#1842-1921 german/polish

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Elise Nees von Esenbeck, Orchids.

(1842-1921 german/polish)

You don't meet the people you love, you recognize them. 不是你認識你所愛的人，而是你會認清他們。

— Anna Gavalda 安娜·戈華達, “生活，只有更好 Life, Only Better” translated by Tina Kover /她出生在法國上塞納省的布洛涅-比揚古鎮。她是一位法語教師和獲獎小說家。當她出生的時候，他父親的工作是向銀行銷售電腦系統，她母親做絲巾繪畫。1990年，她在巴黎著名的、歷史悠久的Molière學校讀大學預科一年級。 安娜·戈華達被法文雜誌《Voici》稱為「多羅西·帕克的傳人」。 重大獎項： Grand prix RTL-Lire 小說改編的電影： 巴黎夜未眠( Ensemble, c'est tout /Hunting and Gathering )， 我愛的人 Someone I Loved ( Je l'aimais )

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September 15 in Music History

1572 Birth of composer Erasmus Widmann.

1586 Birth of composer Cristobal de Isla Diego.

1685 Birth of composer Gottfried Kirkhoff.

1690 Birth of composer Ignazio Prota.

1744 Birth of composer Georg Ritschel.

1750 Gluck marries Maria Anna Bergin of aristocratic Viennese family.

1764 Birth of composer Paolo Francesco Parenti.

1795 FP of Dittersdorf: "Der Schach von Schiras" singspiel, Oles.

1808 Birth of composer Louis Clapisson.

1815 Birth of Norwegian conductor Halfdan Kjerulf in Oslo.

1816 Birth of composer Edward Wolff.

1837 Birth of composer Leo van Gheluwe.

1841 Death of Italian composer Alessandro Rolla in Pavia. 

1842 Death of French violinist Pierre Marie Baillot in Paris. 

1851 Birth of composer Josif Marinkovic.

1855 Birth of German-American organist and composer Adam Geibel. 

1858 Birth of Hungarian composer Jeno Hubay in Budapest.

1863 Birth of American composer of church music, Horatio William Parker.

1867 Birth of Swedish soprano Alma Hulting.

1875 Death of French pianist Louise Dumont Farrenc in Paris. 

1876 Birth in Berlin of American-naturalized conductor Bruno Walter in Berlin. 

1878 Birth of Polish baritone Waclaw Brzezinski.

1879 Birth of Italian baritone Taurino Parvis, in Turin. 

1884 Birth of Argentinian composer Floro Manuel Ugarte in Buenos Aires.

1890 Birth of Swiss composer Frank Martin in Geneva.

1892 Arrival of Czech composer Antonin Dvorák to take Director's position at the National Conservatory in NYC.

1895 Birth of Italian-American pianist and composer Aurelio Giorni in Perugia. 

1897 Borth of German bass-baritone Pail Schöeffler, in Dresden.

1903 Birth of Italian soprano-mezzo soprano Pia Tassinari, in Madigliana.

1909 Birth of Uruguayan composer Carlos Estrada in Montevideo.

1912 Birth of composer Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo.

1913 Birth of Canadian composer Henry Dreyfus Brant in Montreal. 

1913 Birth of German glass harmonica player Bruno Hoffmann in Stuttgart. 

1917 Birth of Austrian soprano Hilde Gueden in Vienna

1917 Birth of English composer Richard Arnell.

1921 Birth of composer Jan Frank Fischer.

1923 Birth of Austrian organist, conductor and composer Anton Heiller. 

1923 Birth of American composer David Kraehenbuehl.

1927 Birth of German soprano Erika Koth.

1933 Birth of Spanish conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos.

1945 Birth of American soprano Jessye Norman in Augusta, GA. 

1945 Death of Austrian composer Anton von Webern.

1946 FP of Henry Cowell's Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 5 for string orchestra. Spa Music Festival Orchestra, F. Charles Adler conducting at the Saratoga Springs, NY, Convention Hall.

