“Die verdammten Entfernungen; ich meyne immer, wenn ein Brief so lange läuft, müße er unterwegs wie eine Speise immer kälter werden, dahingegen wenn ihn der Andere bald bekömmt, noch so recht die Wärme mit der er aus dem Herzen floß am Papier kleben müßte.”
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What happened on December 6?
1750David Friedländer was born.
1762Traugott Leberecht Pochmann was born.
1775Niccolò Isouard was born.
1789Johann Sedlaczek was born.
1792Gabriela von Swéerts-Sporck was born.
1794Luigi Lablache was born.
1795Wilhelm Urban was born.
1802Karl Freiherr von Mandel writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]
1803Maria Josepha Amalia, Königin von Spanien was born.
1804Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient was born.
1806Gilbert Duprez was born.
1810Carl Maria von Weber writes to Nikolaus Simrock. [View letter]
1810Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [View letter]
1812Karl Prandt died.
1812Carl Maria von Weber writes to Ambrosius Kühnel. [View letter]
1812Carl Maria von Weber writes to Amalie Krause. [View letter]
1816Ernst Keil was born.
1819Carl Maria von Weber writes to Carl Graf von Brühl. [View letter]
1821Carl Maria von Weber writes to Georg Poelchau. [View letter]
1823Friedrich Christian Becherer died.
1823Georg August von Griesinger writes to Carl August Böttiger. [View letter]
1824Jean Bachmann died.
1825George Thomson writes to Carl Maria von Weber. [View letter]
1840Johann Heinrich Sulzer-Wart died.
1850Max Goldstein was born.
1858Charlotte Feige died.
1867Leopold Hirschberg was born.
1869Johannes Hartmann was born.
1882Fanny Kelly died.
1886Friedrich Culemann died.
1901Franz Poland died.
1924Harald Heckmann was born.
