Thursday, June 10, 2010
Tchaikovsky
Wrote and Created the Nutcracker. He also wrote the ballets for Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. In 1891 he conducted the inaugural symphony for New York Carnegie Hall. He died in 1893 He was a Russian.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Virgil
Virgil was a Roman who wrote the Aeneid, a story based off of Homers Odyssey and Iliad. The Aeneid is about Aeneas, who is one of the Trojans who survived the ransacking of Troy and was a famous Trojan leader and how after much traveling and danger found the land of Italy, settled there, and was an ancestor of Romulus and Remus.
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