1955 Birth of American composer John Sharpley.

1956 Birth of composer and woodwind performer Ned Rothenger.

1957 Birth of American composer Miguel del Aguila in Uraguay.

2000 FP of Sallinen's opera King Lear. Finnish National Opera in Helsinki.

2003 Death of British clarinetist Jack Brymer at age 88.

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July 05 in Music History

1546 Birth of composer Johann Steuerlein.

1654 Birth of composer Antonio Maria Pacchioni.

1764 Birth of composer Janos Lavotta.

1775 Birth of English composer and organist William Crotch.  1816 FP of Paer's "La primavera felice" Paris.

1818 FP of Gyrowetz's "Il finto Stanislao" Milan.

1842 Death of Austrian music publisher Domenico Artaria. 1847 Birth of German-British pianist Agnes Zimmermann in Cologne. 

1852 Birth of composer Stefano Gobatti.

1855 FP of Offenbach's "Entrez, messieurs, mesdames" and "Une Nuit blanche" Paris.

1874 Birth of composer Gerhard von Keussler.

1878 Birth of American writer and critic Lawrence Gilman of the NY Herald Tribune. 1878 Birth of English composer and pianist Josef Holbrooke in Croydon.

1879 Birth of Polish pianist and harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. 1879 Birth of Swiss conductor and composer Volkmar Andreae in Berne.

1879 Birth of French composer and conductor Philippe Gaubert in Cahors.  1880 Birth of Czech violinist Jan Kubelik near Prague. 

1892 FP of Bemberg's "Elaine" Covent Garden, London.

1895 Birth of English composer Gordon Jacob in London.  1897 Birth of Israeli composer and conductor Paul Ben-Haim. 1899 Birth of Chilian composer Domingo Santa Cruz-Wilson in La Cruz, Chile. 

1903 Birth of American composer Irwin Fischer. 

1904 Birth of composer Franz Adolf Syberg.

1904 Birth of English conductor Stanford Robinson

1908 Birth of Italian soprano Gabriella Gatti in Rome. 

1917 Birth of Scottish composer Geraldine Mucha in London.

1918 Birth of American composer George Rochberg in Paterson, NJ. 

1919 Birth of Polish tenor Arrigo Pola in Emilia. 

1920 Birth of composer Issachar Miron.

1921 FP of Giordano/Franchetti's "Giove a Pompei" Rome.

1924 Birth of German bass Oscar Czerwenka in Lienz. 

1924 Birth of Hungarian-American cellist Janos Starker in Budapest. 

1926 Birth of American composer Kenneth Gaburo in Somerville, NJ.

1930 Birth of composer Yutaka Makino.

1931 FP of Ralph Vaughan Williams' ballet Job, A Masque for Dancing in London.

1934 Birth of Finnish baritone Tom Krause in Helsinki. 

1937 Death of baritone Baptist Hoffmann. 

1938 Birth of American film music composer Stanley Silverman.

1940 Birth of Australian baritone Donald Shanks in Brisbane. 

1942 Birth of Swiss conductor and oboist Matthias Bamert in Ersigen.

1943 Birth of Italian bass-baritone Angelo Mario Giulio Gobbato in Milan. 

1945 Birth of Russian conductor Alexander Lazarev. 1947 Birth of American composer David Ott. 1949 Birth of composer Alain Pierre Pradel in Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe.

1950 FP of Peter Racine Fricker's Symphony No. 1 in Cheltenham, England.

1952 Birth of American electronic music composer Michael McNabb.

 1956 Birth of American composer Michael Gandolfi in Melrose, MA.

1958 Birth of English conductor Paul Daniel in Handsworth Wood. 

1961 Birth of French soprano Isabelle Poulenard in Paris. 

1961 Death of Austrian pianist Wilhelm Backhaus, in Villach, Austria.

1965 Opera diva Maria Callas gives her last stage performance, singing Puccini's opera Tosca at Covent Garden.

1975 Death of Italian soprano Gilda Dalla Rizza.

1982 Death of American tenor Frederick Jagel.

1989 Death of Spanish composer Escriche Ernesto Halffter in Madrid.

1990 FP of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Clarinet Quintet. David Shifrin soloist at a Chamber Music Northwest concert in Portland, OR.

