January 22 in Music History
1649 Birth of French composer Pascal Collasse in Reims.
1707 Birth of composer Carl Hock.
1709 Birth of composer Joseph Reipel.
1729 Birth of Italian composer Guiseppe Luigi Tibaldi.
1748 Birth of composer Lewis Edison.
1753 Birth of composer Peter Fuchs.
1756 Birth of Italian composer Vincenzo Righini.
1766 the Mozart children perform at the Oude Doelen FP of Wolfgang's London symphonies, K. 19, K. 22.
1775 Birth of Spanish composer Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garcia.
1779 Birth of Italian composer Stefano Pavesi.
1781 Birth of French composer, conductor and violinist Francois-Antoine Habeneck in Mezieres.
1815 Birth of composer Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger.
1824 Birth of Czech composer Josef Leopold Zvonar in Prague.
1842 Birth of composer Charles Henri Marechal.
1855 Birth of composer Ernst Kullak.
1859 FP of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1. Brahms was soloist in Hanover.
1861 Birth of composer Karel Stecker.
1861 Death of castrato Giovanni Battista Vellutti.
1870 Birth of French organist and composer Charles Arnold Tournemire in Bordeaux.
1871 Birth of composer Leon Jessel.
1876 Death of English hymn composer John Bacchus Dykes in Ticehurst.
1882 Birth of Argentinian composer, pianist Ernesto Drangosch.
1886 Birth of American composer John Joseph Becker in Henderson, Ky.
1887 Birth of mexican mezzo-soprano Fanny Anitua in Durango.
1887 FP of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta Ruddigore at the Svoy Theatre in London.
1889 Founding of the Columbia Phonograph Company, Washington, DC.
1894 FP of A. Glazunov's Symphony No. 4, in St.Petersburg.
1897 Birth of composer Josef Stanislav.
1897 Birth of American soprano Rosa Ponselle in Meriden, Connecticut.
1898 Birth of composer Alexander Abramsky.
1898 Birth of composer Gustav Paulson.
1900 Birth of composer Franz Salmhofer.
1901 Birth of German born Austrian composer Hans Erich Apostel.
1903 Birth of English composer Robin Humphrey Milford in Oxford.
1907 FP in USA of Richard Strauss' opera Salome by the MET in NYC. Critics called it a scandal. It was cancelled after this performance. Later staged at the Met in 1930.
1908 FP of Stravinsky's Symphony No. 1 in St. Petersburg.
1911 Birth of Belgian soprano Suzanne Danco in Brussels, Belgium.
1914 Birth of Greek composer Dimitris Dragatakis in Platanoussa, Epirus.
1914 Birth of soprano Emmy Loose in Karbiz, Czech.
1916 Birth of French composer Henri Dutilleux in Angers.
1920 Birth of American baritone William Warfield in West Helena, Arkansas.
1920 Birth of baritone Rudolf Jedlicka in Skalice, Czech.
1923 Birth of American composer Leslie Bassett in Hanford, CA.
1923 Birth of German composer Friedrich Zehm in Neusalz an der Oder, Silesia.
1923 Death of baritone Joachim Tartakov.
1926 Birth of Swiss flutist Aurele Nicolet in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
1927 Birth of baritone Hans Gunter Nocker in Westfalen.
1934 FP of first version of D. Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District at the Maliiy Opera Theater in Leningrad.
1935 Death of music theorist Heinrich Schenker in Vienna
1936 FP of Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik 'Music of Mourning' for Viola and String Orchestra. BBC memorial concert broadcast for King George V of England who died on 20 JAN 1935. Sir Adrian Boult conducting and Hindemith was soloist.
1948 Death of tenor Rudolf Jager.
1949 Birth of American composer, conductor Dean Drummond in Los Angeles, CA.
1953 Birth of South Korean conductor and pianist Myung-Whun Chung.
1964 Death of Philadelphia born composer Marc Blitzstein from brain injury received in a barroom fight in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Age 58.
1970 FP of Carlisle Floyd's opera Of Mice and Men in Seattle. Perhaps the most frequently performed American opera.
1980 FP, in concert, of John Williams' Cowboys Overture by the Boston Pops, conducted by the composer, his first year with the Pops. From Williams' film score The Cowboys, in Boston.
1982 Birth of tenor Miervaldis Jenes.
1982 Death of baritone Hans Fidesser.
1993 Death of soprano Patricia Brooks.
1997 Death of tenor Seth McCoy.
1998 FP of Bright Sheng's Postcards at the University of Minnesota. Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff conducting in Minneapolis, MN.
1999 Death of tenor Gabor Carelli.
2000 Death of tenor Carlo Cossutta.
2003 FP of Judith Weir's The Welcome Arrival of Rain. Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conducting in Minneapolis, MN.
2004 FP of Leo Brouwer's Concerto for Two Guitars. John Christopher Williams and Costas Kotsiolis, soloists with the Camerata Orchestra in Athens, Greece.
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