“ich habe ja aber einmal mein Leben darein gesezt, und meine Bestimmung darinnen gesehen, für andre zu leben, und ihnen meine Kunst zur freudigen Beute zu geben. also heißt es, erfüllen, und tragen, ohne Murren”

1725Ferdinando Giuseppe Bertoni was born.

1756Václav Král was born.

1765Christian Horneman was born.

1769Napoleon Bonaparte was born.

1769Ferdinand Kaufmann was born.

1771Walter Scott was born.

1772Johann Nepomuk Mälzel was born.

1776Ignaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried was born.

1780Christian Heinrich Stobwasser was born.

1785Friederike von Alvensleben was born.

1790Karl Wilhelm Böttiger was born.

1793Betty Herz was born.

1796Vinzenz Hospodsky was born.

1798Felice Alessandri died.

1811Friedrich I., König von Württemberg writes to Ludwig von Taube. [View letter]

1817Carl Maria von Weber writes to Caroline von Weber. [View letter]

1817Leo Susan was born.

1819Marie Aschenbrenner died.

1821Christian George Lebrecht Reichenbach died.

1822Wilhelm Rust was born.

1823Luisa Freifrau von Zyllnhardt died.

1825Carl Maria von Weber writes to Gottfried Weber. [View letter]

1826Caroline von Weber writes to Adolph Martin Schlesinger. [View letter]

1832Ernst Naumann was born.

1843Jules De Swert was born.

1847Wilhelm von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg died.

1853Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda writes to Richard Pohl. [View letter]

1853Giovanni Battista Polledro died.

1855Franz Xaver Eisenhofer died.

1855Heinrich Wilhelm Schulz died.

1860Juliane Henriette Ulrike von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld died.

1864Leopold Andreas Ignaz Sonnleithner writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. [View letter]

1886Robert Maria Haas was born.

1890Jacques Ibert was born.

1902Carl Debrois van Bruyck died.

1905Ludwig Slansky died.

1907Joseph Joachim died.

1915Georg Kaiser writes to Zahn & Jaensch. [View letter]

1951Herfried Münkler was born.