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May 17 in Music History

1732 Birth of composer Francesco Pasquale Ricci.

1800 Birth of composer Carl Friedrich Zollner.

1806 FP of Méhul's "Uthal" Paris.

1808 Birth of composer Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel

1819 Birth of composer Johann Nepomuk Kafka.

1823 Birth of contralto and composer Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby.

1838 FP of Balfe's "Diadeste, or The Vieled Lady" in English, London.

1846 Birth of English opera singer Alice Barnett in London. 

1850 Birth of composer Antonio Scontrino.

1853 Birth of Swedish soprano Karolina Oestberg in Stockholm. 

1864 Birth of German soprano Elisabeth Leisinger. 

1866 Birth of French composer Erik Alfred-Leslie Satie in Honfleur. 

1867 Birth of American soprano Sophie Traubmann

1879 FP of Graffigna's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" Padua.

1880 Death of composer Henri Cohen.

1881 Birth of Argentine composer Pascual de Rogatis.

1885 Birth of Czech soprano Marie Slechtova in Prague. 

1888 Birth of Dutch soprano Elisabeth Ohms in Arnhem, Netherlands. 

1889 Birth of Norwegian tenor Karl Åagard Oestvig.

1889 Birth of French flutist Marcel Moyse in Saint-Amour.

1890 FP of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

1890 Birth of American composer, conductor Philip James.

1891 Birth of Russian soprano Elena Stepanova in Moscow. 

1900 Birth of Russian violinist and composer Nicolai Berezowsky.

1901 Birth of German composer Werner Egk in Auchsesheim. 

1901 Birth of German tenor Josef Witt in Munich.

1901 Benedictine monks of Solesmes in Abbey France were praised by Pope Leo XIII for their work restoring the Gregorian chant.

1902 Birth of Italian conductor Fausto Cleva, in Trieste. 

1902 Birth of composer John Vincent.

1906 Birth of Croatian-American soprano Zinka Milanov.

1908 Birth of English bass David Franklin in London. 

1908 Birth of composer Sigismund Toduta.

1912 Birth of Hungarian violinist and conductor Sandor Vegh. 

1914 Birth of composer Guido Masanetz.

1914 FP of Weingartner's "Kain und Abel" Darmstadt.

1918 Birth of Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson in Karup. 

1919 FP of the orchestration of Maurice Ravel's Alborado del Gracioso at Pasdeloup Concert, in Paris.

1921 Birth of English hornist and organist Dennis Brain. 

1923 Birth of American composer Peter Mennin.

1924 Birth of French baritone Gabriel Bacquier in Beziers. 

1924 Birth of composer Frantisek Kovaricek.

1929 Death of German soprano Lilli Lehmann.

1929 FP of Prokofiev's Third Symphony. Monteux conducting in Paris.

1930 FP of Deshevov's "Ice and Steel" Leningrad.

1931 FP of Hába's "Die Mutter" Prague.

1933 Birth of German tenor Herbert Becker in Oberhausen. 

1933 FP of Henry Cowell's Reel for small orchestra, in NYC.

1935 Death of French composer Paul Dukas in Paris. 

1936 Birth of composer Philippe Boesmans.

1941 Birth of composer David Howell Cope.

1944 Birth of English pianist Paul Crossley.

1945 Birth of English baritone Brian Rayner Cook.

1950 Birth of Turkish composer Nejat Basegmezler.

1951 Birth of composer and pianist Paul Amrod.

1956 FP of Ward's "He Who Gets Slapped" in NYC. Revised in 1973.

1958 Birth English conductor Ivor Bolton. 

1960 FP of Ned Rorem's 11 Studies for 11 Players for chamber ensemble, Rorem conducting at the State University of Buffalo, NY.

1969 Death of mezzo-soprano Marie Olczewska.  1969 Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. He conducted 939 performances with the orchestra of them 831 as its Music Director and he conducted 36 world premieres with the NY Philharmonic.

1971 Birth of composer Jason Eckardt.

1978 Philips Electronics of The Netherlands announces new digital sound reproduction reproduction system from flat, silver 'Compact Discs'.

1980 Death of bass Ernst Wiemann. 

1980 Death of soprano Marie Kurenko.

1982 Death of soprano Ester Mazzoleni.

1982 FP of Hoiby's "Something new for the Zoo".

1990 FP of Einojuhani Rautavaara's Vincent at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki.

2000 FP of Michael Torke's Corner in Manhattan.Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue conducting.

2001 FP of Christopher Rouse's Clarinet Concerto. Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, with Larry Combs.

2002 Death of American oboist John de Lancie.