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Chapters: Antonio Salieri, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Marc Girardelli, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Franz Von Suppé, Camillo Castiglioni, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Ambrosius Petruzzy, Johann Lukas Von Hildebrandt, Lisette Model, Dietmar Constantini, Anton Erhard Martinelli, Erika Morini, Axel Corti, Franz Martinelli, Johann Baptist Martinelli, Peter Guggi, Nicolò Pacassi, Josef Degeorgi, Pietro Bonomo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 96. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Antonio Salieri (Legnago, 18 August 1750 Vienna, 7 May 1825) was a Venetian composer, conductor and teacher born in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg Monarchy. Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th century opera. As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protege of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages. Salieri helped to develop and shape many of the features of operatic compositional vocabulary and his music was a powerful influence on contemporary composers. Appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg court, a post he held from 1774 to 1792, Salieri dominated Italian language opera in Vienna. During his career he also spent time writing works for opera houses in Venice, Rome, and Paris. His dramatic works were widely performed throughout Europe during his life time. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was responsible for music at the court chapel and attached school. Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life. Schubert, Beethoven, and Liszt were among...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2241 ... Read more

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Chapters: Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Bernard Bolzano, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Jan Santini Aichel, Antonín Chittussi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese; 9 May 1892 14 March 1989) was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria. As such, she was the last Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and Queen of Bohemia. Born as the seventeenth child of the dispossessed Robert I, Duke of Parma, Zita married the then Archduke Charles of Austria in 1911. Charles became heir presumptive to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1914 after the assassination of his uncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and acceded to the throne in 1916 after the old emperor's death. After the end of World War I in 1918, the Habsburgs were deposed when the new countries of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs were formed. Charles and Zita left for exile in Switzerland, and later Madeira where Charles died in 1922. After her husband's death, Zita and her son Otto served as the symbols of unity for the exiled dynasty. A devout Catholic, she raised a large family after being widowed at the age of 29, and remained faithful to the memory of her husband for the rest of her long life. Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma was born at the Villa Pianore in the Italian Province of Lucca, 9 May 1892. The unusual name Zita was given her after a popular Italian Saint who had lived in Tuscany in the 13th century. She was the third daughter and fifth child of the deposed Robert I, Duke of Parma and his second wife, Maria Antonia of Portugal, a daughter of king Miguel of Portugal and Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. Zita's father had ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=152546 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CarlFerdinand Cori (December 5, 1896 - October 20,1984) was an Austrian-American biochemistandpharmacologist born in Prague (then in Austria- Hungary,now Czech Republic) who, together with his wife GertyCori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay,received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery ofhow glycogen(animal starch) - a derivative ofglucose- is broken down and resynthesized in the body, foruseas a store and source of energy. In 2004 both weredesignated an ACS National Historical ChemicalLandmarkin recognition of their work that elucidatedcarbohydrate metabolism. ... Read more