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June 22 in Music History

1611 Birth of composer Pablo Bruna.

1613 Birth of composer Lambert Pietkin.

1628 Death of English composer Thomas Simpson.

1684 Birth of Italian composer Francesco Onofrio Manfredini in Pistoia, Italy, 

1741 Birth of composer Alois Luigi Tomasini.

1742 Birth of composer Heinrich Gottfried Reichard.

1763 Birth of French composer Étienne-Nicola Méhul, in Givet, Ardennes. 

1824 Birth of composer Frederic Louis Ritter.

1826 FP of Rossini's "Adina, o Il Califfo di Bagdad" Lisbon.

1830 Birth of Austrian composer and pianist Theodor Leschetizky in Lancut. 

1842 FP of Thomas' "Le guerllero" Paris.

1859 FP of Offenbach's "Un Mari à la porte" Paris.

1866 Birth of English composer and organist Bruce Harry Steane in Camberwell, London.

1868 FP of Brahms' Piano Quintet in f, Op. 34 in Paris.

1871 FP of Richard Wagner's Kaiser March at a Theodore Thomas Orchestra concert at Central Park Garden in NYC.

1883 Birth of Mexican composer José Rolón in Jalisco, Mexico

1889 Birth of Scottish mezzo-soprano Denne Parker.

1893 Birth of Czech composer Osvald Chlubna in Brno. 

1899 Birth of German bass-baritone Jean Stern in Ludwigshafen. 

1900 Birth of German soprano Charlotte Boerner in Leipzig. 

1900 Birth of mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel, in St Petersburg Russia.

1904 Birth of Polish soprano Nîna Grudzinska.

1905 Birth of English composer Walter Leigh in London. 

1910 Birth of English tenor Sir Peter Pears in Farnham.

1911 Birth of French baritone Michel Dens in Roubaix. 

1911 Death of German-American composer, pianist, Bruno Oscar Klein.

1911 FP of Edward Elgar's Coronation March at the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in London.

1911 The world's largest organ, the Wanamaker Organ, was first played at its home in Philadelphia's John Wanamaker's Department Store. 1921 Death of American soprano Lucille Marcel. 

1925 Birth of German-born English conductor Hans-Hubert Schönzeler.

1926 Birth of composer Ruth Zechlin.

1926 FP of William Walton's Portsmouth Point Overture at Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in Zurich. 

1932 Birth of American composer Michael Horvit.

1933 Birth Czech conductor of Libor Pešek.

1934 Birth of American soprano Carol Ann Bayard.

1938 FP of Krenek's opera Karl Vat the New German Theater in Prague. 

1939 FP of William Bergsma's ballet Paul Bunyan in San Francisco.

1947 Death of American soprano Marion Weed. 

1949 Birth of French violinist Pierre Amoyal.

1951 Birth of American composer Gerald Levinson.

1953 Birth of American soprano Erie Mills in Granite City, IL.

1955 Birth of American composer Jeffrey Mumford in Washington, DC.

1969 FP of Alun Hoddinott`s Investuture Dances in London.

1973 Death of soprano Rita Melis. 

1974 Death of French composer Darius Milhaud.

1977 FP of Rota's "Napoli milionaria" Spoleto.

1989 Death of French composer Henri Sauguet.

1989 Death of tenor Anton Dermota.

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April 29 in Music History

1584 Birth of composer Melchior Teschner.

1636 Birth of German composer Esaias Reusner. 1660 Birth of composer Matthias Henriksen Schacht.

1712 Death of Spanish composer Juan Bautista José Cabanilles.

1720 Vivaldi leaves Pieta at Venice to go to Vienna.

1741 FP of Jommelli's "Ezio" Bologna. 1774 Birth of German soprano Anna Gottlieb.

1771 Birth of composer Matthaus Stegmayer.

1788 FP of Sacchini's "Arvire et Evelina" unfinished, produced posth., Paris.

1792 FP of the Marseillaise. National Guard Band in Strasbourg, France.

1828 Birth of soprano Virginia Boccabadati.

1832 Birth of singing Julius Hey in Irmelshausen.

1842 Birth of Austrian operetta composer Carl Millöcker in Vienna.

1846 Birth of German violinist Henry Schradieck in Hamburg.

1847 Birth of Danish flutist and conductor Carl Joachim Andersen. 1855 Birth of German cellist and writer Edmund van der Straeten.

