Beethoven has. He popped the question to one of his piano students, Therese Malfatti, in 1810, but she completely blew him out for Wilhelm von Drossdik. Beethoven’s response? Articulate that sense of rejection and longing in one of the most famous piano works ever. For when someone else ...
Take a listento Natalina Cavalieri’s rendition ofGiovanni Capurro’s famous song “O Sol Mio,” recorded in 1911. The “Kissing Primadonna” Cavalieri was born in Viterbo, Italy in 1874 to a very poor family. Her father was a construction worker and her mother was a seamstress, bo...