1730 Death of Andre Philidor in Driux, music librarian to Louis XIV. b-Versailles, c. 1647.
1744 Birth of German bassoonist and composer Johann Gottlieb SCHWENCKE to
family of musicians in Saxony. d- Hamburg, 27 OCT 1822.
1748 Birth of German kapellmeister and composer Joseph SCHUSTER in Dresden. d-Dresden, 24 JUL 1812.
d- Dresden, 24 JUL 1812. He studied music with his father, a court musician,
and with J.G. Schürer.
1842 Birth of German composer Reinhold BECKER.
1861 (July 12?) Birth of Russian composer Anton ARENSKY in Novgorod. d-Finland, 25 FEB 1906.
1861 Death of Catherine Hayes Soprano
Born 25 Oct 1825 Ireland Died 11 Aug 1861
Debut as Elvira in Puritani (Bellini) 10 May 1845
Teachers:- De Micherout, Manuel Garcia Jnr, Giorgio Ronconi, Sapio
1862 Birth of American composer Carrie Jacobs BOND in Janesville, WI. d-Glendale, CA 28 DEC 1946. I Love You Truly and other sentimental songs.
1868 Death of Norwegian composer Halfdan Kjerulf in Grefsen. b-Christiania, 15 SEP 1815.
1872 Death of American composer, organist and conductor Lowell MASON in Orange, NJ. b-Medfield, MA, 8 JAN 1792.
1873 Birth of American composer J. Rosamond JOHNSON in Jacksonville, FL. d-1954.
1900 Birth of Russian composer Alexander MOSOLOV in Kiev. d-
Moscow, 12 JUL 1973.
1905 Birth of Bruce Dargavel Baritone
Born 11 Aug 1905 Briton Ferry Died 1 Nov 1985
Teacher :- E Herbert Caesari
1909 Birth of French composer and organist Gaston LITAIZE, blind, born in Menil-sur-Belvitte.
1914 Death of Pol Plancon Bass
Born 12 Jun 1854 Fumay Died 11Aug 1914
Debut Joseph in Cinq Mars (Gounod) 1 Dec 1878
Teachers:- Louis-Gilbert Duprez, Giovanni Sbriglia
Pupil :- Paul Charles Rene Landormy
Created Garrido in Navarraise (Massenet)
Comte de Gormas in Cid (Massenet)
Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing (Stanford)
Sang in premiere of Elaine (Bemberg). Debut as Seneschal in Jean de Paris (Boieldieu) 1857
Pupil :- Rita Fornia
1919 Birth of French violinist Ginette NEVEU in Paris. d-Azores, 28 OCT 1949, in a plane crash. Poulenc re-wrote the final movement
of the Violin Sonata he had written for her.
1920 Birth of American pianist William MASSELOS in Niagra Falls,
NY. d-23 OCT 1992.
1929 Birth of Welsh composer Alun HODDINOTT in Bargoed, Wales.
1929 Birth of Cora Canne-Meyer Mezzo-Soprano
Born 11 Aug 1929 Amsterdam
Debut 1951
Teachers:- Re Koster, Jan Keizer, N Perugia, Alfred Jerger
Created Marina in Pineda (Sauger)
Nerine in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (Martin)
Sang in premiere of Francois Villon (Dresden)
Mere Coupable (Milhaud)
1933 Birth of Hungarian-Swiss conductor and pianist Tamas VASARY in Debrecen.
1942 Composer George Antheil and movie actress Hedy Lamarr received a United States patent for the use of radio-controlled missiles that could be used against the Germans. Their process used a frequency-hopping radio encryption technique called spread-spectrum technology used today in cell phone transmissions. Tony Rothman, author of Everything's Relative: And Other Fables from Science and Technology , says the importance of the patent is largely a product of urban legend.
1943 FP of Richard Strauss' Horn Concerto No. 2. Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Karl Böhm, with Gottfried von Freiburg, horn, at the Salzburg Festival.
1945 Birth of Barbara Conrad Mezzo-Soprano
Born 11 Aug 1945 Pittsburg Texas
Created Clotilde in Bayou Legend (Still)
1949 Death of Austrian born composer Karl Weigl in NYC at age 68. b-Vienna, 6
FEB 1881.
1952 Death of Riccardo Martin Tenor
Born 18 Nov 1874 Kentucky Died 11 Aug 1952
Debut as Faust in Faust(Gounod) Oct 1904
Teachers:- Franklin Cannone, Beniamino Carelli, Jean de Reszke
Leon Escalais, Vincenzo Lombardi, Giovanni Sbriglia
Enrico Caruso, Oscar Saenger
Created Quintas in Mona (Parker)
1957 FP of Paul Hindemith's opera, The Harmony of the World the composer conducting in Munich.
1966 Birth of Argentinian composer Juan María SOLARE in Buenos Aires.
1968 FP of Darius Milhaud's Music for New Orleans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of New Orleans in 1966, it was rejected. Aspen Festival in Colorado.
1969 Death of Miriam Licette Soprano
Born 9 Sep 1885 Chester Died 11 Aug 1969
Debut as Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly (Puccini) 1911
Teachers:- Jean De Reszke, Mathilde Marchesi, Vincenzo Sabbatini
1974 Death of Maria Maksakova Mezzo-Soprano
Born 8 Apr 1902 Astrachan Died 11 Aug 1974
Debut as Amneris in Aida (Verdi) 1923
Teacher :- Maximilian Maksakov
1984 FP of S. Rachmaninoff's opera Monna Vanna Act 1 orchestrated by Igor Buketoff, posthumously, at a concert performance in Saratoga, NY. In 1907 Rachmaninoff left it unfinished.
1985 FP of Han Werner Henze's realization of Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse 'The Return of Ulysses' at the Salzburg Festival.
1988 Death of French opera designer, producer and director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, in Munich at 56. b-Paris, 19 FEB 1932. Carmina Burana.
1995 Death of Karel Berman Bass
Born 14 Apr 1919 Jindrichuv Hradec Died 11 Aug 1995
Debut 1946
Teachers:- Eugen Fuchs, Apollo Granforte
Created Charpeau in Lake Ukerve (Macha)
Dr Galen in White Disease (Andrasovan)
Sang in premiere of Invincible (Kalas)
2003 FP of Judith Weir's The Voice of Desire for voice and piano, with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and pianist Julius Drakem at an afternoon BBC Proms concert at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
2003 FP of Mark O'Connor's Violin Concerto No. 6 Old Brass. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Kenneth Sillito, composer soloist at an evening BBC Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall in London.
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