Blaze (novel) Blaze (novel) Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. In fact (as mentioned in the afterword of "Different Seasons") it was written before "Carrie" and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as "'Salem's Lot". They chose the latter to be his second novel and "Blaze" became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the
King Stephen (Beethoven) theatre in 1811, Beethoven was commissioned to put to music two commemorative texts written by August von Kotzebue: "König Stephan" (King Stephen) and "Die Ruinen von Athen" (The Ruins of Athens). King Stephen (Beethoven) King Stephen, Op. 117 ("König Stephan") is a commemorative work composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1811. It includes an overture in E flat major and nine vocal numbers. Only the overture is usually played today. The title refers to King Stephen I, founder of the Kingdom of Hungary in the year 1000. In 1808 Emperor Francis I of Austria commissioned the construction of a large