1856 FP of Adam's "Les Pantins de Violette" Paris.

1859 Birth of Czech violinist František Ondříček.

1860 Birth of American composer Alfred George Robyn.

1857 Birth of composer Frantisek Ondricek

1862 Birth of composer Vittorio Mario Vanzo.

1870 Birth of German baritone Julius Raatz-Brockmann in Hamburg.

1870 Birth of Austrian march composer August Wilhelm Jurek in Vienna.

1872 Birth of Norwegian composer Eyvind Alnaes in Fredrikstad.

1873 Death of Italian bass Ignazio Marini.

1875 Birth of Swedish soprano Anna Hellstrom-Oscar in Stockholm.

1875 Birth of Russian tenor Modest Menzinsky in Novosilky Galicia.

1879 Birth of English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham.

1885 Birth of American composer Wallingford Riegger in Albany, GA.

1895 Birth of English conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. 1896 Birth of Rumanian-American composer Jacques Wolfe in Botoshan.

1897 FP of Battiatto's "Genesi" Parma.

1899 Birth of American composer Edward "Duke" Ellington in Washington.

1899 Birth of composer Karl Yngve Skold.

1901 FP of Bruneau's "L'Ouragan" Paris.

1902 Birth of American composer Theodore Ward Chanler in Newport, RI.

1904 Birth of Hungarian soprano Ota Horakova.

1906 Benefit concert at the Hippodrome in New York City for victims of the1906 San Francisco earthquake. Victor Herbert conducting.

1907 Birth of Italian tenor Tino Rossi.

1908 Birth of Czech soprano Ludmila Cervinkova in Prague.

1920 Birth of American composer Harold Shapiro in Lynn, MA.

1921 Death of Polish bass Adam Ostrowski.

1921 Death of composer Gustav Pick.

1923 FP of Leoncavallo's "Il premo bacio".

1926 FP of Bishop's "Aladdin" Drury Lane, London.

1926 Birth of Russian bass Jaroslav Horacek in Dehylov CSSR.

1927 FP of Vladimir Dukelsky's Zephyr et Flore ballet suite, Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. Composer aka popular music composer Vernon Duke.

1928 FP of N. Miaskovsky's Symphony No. 9, in Moscow.

1929 Birth of Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe in Launceston.

1929 Birth of Belgian tenor Alfons Von Goethem in Mortsel, Belgium.

1929 Birth of composer Vaclav Kucera.

1929 FP of Prokofiev's opera The Gambler novel, in Brussels.

1930 FP of Pizzetti's "Lo straniero" Rome.

1933 Birth of composer Darijan Bozic.

1935 Birth of composer Otto M Zykan.

1936 Birth of Indian conductor Zubin Mehta in Bombay, India.

1938 Birth of German bass Harald Stamm in Frankfurt.

1938 Birth of American tenor Kenneth Riegel in Womelsdorf, PA.

1942 Birth of American pianist Susan Starr in Philadelphia, PA.

1947 Birth of Russian tenor Vladimir Popov.

1948 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Orpheus by Ballet Society, in NYC. 1948 Birth of Australian pianist Leslie Howard in Melbourne. 1951 Birth of Finnish composer Eero Hammeenniemi. 1955 Birth of Canadian baritone Gino Quilco in NYC.

1962 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Eight Instrumental Miniatures based on his Five Fingers (1921). CBC Symphony conducted by the composer, in Toronto.

1968 Birth of American composer Timothy Melbinger.

1969 "Duke" Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House from President Richard Nixon on Ellington's 70th birthday.

1970 Birth of American composer Robert Paterson.

1971 FP of Reimmann's "Melusine" Schwetzingen.

1972 MET Opera debut of American soprano Betsy Norden in Mozart's [Barbarina] Le Nozze di Figaro.

1978 Death of Italian bass Giacomo Vaghi.

1979 Birth of American trombonist and composer Frank Bunger.

1979 First production by the Providence Opera Theater, Providence Rhode Island. La Traviata, with soprano Anna Moffo at Ocean State Auditorium, Providence RI.

1980 FP of John Williams' The Reivers from film score, for narrator and orchestra, at his first concert as music director of the Boston Pops. Burgess Meredith was narrator.

1983 Death of Italian tenor Adriano Tocchio.

1988 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' Strathclyde Concerto No. 1 for oboe and orchestra. Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer, with soloist Robin Miller at Glasgow's City Hall.

1988 Death of American tenor James McCracken. 

1990 FP of Philip Glass's chamber opera Hydrogen Jukebox  Philip Glass ensemble at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia.

