Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Born: September 5, 1791
Died: May 2, 1864 (aged 72)
Bio: Giacomo Meyerbeer was a German opera composer of Jewish birth who has been described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the nineteenth century. With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera 'decisive character'.