It was also in 1834 that Heliade began teaching at the "Soţietatea Filarmonică"'s school (alongside Aristia and the musician Ioan Andrei Wachmann), and published his first translations from Lord Byron (in 1847, he completed the translation of Byron's "Don Juan"). The next year, he began printing "Gazeta Teatrului Naţional" (official voice of the National Theater, published until 1836), and translated Molière's "Amphitryon" into Romanian. In 1839, Heliade also translated Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" from a French source. The first collection of his own prose and poetry works saw print in 1836. Interested in the development of local art, he contributed a brochure on drawing and architecture in 1837, and, during the same year, opened the first permanent exhibit in Wallachia (featuring copies of Western paintings, portraits, and gypsum casts of various known sculptures).