Portal:The arts/Did you know/January, 2009

... that Belgian musician Adolphe Sax, who invented the saxophone, also devised the brass instrument saxtuba (pictured)?
... that Polish writer Franciszek Karpiński is best remembered through his hymns and carols?
... that Indian revolutionary poet Jwalamukhi was arrested for his writings in 1971?
... that the 1930 silent film A Daughter of the Congo was billed as a “talking, singing, dancing picture” although it only contained a single short sound sequence?
... that Daniel Hoevels's work has been described as "helping critics rediscover Hamburg's theater"?