On this day in 1644 Juan Bautista José Cabanilles was born
He is thought by many to be the greatest Spanish Baroque composer. Here we can see editor Miguel Ripoll checking out the manuscripts and making any final corrections to his organ works which are published by us
La beauté hallucinante de cet escalier du château de la Rochefoucauld dessiné par Léonard de Vinci vers 1520.
Qu'on ne me dise pas que cet homme ne venait pas d'un autre monde.
On this day in 1791 Mozart gave his last public performance in Vienna with the first performance of his final piano concerto.
He would be dead within months.
Erik Satie was an eccentric and influential French composer whose minimalist, witty style helped shape Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and even Ambient music. Rejecting Romantic drama and Impressionist richness, he favored simplicity, repetition, and irony. A mentor to Les Six and friend of Claude Debussy, Satie was as famous for his quirky personality as for his music.
His most enduring works, Gymnopédies, are three serene piano pieces from 1888, known for their sparse harmonies and haunting calm. Inspired by ancient Greece and literature, they evoke a timeless, transparent beauty — early precursors to his idea of “Furniture Music,” meant to create atmosphere rather than demand attention.
Cervantes b otd 1547! So right:
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, and she was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world" during her time.
She began her acting career in Austria and became notorious for being the first woman to simulate an orgasm on screen in 1933.
It was during this time that she also got married to Friedrich Mandl, a Vienna-based arms dealer with ties to Mussolini and later Hitler.
The marriage did not last long. In her own words, she wrote, "I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife... He was the absolute monarch in his marriage... I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded and imprisoned, having no mind, no life of its own."
According to her autobiography, she disguised herself as one of the maids and managed to flee to Paris.
Others say she convinced her husband to wear all of her jewelry for a dinner party and then disappeared afterwards.
She eventually booked a liner to New York, where she met the head of MGM, who was impressed enough to offer her a $500-a-week contract to work as an actress. In 1938, she arrived in Hollywood and went on to star in several movies, working with the likes of Clark Gable and James Stewart.
Beyond her acting career, Lamarr was also co-patented spread-spectrum technology during World War II to prevent the Nazis from jamming navy torpedoes.
However, her invention was rejected and wouldn't be implemented until the Cold War in 1962. The technology would eventually be used in developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology.