Who are the 4 faces on the Chicago theatres facade?
The Chicago theatre has a nifty 4-columned facade depicting four faces. But who are they and what do they stand for? From left to right on the facade… Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. Fritz Reuter Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), a remarkable German novelist and political martyr Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature Together, these four fac
