Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Deaf but brilliant, cursed with an unhappy life and increasingly ill, Ludwig van Beethoven has been…
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Liu Tianhua | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context When Chinese composer Liu Tianhua died in 1932 AD at the age of 37, he had…
Lili’uokalani | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Born Lydia Lili’u Walania Wewehi Kamaka’eha in 1838 AD, when she came to the throne of…
Juventino Rosas | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available slot. Historical Context Enigmatic – mostly because he lived a short time and tended to be footloose – Juventino Rosas is…
Johann Sebastian Bach | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Born in March 1685 AD in Thuringia, J.S. Bach had a prestigious musical lineage in a…
Gauhar Jaan | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Named Angelina Yeoward at birth in 1873 AD in Azamgarh, she would become a famed vocalist,…
Frederic Chopin | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Born in March 1810 AD in Poland, Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen came from an émigré middle-class family…
Franz Liszt | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context A child prodigy, at least in music, by the age of nine Franz Liszt was performing…
Clara Schumann | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Although not widely regarded as a composer – her husband Robert Schumann is, however – Clara…
Antonio Vivaldi | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Ordained as a priest in 1703 AD, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi choose to follow his passion for…