January 24 in Music History
1473 Death of German blind organist-composer Conrad Paumann.
1639 FP of Cavalli's opera Le Nozze di Teti e Peleo 'The Marriage of Thetis and Peleus' at the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice.
1666 Death of German composer Johann Andreas Herbst, at age 77.
1705 Birth of Italian soprano-castrato Carlo Farinelli in Andria, Apulia.
1712 Birth of Prussian Crown Prince Frederick aka Frederick the Great, composer and statesman, King of Prussia.
1758 Birth of Austrian composer Johann Chrysostomus Drexel
1760 Death of soprano Lavinia Fenton.
1774 Birth of German composer Karl Moser.
1776 Birth of German composer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman in Konigsburg.
1805 Death of Italian composer Giacomo Conti, at age 50.
1812 Death of Italian composer Eligio Celestino, at 72
1828 Birth of composer Karol Studzinski.
1829 Birth of American composer and pianist William Mason in Boston, MA.
1835 FP of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Puritani at the Théatre-Italien in Paris.
1851 Death of Italian composer Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, at age 76, in Majolati.
1858 Birth of tenor Joseph-Valentin Duc.
1859 Birth of Russian composer Alexander Alexandrovich Ilyinsky in Selo.
1875 FP of Camille Saint Saën's Danse Macabre, in Paris.
1883 Death of German composer Baron Friedrich von Flotow, at age 70, in Darmstadt.
1884 Death of German composer Johann Christian Gebauer, at 75.
1885 Birth of bass Grigory Pirogov in Novoselki, Ryazan.
1885 FP of P. I. Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite No. 3, in St. Petersburg.
1889 Birth of Russian composer Vladimir Scherbachov.
1891 Birth of tenor Jaro Dworsky in Konigsberg.
1894 Birth of baritone Jaro Prohaska in Vienna.
1901 Death of composer and conductor Simon Hassler, at 68.
1904 Death of German composer Franz Coenen, at 77.
1905 Birth of mezzo-soprano Elena Nicolai in Cerevo, Bulgaria.
1906 FP of S. Rachmaninoff's two one-act operas The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini at the Bolshoi Theater, in Moscow.
1911 Birth of English oboist Evelyn Barbirolli.
1911 Death of composer Carl Eilhardt, at 67.
1913 Death of German-American composer Gustav Luders, at 47.
1913 Birth of American composer and pianist Norman Dello Joio in NYC.
1915 Birth of Czech composer Vitezslava Kapralova in Brno.
1918 Birth of Austrian composer Gottfried von Einem in Bern, Switzerland.
1919 Birth of American composer, pianist and conductor Leon Kirchner in Brooklyn, NY.
1922 FP of William Walton's Facade, with Dame Edith Sitwell reading her poems.
1922 FP of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 5, in Copenhagen.
1923 Birth of Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt in Bergen.
1924 Birth of American organist and composer David Craighead in Strasburg, PA.
1924 Birth of WCLV, Cleveland, music commentator Klaus George Roy. Also music writer and composer.
1925 Birth of counter-tenor John Ferrante in Hartford, Connecticut.
1926 Debut of conductor Otto Klemperer in U.S. conducting the New York Symphonic Society Orchestra.
1930 Death of baritone Mario Sammarco.
1931 Birth of Danish organist and composer Ib Norhlom in Copenhagen.
1932 Birth of German composer Werner Steger.
1936 Birth of American clarinetist and composer Daniel Goode in NYC.
1940 Death of American composer Charles Whitney Coombs in Orange, NJ.
1940 Death of baritone Emiel Van Bosch.
1946 FP of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, by the New York Philharmonic.
1952 FP of Hilding Rosenberg's Symphony No 6 Sinfonia Semplice in Gayle, Sweden.
1953 Birth of American composer Wendy Mae Chambers
1953 Birth of Russian violinist and conductor Yuri Bashmet.
1956 Birth of composer Akemi Naito.
1957 FP of Walter Piston's Wind Quintet, by the Boston Woodwind Quintet at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
1959 FP of D. Shostakovich's operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki at the Moscow Operetta Theater.
1965 Death of mezzo-soprano Elvira Casazza.
1969 Death of composer Pauline Hall, at age 78.
1981 FP of John Harbison's Violin Concerto, soloist Rose Mary Harbison and the Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra, Craig Smith conducting at Emmanuel Church in Boston.
1982 Death of tenor Bjarne Buntz.
1986 Death of bass-baritone Kenneth Schon.
1991 FP of George Perle's Piano Concerto No. 1, with San Francisco Symphony conducted by David Zinman, with pianist Richard Goode.
1999 Death of American choral director and conductor Robert Shaw in New Haven, CT.
2004 FP of Jeffery Cotton's Symphony for Strings. Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra also performing two Mozart piano concertos, with William Wolfram as soloist, in Jordan Hall, Boston, MA.
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