August Künzel died.
1826Ludwig Emanuel Ernst died.
1826Camilla Winkler was born.
1829Maria Josepha Amalia, Königin von Spanien died.
1839Bernhard Mitterbacher died.
1842Jakob Leidhecker died.
1842Friederike Krickeberg died.
1843Joseph Sellner died.
1847Johanna Franul von Weißenthurn died.
1856August Swoboda died.
1863Carl Meaubert died.
1866Adolph Bernhard Marx died.
1875Agnes Louise von Nostitz und Jänckendorf died.
1876Caroline Pichler died.
1884Louis Brassin died.
1886Jenny Bürde-Ney died.
1910Folker Göthel was born.
1919Bohumil Pazdírek died.
1981Peter Wackernagel died.
