Ball, Hugo b. February 2, 1886 d. September 14, 1927 Artist. Regarded as the "Father of Dadaism", he founded "Cabaret Voltaire". He was the inventor of dadaist phonetic poetry, and wrote essays about "Siddhartha" author Hermann Hesse. (Bio by: Apats) S. Abbondio Church Cemetery, Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland
Hesse, Hermann b. July 2, 1877 d. August 9, 1962 Poet and Novelist. In 1946 he win Nobel prize for literature and the Goethe Prize. His parents were religious publishers. In 1891 Hesse he was expelled from the school and after that he worked on several jobs. His first work was published in 1899 and he became a freelance writer in 1904. After his visit to India in 1911 he interested in studies of eastern religions and in 1922 he published the novel "Siddhartha." He published "Demian" after World War I in 1919. His next novel "Steppenwolf" was...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena) S. Abbondio Church Cemetery, Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland
Walter, Bruno b. September 15, 1876 d. February 17, 1962 Conductor. Born Bruno Walter Schlesinger, he began his musical education at the age of eight at the Stern Conservatory, Germany and was nine when he made his first public appearance as a pianist. In 1893, he made his conducting début there with Lortzing's Waffenschmied and the following year went to the Hamburg Opera to conduct. He joined the Court Opera in Vienna in 1910 and in Vienna the following year gave his first performance of the Ninth Symphony, having also prepared the score for...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) S. Abbondio Church Cemetery, Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland
b. February 2, 1886 d. September 14, 1927