Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979)
Sir Noel Coward (1899-)
Ray Noble (1903-1975)
William Wordsworth (1908-1988)
Rodion Shchedrin (1932)
Art Neville (1937)
and
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
William Safire (1929-2009)
John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969)
and from The Writer's Almanac:
It's the day that The Nutcracker ballet was performed for the first time
in St. Petersburg, Russia (1892). Czar Alexander III, in the audience,
loved the ballet, but the critics hated it. Tchaikovsky wrote that the
opera that came before The Nutcracker "was evidently very well liked,
the ballet not. ... The papers, as always, reviled me cruelly."
Tchaikovsky died of cholera less than a year later, before The
Nutcracker became an international success.
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