1993 FP of Michael Torke's Run for orchestra. New York Philharmonic, Leonard Slatkin conducting.

1997 Death of Dutch composer Willem Hendrik Zwart.

2003 Death of French bass Jacques Mars aka Jacques Hochard.

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May 12 in Music History

1679 Birth of composer Giovanni Antonio Ricieri.

1736 FP of Handel's Atalanta Dedicated to the Prince of Wales at Covent Garden theater in London.

1739 Birth of composer Johann Baptist Wanhal.

1747 Death of German soprano Sophie Amalie Kayser. 

1751 Birth of composer Gaetano Manna.

1754 Birth of German composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister in Rottenburg.

1755 Birth of Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti.

1755 F. J. Haydn's love, Therese Keller, joins the convent. Heartbroken he conducts his compositions for the service.

1760 Birth of English baritone John Bannister in Deptford. 

1764 FP of Paisello's "Il ciarlone" Bologna.

1797 Birth of composer Johann Hermann Kufferath.

1804 FP of Spontini's "Le Petite Maison" Paris.

1822 FP of Donizetti's "La Zingara" Naples.

1823 FP of Herold's "Le Muletier" Paris.

1828 FP of Donizetti's "Alina, Regina di Golconda" Genoa.

1832 FP of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore in Milan.

1842 Birth of French composer Jules Massenet.

1845 Birth of French composer Gabriel Faure in Pamiers. 

1846 FP of Hartmann's "Little Christina" Copenhagen.

1861 Birth of Belgian composer Ivan Caryll.

1862 FP of David's "Lalla-Roukh" Paris.

1863 Birth of French composer and organist Charles Bordes.

1871 Death of French composer Daniel-François-Esprit Auber.

1872 Birth of Polish soprano Felice Kaschowska in Warszawa. 

1873 Birth of Polish tenor Antonin Viktor Lebeda in Prague. 

1876 FP of Massenet's "Bérangère et Anatole" Paris.

1877 Birth of Italian soprano Emma Carelli. 

1884 Death of Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana. 

1886 Birth of German composer Hermann Grabner.

1887 Birth of Hungarian conductor, violinist and composer Ferdinand Zsolt.

1888 Birth of Italian baritone Mariano Stabile in Palermo. 

1895 FP of Jarno's "Die schwarze Kaschka" Breslau.

1901 Birth of composer Hyam Greenbaum.

1903 Birth of English composer Lennox Berkeley at Boar's Hill, Oxford. 

1903 Birth of Swedish mezzo-soprano Gota Allard in Ornskoldsvik. 

1904 Birth of composer Eino Roiha.

1909 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Margaret Harshaw.

1910 Birth of Italian mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato.

1912 Death of Swiss mezzo-soprano Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli. 

1916 Birth of composer Ellis B. Kohs. 

1917 FP of Bela Bartók's ballet The Wooden Prince in Budapest.

1921 Birth of composer Edvard Mikcaeli Mirzoyan.

1922 FP of Lehar's "Frasqiuita" operetta, Vienna.

1926 FP of Shostakovich´s First Symphony, composed at the age of 19. Nicolai Malko conducting in Leningrad.

1931 Death of French composer Eugène Ysaÿe.

1932 Death of German tenor Andreas Dippel. 

1934 Birth of American soprano Jeanette Gloria La Bianca in Buffalo, NY. 

1936 FP of D. Kabalevski´s Piano concerto in Moscow.

1936 FP of Ralph Vaughan Williams' opera "The Poisoned Kiss" in Cambridge.

1937 FP of Walter Damrosch's The Man Without a Country at The MET in NYC.

1938 FP of W. Korngold´s The Adventures of Robin Hood. Motion picture score from film premiered by Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, CA. 1938 FP of A. Honegger's "Jeanne d'Arc au Bücher" dramatic oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake at the Grosser Musiksaalin Basel, Switzerland. 

