D. P. Wagner

Caesar Augustus

dpwagner — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:03:00 +0000

Who was the Roman emperor who had an age named after him? That would have to be Caesar Augustus after whom the Augustan Age was named.

Lord Byron

dpwagner — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:34:45 +0000

Mad, bad and dangerous to know: that is they dubbed Lord Byron, the English Romantic poet. Byron scandalised respectable society of the early 19th century but his poetry and his belief in liberty (he fought for the freedom of Greece) live on.

Free classical music downloads from Wikipedia

dpwagner — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:40:52 +0000

Wikipedia has free classical music downloads. The range is vast from Albeniz and Brahms to Verdi and Wagner. The downloads are .ogg format, which happily can be converted to the mp3 format. Read more at Wikipedia

Antonio Vivaldi

dpwagner — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:55:02 +0000

Most people have heard of the Four Seasons by Vivaldi; but this Italian composer of the Baroque period wrote hundreds of other works.

Click here to hear some of Vivaldi’s other works of music

Welcome!

dpwagner — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:23:55 +0000

Welcome to my blog. I will be blogging here on a variety of topics, of mainly historical interest.