june 2
ALESSANDRO CAGLIOSTRO (June 2, 1743)
June 2 is the birthday of Italian occultist and explorer ALESSANDRO CAGLIOSTRO (1743-1795)
Cagliostro "was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy, and scrying. His reputation lingered for many decades after his death but continued to deteriorate, as he came to be regarded as a charlatan and impostor, this view fortified by the savage attack of Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) in 1833, who pronounced him the 'Quack of Quacks.' Later works—such as that of W. R. H. Trowbridge (1866–1938) in his Cagliostro: the Splendour and Misery of a Master of Magic (1910), attempted a rehabilitation." (Wikipedia)
SIR EDWARD ELGAR (June 2, 1857)
June 2 is the birthday of English composer SIR EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934).
"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require."
Elgar "was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924." (Wikipedia)
LOTTE REINIGER (June 2, 1899)
June 2 is the birthday of German animation pioneer LOTTE REINIGER (1899-1981).
Reiniger specialized in silhouette cut-out animation.
"Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926—thought to be one of the oldest surviving feature-length animated films—and Papageno (1935). Reiniger is also noted for having devised the first form of a multiplane camera; she made more than 40 films, all using her invention." (Wikipedia)