* colonial government official
* amateur musician
* composer of sacred and secular music
* member of the Byrd family of Virginia
In the United States, Byrd is recognized as one of the most notable composers of the colonial period and the foremost colonial American composer.
He was the king of one of the most important world powers. He had everything:power, influence, position in the world of the cream of Europe. But he decided to give up the crown and marry the woman he was crazy about. No wonder no one wanted to come to his wedding ... When, in the early 1930s, P
Vincent Van Gogh in one of several self-portraits of him The great Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh died on 29 July 1890 , aged only 37, due to the consequences of a chest injury that he himself, a few days earlier, had procured in a suicide attempt failed. This at least the official vers
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