1941 Birth of American harpsichordist and organist Anthony Newman.

1944 FP of Alberto Ginastera's Overture to the Creole Faust in Santiago, Chile.

1945 Birth of Spanish-Catalan tenor Dalmacio Gonzales in Olot. 

1946 Birth of German mezzo-soprano Doris Soffel in Hechingen. 

1946 FP of Prokofiev's "Voyna y Mir" Leningrad.

1949 FP of Goffredo Petrassi's one-act opera Il Cordavano. Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

1950 FP of Milhaud's "Bolivar" Paris with Jeanine Micheau.

1951 FP of Baranovic's "Nevjesta or Cetingrada" Beograd.

1952 Birth of American composer Scott Johnson in Madison, WI.

1954 Birth of American composer Dale Lyles.

1957 Death of American soprano Marie Rappold in LA, CA. 

1964 Birth of American composer Frank J. Oteri.

1970 Death of Chilean baritone Carlo Morelli.

1978 Death of Austrian bass-baritone Alois Pernerstorfer.

1980 FP of John Harbison's Concerto for Piano, soloist Robert Miller and the American Composers Orchestra, Gunther Schuller conducting at Alice Tully Hall in NYC.

1983 FP of Earle Brown's Sounder Rounds for orchestra, in Saarbrücken, Germany.

2002 FP of Steve Reich & Beryl Korot's multi-media presentation Three Tales, Hindenburg, Bikini, and Dolly by members of the Ensemble Moderne and Synergy Vocals, directed by Bradley Lubman at the Vienna Festival in Austria.

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March 24 in Music History

1654 Death of German composer Samuel Scheidt in Halle. 

1714 Birth of composer Carlo Giovanni Testori.

1721 Bach finishes his six Brandenburg concertos dedicated to Margrave Ludwig of Brandenburg. 

1732 Birth of composer Gian Francesco de Majo.

1739 Birth of composer Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart 

1740 Birth of American Moravian composer and instrument maker John Antes. 1749 Birth of composer Bernard Jumentier.

1762 Birth of composer Marcos Antonio da Fonseca in Portugal.

1762 Birth of Beethoven patron Count Ferdinand Waldstein. 1808 Birth of Spanish mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran in Paris. 

1815 Founding in Boston of the Handel and Haydn Society.

1815 Birth of soprano Sophie Löwe. 

1817 Birth of French opera composer Aimé Louis Maillart in Montpellier. 

1820 Birth of American hymn composer Francis Jane Fanny Crosby.

1820 FP of Rossini's Messa di Gloria at Church of San Ferdinando in Naples.

1821 Birth of German mezzo-soprano Mathilde Marchesi de Castrone in Frankfurt. 

1842 Birth of Austrian soprano Marie Gabrielle Krauss in Vienna. 1856 FP of Arditi's La Spia in New York City.

1857 Birth of Polish violinist Timothee Adamowski in Warsaw. 1860 FP of Joseph Joachim's Violin Concerto No.2 Op.11 in Hannover.

1867 Birth of Croatian-American composer Vincent Frank Safranek.

1868 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Frieda Langendorff. 

1881 FP of version two of Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra libretto revised by Boito at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

1884 Birth of composer Gino Marinuzzi.

1900 Birth of Russian-Ukranian tenor Ivan Kozlovsky. 1910 Birth of composer Jacques Chailley.

1911 Birth of Spanish conductor Enrique Jorda in San Sebastian. 1916 Death of Spanish composer Enrique Granados and his wife from German torpedoing of the 'Sussex' in the English Channel on return from NYC. 1921 Death of French composer Deódat de Sévérac at age 48, in Céret. 

1924 FP of Sibelius' Seventh Symphony, composer conducting in Stockholm. 1927 Birth of composer Janos Decsenyi.

1928 Birth of American pianist Byron Janis, in McKeesport, PA.

1930 Birth of composer Cristobal Halffter. 1930 Birth of American composer Warner Jepson in Sioux City, Iowa.

1932 Birth of French soprano Christiane Eda-Pierre.

1932 FP of Randall Thompson's Symphony No. 2, in, Rochester, NY.

1933 Birth of composer David Harries. Although of Welsh parents David Harries was born in Portsmouth, England. 

1935 FP of Samuel Barber's Music for a Scene from Shelly. 

1936 Birth of French soprano Luisa Bosabalian in Marseille. 

1936 Birth of American composer Fredrick Kaufman.

1937 Birth of English baritone Benjamin Luxon in Redruth, England. 

1941 FP of D. Shostakovich's incidental music for Shakespeare's King Lear at the Gorky Bolshoi Dramatic Theater, in Leningrad.

