Previous posts for February 25th are here: Myra Hess (2020), George Harrison; Enrico Caruso (2021), Enrico Caruso (2022), Armand-Louis Couperin (2023), Enrico Caruso (2024), and Enrico Caruso (2025)
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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright playwright and librettist.
Golden Boy
His plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms, and offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values. -- adapted from Wikipedia
No visage was solemn or stony
When watching a play by Goldoni,
Where Venetian vernacular
Eschewed the spectacular
In stories more comic than tony.
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Erich von Hornbostel (25 February 1877 – 28 November 1935) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist, comparative musicologist, and scholar of music.
Everything in Its Place
He is remembered for his pioneering work in the field of ethnomusicology, and for the Sachs-Hornbostel system of musical instrument classification. -- Wikipedia
Erich von Hornbostel did work which describes
The music of villagers, natives, and tribes,
With special attention to cultural vibes.
He listened to instruments, noted their tone.
And how they were stroked, plucked, beaten, or blown,
Then placed them in families ending in "--phone".
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