#Alfred V. Fedak

[globalworship]

Pentecost: organ solo + art

For Pentecost, here's a video that combines drawings and paintings from the 12th to 19th-centuries with Alfred V. Fedak's organ solo  "Improvisation on Veni Creator Spiritus."

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A PDF score download is available for purchase at https://www.selahpub.com/OrganKeyboard/OrganTitles/160-513-ImprovVeniCreator.html

Veni Creator Spiritus (Come, Creator Spirit) is a hymn believed to have been written by Rabanus Maurus in the 9th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veni_Creator_Spiritus

For all 6 verses in Latin with English translation, see the link above

[todayclassical]

July 04 in Music History

1603 Death of Belgian composer Philip de Monte in Praha, Czech Republic.

1623 Death of English composer William Byrd at Stondon Massey in Essex.  1694 Birth of French composer Louis-Claude Daquin in Paris. 

1742 Handel finishes his secular oratorio Semele after suffering a stroke days earlier.

1762 Birth of composer Marco Santucci.

1769 Birth of composer Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis.

1793 Birth of composer Franz Xaver Pechacek.

1802 Birth of composer Joseph Labitzky. 

1826 Birth of American Song composer Stephen Collins Foster. 1827 Opening of Niblo's Gardens, American concert hall, at Broadway and Prince Street in NYC.

1829 Birth of German-American composer Hermann Kotzschmar. 

1831 FP of America with words My Country, tis of thee by Samuel Francis Smith. At Park Street Church, Boston. 1840 Birth of American composer James McGranahan.

1842 Birth of composer Gyula Erkel.

1850 Birth of Norwegian composer Ole Olsen in Hammerfest. 

1854 Birth of German composer and conductor Heinrich Zöllner in Leipzig. 

1863 Birth of Austrian-born American soprano Emma Juch in Vienna.

1873 Death of tenor and composer Jozef Poniatowski in Rome. 

1874 Death of tenor Eduard Mantius.

1876 Birth of Italian mezzo-soprano Tina Maria Elisabetta Alasia in Turin. 

1876 For the American centennial celebration, the city of Philadelphia, PA paid Richard Wagner $5,000 for rights to use music from Lohengrin at the World Fair.

1883 Birth of composer Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg.

1886 Birth of German composer Heinrich Kaminsky in Tiengen. 

1887 Death of French composer Félix Le Couppey in Paris. 

1889 Birth of Russian-American pianist Samuel Chotzinoff. 1896 Birth of composer Adolf Hallis.

1899 Birth of Russian bass Alexander Pirogov in Novoselki Ryazan.

1899 Birth of Scottish bass Roy Henderson in Edinburgh.

1900 Death of American tenor Charles R. Adams.

1903 Birth of Belgian composer, organist Flor Peeters.

1904 Birth of American composer Dante Fiorillo. 

1904 Birth of composer Artur Malawski.

1908 Birth of American baritone Arthur Newman in St. Louis. 

1910 Birth of Welsh-American composer and pianist Alec Templeton.

1911 Birth of American oboist and conductor Mitch Miller. 1911 Birth of Italian composer Franco Ferrara in Palermo. 

1911 Birth of Italian conductor Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Bologna. 

1913 Birth of American bass Leon Lishner in NYC. 

1913 FP of Holbrooke's trilogy "The Cauldron of Anwyn"  II "Dylan, Son of Wave" London.

1916 Birth of Italian bass Carlo Badioli in Bagnara di Romagna.

1921 Birth of Hungarian violinist and orchestra leader Tibor Varga.

1923 FP Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite for Military Band at the Royal Military School of Music in London.

1924 Birth of Czech soprano Libuse Domaninska in Brno-Kral. 

1925 Birth of American mezzo-soprano and Avant guard composer Cathy Berberian in Attleboro, MA. 

1931 Death of American soprano Emma Thursby. 

1936 Death of Italian tenor Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana. 

1939 Birth of soprano Donat Zdislawa in Posen. 

1942 Death of German soprano Elisabeth Feuge.

1944 FP of Sauguet's "La Gageure imprévue" Paris.

1948 Birth of American soprano Clamma Dale in Chester, PA. 

1953 Birth of American organist and composer Alfred V. Fedak.

1957 Birth of Greek soprano Jenny Drivala in Kálamata.

1964 FP of Walter Piston's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

1983 FP of David Amram's Song for Sitting Bull cello and orchestra. William Da Rosa and the Long Island Philharmonic, Christopher Keene conducting.

1986 Death of Belgian composer and organist Flor Peeters. 

1986 US Marine Band performs for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, recreating the band's orginal performance under John Philip Sousa for the original dedication ceremonies 100 years before in NYC.

1992 Death of Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla in Buenos Aires.

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Liked on YouTube: “Fight the Good Fight” by Alfred V. Fedak. https://youtu.be/kbaeyLTKJ-Q