1944 Death of Italian mezzo-soprano Irene Minghini Cattaneo in air raid.

1946 Birth of French musicologist and conductor Jacques Chailley in Paris. 1949 FP of Andrzej Panufnik's Tragic Overture in NYC.

1954 Debut of American mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens at La Scala.

1978 Birth of English-American composer Martin Kennedy.

1982 Death of Russian-American baritone Igor Gorin in Tucson AZ. 

1984 FP of Philip Glass' opera Akhnaten at the Wurttemberg State Theater, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting, in Stuttgart.

2001 FP of Giuseppe Chihara's Songs of Love and Loss with Geraldine Walther, [Principal Violist of the San Francisco Symphony since the 1976-77 season] and the San Francisco Chamber Singers, directed by Robert Geary, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Berkeley, CA.

2002 Death of American soprano Beverly Bower.

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March 03 in Music History

1663 Birth of composer Nicholas Siret.

1671 FP of Cambert's opera Pomone at the Paris Opera.

1706 Death of German composer Johann Pachelbel in Nuremberg, Germany. 1766 Death of Vienna director of music, Kapellmeister, Gregor Werner leads to Franz Joseph Haydn's promotion to the position. Haydn was elevated to full Kapellmeister.

1767 Death of Italian composer Nicola Porpora. 

1786 Birth of French pianist Marie Bigot de Morouges. 1793 FP of F. J. Haydn's Symphony No. 101 The Clock. Haydn conducting at the Hanover-Square Concert Rooms in London.

1802 Birth of tenor Adolphe Nourrit in  Montpellier. 

1802 Publication of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in C#. 1824 Death of Italian composer and violin virtuoso Giovanni Battista Viotti at age 68, in London. 

1842 FP of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, Scotch at Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

1845 Birth of baritone Bogomir Korsov in St Petersburg. 

1853 FP of revision of Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4. Düsseldorf Municipal Orchestra, composer conducting by the composer. 

1854 Death of tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini in Bergamo.  

1857 Birth of French opera composer Alfred Bruneau in Paris.

1867 Birth of German-American composer Gustav Strube. 

1868 Birth of tenor Kurt Sommer in Altenglottern.

1869 Birth of English conductor Sir Henry Wood in London. 

1870 FP of Brahms Alto Rhapsody. Naumann conducting, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, soloist, in Jena.

1872 Birth of tenor Louis Treumann in Vienna.  1872 Birth of soprano Freida Felser in Munich. 

1874 Birth of mezzo-soprano Ada Crossley in Tarraville, Australia. 

1875 FP of Bizet's opera Carmen, at the Opera Comique, in Paris. 

1882 Birth of bass Pavel Ludikar in Prague.

1886 Birth of Scottish composer James Friskin in Glasgow. 

1889 Death of English composer and pianist Sydney Smith in London. 

1891 Birth of Spanish composer Federico Moreno Torroba in Madrid. 

1895 Birth of Dutch composer Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen in Rotterdam. 

1899 Birth of Peruvian composer Pablo Chavez Aguilar in Lima.

1899 FP of R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Strauss conducting in Frankfort.

1903 Birth of soprano Margarete Teschemacher in Cologne. 

1904 Birth of American composer Karl Ahrendt in Toledo, OH. 

1913 Birth of African-American composer Margaret Bonds. 

1918 Birth of American composer Frank Wigglesworth in Boston.  1918 FP of Bela Bartók's String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17. Waldbauer Quartet in Budapest.

1921 Birth of bass Miloslav Changalovich in Glamoc, Yugoslavia. 

1922 FP in US of concert version of Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring Leopold Stokowski conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra.

