In the famous Rigvedic Hymn of Creation ( Nasadiya Sukta ) the poet says:

After a close reading of the Thesmophoriazousae, the historian Jane McIntosh Snyder observed that Agathon's costume was almost identical to that of the famous lyric poet Anacreon, as he is portrayed in early 5th-century vase-paintings.

The Italian scholar and poet Petrarch is credited with being the pursuit's first and most famous aficionado.

Vittoria Colonna became famous in the sixteenth century as a poet and a figure in literate circles.

The poet Christian Wernicke was born in 1661 in Elbląg, while Gottfried Achenwall became famous for his teachings in natural law and human rights law.

In 1790, he became engaged to Johanna Rahn, who happened to be the niece of the famous poet F. G. Klopstock.

Five years later, Verdi reworked his " Libera Me " section of the Rossini Requiem and made it a part of his Requiem Mass, honoring the famous novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni, who had died in 1873.

He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from Kobayashi Issa, a famous Japanese haiku poet.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.

Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley | Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound ( Shelley ) | Prometheus Unbound ( 1845 ) On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats.

Severn is best known for his many portraits of Keats, the most famous being the miniature portrait in the National Gallery ( 1819 ), the pen-and-ink sketch, Keats on his Deathbed ( 1821 ), and the oil painting of the poet reading, John Keats at Wentworth Place ( 1821 – 23 ).

* 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.

One of the most famous Welsh poetic references to Arthur comes in the collection of heroic death-songs known as Y Gododdin ( The Gododdin ), attributed to the 6th-century poet Aneirin.

Malden was discovered on 30 July 1825 by Captain The 7th Lord Byron ( a cousin of the famous poet ).

The famous poet and mystic, Jalal al-Din Rumi, was born on September 30, 1207 in Balkh.

By 1598, they were so famous, London poet and sonneteer Richard Barnefield wrote:

* François-Marie Arouet ( Voltaire ): French Enlightenment writer, poet, and philosopher famous for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.

Perhaps the poet was inspired by a famous singer he met in Veneto around 1350's.

Edmund Spenser, a famous English poet best known for his epic poem ' The Faerie Queene '

Ahmed Rami, a famous late Egyptian poet, translated the work into Arabic.

Shah Jahan was very interested in Persian inscription and a Persian poet who requested a famous Persian calligrapher to decorate his palace and castles.

The ministry was spearheaded by Ernesto Cardenal, a famous poet and priest.

* Su Shi, famous Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter, travel writer, pharmacologist, and statesman

* The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem ; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

Complementing his language studies, Sapir studied music in the department of the famous composer Edward MacDowell, though it is uncertain if Sapir studied with MacDowell, or with other faculty.

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Musical comedian Victor Borge often referred to the famous composer as " Joe Green " in his act, saying that " Giuseppe Verdi " was merely his " stage name ".

Matteo Carcassi ( 1792 – 16 January 1853 ) was a famous Italian guitarist and composer.

By far the most famous composer of the Roman School is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

The ragtime composer Scott Joplin became famous through the publication in 1899 of the " Maple Leaf Rag " and a string of ragtime hits that followed, although he was later forgotten by all but a small, dedicated community of ragtime aficionados until the major ragtime revival in the early 1970s.

By far the most famous ragtime composer was Scott Joplin.

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.

He produced operas in each of the prevailing styles: opera buffa, such as The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte ; opera seria, such as Idomeneo ; and Singspiel, of which Die Zauberflöte is the most famous example by any composer.

* Petur Alberg ( 1885 – 1940 ), composer, most famous for composing the national anthem

He also met the American composer George Gershwin in New York and went with him to hear jazz in Harlem, probably hearing some of the famous jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington.

Holst became something of " an anomaly, a famous English composer ", and was busy with conducting, lecturing and teaching obligations.

Her second husband was the famous Mexican musician and composer Agustin Lara El Músico Poeta.

During his lifetime, Berlioz was as famous a conductor as he was as a composer.

He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School.

Another famous citizen was Anton Bruckner, who spent the years between 1855 and 1868 working as a local composer and church organist in the city.

The effective and integral score was written by the Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma, who also wrote the famous song " Autumn Leaves.

( It is interesting, in this regard, to note that Schnabel was a close friend of Arnold Schoenberg, his Austrian-American compatriot, who was famous as a pioneering composer of atonal and twelve-tone music.

Like any great cathedral, Lincoln has had its share of organists who have achieved international renown: perhaps the most famous is William Byrd, the Renaissance composer.

In 1906, Tertis was temporarily in the famous Bohemian Quartet to replace the violist / composer Oskar Nedbal.