1925 Death of English composer Felix Henry Albert Godin.

1926 Death of mezzo-soprano Eugenia Mantelli. 

1929 Birth of tenor Robert Nagy in Lorain, Ohio. 

1932 Death of British-born German composer and pianist Eugène d'Albert.

1933 Death of bass Robert Radford. 

1934 Death of English composer and conductor Norman O´Neill in London.

1935 Final concert by Feodor Chaliapin, in NYC. 1937 Birth of American composer David W. Maves in Salem, Oregon.

1938 Birth of soprano Rachel Yakar in Lyons. 

1940 Birth of soprano Nellie Morpurgo, in Amsterdam.

1940 Birth of mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar in Philadelphia.

1941 Birth of Russian composer Vladislav Shoot in Vosnessensk.

1944 Birth of American composer Lee Holdridge in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

1945 Death of soprano Blanche Arral. 

1949 Birth of American soprano Roberta Alexander in Lynchberg, VA. 

1951 FP of Otto Luening's Kentucky Concerto. Louisville Orchestra, with the composer conducting.

1954 Birth of Ecuadorian composer Arturo Rodas in Quito.

1959 FP of Henry Cowell's Symphony No. 13 Madras in Madras, India.

1963 FP of G. C. Menotti's television opera Labyrinth on the NBC network.

1979 Death of soprano Kathe Heidersbach. 

1992 FP of Michael Torke's Chalk for string quartet. Balanescu Quartet at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.

1988 Death of Polish-Mexican composer and violinist Henryk Szeryng.

2002 FP of Steven Honigsberg's A Lament for solo cello at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

2003 Death of Italian composer Goffredo Petrassi in Rome. 

2005 FP of "Suite from Incidental Music to The Tempest", composed by Jean Sibelius and arranged by Ochsner, SONOS Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Erik Ochsner at Church of the Holy Trinity, NYC.

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January 25 in Music History

1459 Birth of Austrian composer Paul Hofhaymer in Radstadt

1683 FP of Alessandro Scarlatti's opera Pompey at Teatro Colonna in Rome.

1750 Birth of German composer Johann Gottfried Vierling in Metzels. 

1817 FP of Rossini's opera La Cenerentola, 'Cinderella', in Rome.

1829 Death of English composer, violinist, and violist William Shield. 

1834 Birth of composer Pablo Hernandez Salces.

1842 Death of bass Paolo Mandini.

1844 Birth of composer Frederick E. Kitziger.

1851 Birth of Flemish composer Jan Blockx in Antwerp.

1857 Birth of soprano Sophie Sedlmair in Hanover.

1858 Birth of Italian composer Giuseppi Radiciotti.

1866 Birth of baritone Antonio Scotti in Naples.

1880 Birth of Scottish composer Francis George Scott. 

1881 Birth of composer Gustave Frederic Soderlund. 

1886 Birth of German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler in Berlin.

1902 FP of Franz Schmidt's Symphony No. 1 in Vienna.

1904 Birth of Hungarian-born Dutch composer and pianist Geza Frid in Máramarossziget.

1905 FP of Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande in Vienna. Composer conducting.

1907 Birth of tenor Peter Klein in Cologne.

1908 Birth of German composer, guitarist Anton Stingl in Konstanz.

1909 FP of Richard Strauss' opera Elektra at the Hofoper in Dresden.

1910 Birth of Dutch composer Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck.

1911 FP of Victor Herbert's Natoma.

1911 Birth of American composer Julia Frances Smith in Denton, TX.

1913 Birth of Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski in Warsaw.

1917 Birth of mezzo-soprano Krystina Szczepanska in Nasielsk, Poland.

1921 Birth of American composer and conductor Alfred Reed in NYC.

1914 Birth of American conductor William Strickland in Defiance, Ohio.

1941 Birth of mezzo-soprano Hildegard Laurich in Halle.

1942 Birth of American choral composer Diane Thome.

1942 Death of tenor Desire Pauwels.

1945 Birth of American composer Russell Peck.

1945 MET Opera debut of American tenor Richard Tucker in Ponchielli's La Gioconda.

1946 FP of Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen in Zürich.

1950 Death of soprano Minnie Saltzman-Stevens.

1952 Birth of composer Peter Garland.

1954 Death of soprano Yvonne De Treville.

1957 FP of William Walton's Cello Concerto, Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch, Gregor Piatigorsky the soloist.

1960 Death of composer Rutland Boughton

1963 FP of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Symphony No. 8. West German Radio Symphony, Rafael Kubelik conducting.

1967 Death of baritone Ettore Bastianini.

1970 Death of mezzo-soprano Jane Bathori. 

1978 Death of baritone Imre Pallo.

1987 FP of Paul Schoenfield's Café Music for piano trio. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra concert, St Paul, MN.

2008 Death of English oboist Evelyn Barbirolli. 

2012 Death of Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund.