1599 Death of Italian madrigal composer Luca Marenzio in Rome. b-Cocaglio, c.1554.
1615 Birth (bap.) of English organist and composer Christopher GIBBONS in London. Son of Orlando. Chapel Royal, Westminster Abbey and Charles II. d-London, 20 OCT 1676.
1741 Handel starts work on his Messiah and finishes in 24 days (14 SEP).
1804 Death of Valentin Adamberger Tenor
Born 6 July 1743 Munich Died 22 Aug 1804
Teacher :- Giovanni Valesi
Created Belmonte in Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
Vogelsang in Schauspieldirektor (Mozart)
Scipio in Clemenza di Scipione (J C Bach)
1822 FP of CARAFA: "Le recluse" Paris (1822).
1827 Birth of waltz composer Josef STRAUSS in Vienna. Son of Johann and elder brother of Viennese family of composers of light music. d-Vienna, 21 JUL 1870.
1830 Birth of Angiolina Bosio Soprano
Born 22 Aug 1830 Turin Died 13 Apr 1859
Debut as Lucrezia in I Due Foscari (Verdi) 1846
Teacher :- Ettore Cattaneo
1831 Birth of Louise Dustmann Soprano
Born 22 Aug 1831 Aachen Died 2 Mar 1899
Debut 1848
Teacher :- Heinrich Proch
Pupils :- Lola Beeth, Ellen Brandt-Forster, Thila Plaichinger
1831 Birth of English tenor and organist W. H. CUMMINGS in Sidbury. Set Hark! The Herald Angels Sing to a Mendelssohn cantata and became popular Christmas Hymn. d-London, 6 JUN 1915.
1862 Birth of French composer Achille-Claude DEBUSSY at St.Germain-en-Laye. d-Paris, 25 MAR 1918.
1868 Birth of American violinist Maud POWELL in Peru, Illinois. d-Uniontown, PA 8 JAN 1920.
1873 Birth of Italian composer Antonio SAVASTA in Catania. d-Napoli, 2 DEC 1959.
1874 Birth of English composer and organist Edward Cuthbert BAIRSTOW in Huddersfield. d-York, 1 MAY 1946.
1878 Birth of Johnson, Edward (t) (1878-1959) Can. (80) b. Guelph, Ontario, Aug.
22, 1878; d. Toronto, Apr. 20, 1959: MET: Début: Nov. 16, 1922,
[Avito] Amore de tre Re, 12 seasons (1922-35) 163 perf. 23 works. Debut as Andrea Chenier in Andrea Chenier (Gounod) 1912
Teachers:- Vincenzo Lombardi, Louise von Feilitsch
Created Aethelwold in King's Henchman (Deems Taylor)
Sir Gower Lackland in Merry Mount (Hanson)
Peter Ibbetson in Peter Ibbetson (Deems Taylor)
1879 Birth of French cellist Gerard HEKKING in Nancy. Cousin of cellist Andre Hekking. d-Paris, 5 JUN 1942.
1881 Birth of Canadian-born American tenor Edward JOHNSON in Guelph, Ontario. 1935 General Manager of the MET, NYC. d-Guelph, 20 APR 1959.
1896 Birth of Amerighi-Rutili, Vera (s) (1896-1952) It. b. Pisa , Aug. 22, 1896;
d. May 13, 1952. Studied at the Florence Conservatory. Début: Aida. CG, (July 1919). 1921, Lisbon, where, at the San Carlo she sang La
Gioconda and toured as Norma in several
Adriatic cities, Ancona and Trieste, and ended at Palermo. 1922-24 sang Norma at Teatro Lirico in Milan, and appeared in La Gioconda in several
Northern Italian cities, Mantua, Pisa and a tour of the Veneto. At Turin she
appeared at the Teatro Chiarella, La Gioconda; Bologna's Comunale,
[Brunnhilde] in Siegfried and at Pisa she sang Verdi's Il Trovatore,
for the first time. 1947, sang the Gotterdammerung Brünhilde
at Trieste, and with these performances her opera career came to an
end. Debut as Aida in Aida (Verdi) July 1919
Pupil :- Umberto Borso
1909 Birth of American vocal music composer and pianist Sergius KAGEN. Taught at Juilliard in NYC. d-1964.
1920 Birth of Ariè, Raphael (bs) (1920-1988) Bulgarian. b. Sofia, Aug. 22, 1920;
d. Switzerland, Mar. 17, 1988:
1922 Birth of Israeli violinist Ivry GITLIS in Haifa.
1922 Death of Sofia Scalchi Mezzo-Soprano
Born 29 Nov 1850 Turin Died 22 Aug 1922
Debut as Ulrica in Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) 1866
Teacher :- Virginia Boccabadati
Pupil :- Rita Fornia
1933 Birth of American composer James CIERNIA in St. Paul, MN.
1933 Birth of Hale, Robert (bs/b) U.S. b. Aug. 22, 1933: MET: Début: Jan. 17,
1990 [Dutchman] Der Fliegende Holländer, 4 seasons (19 89-90, 92-94,
95-96) 20 perf., 6 works. Debut 1966
Teachers:- Ludwig Bergmann, Boris Goldovsky, Gladys Miller, Chloe Owens
Orcenith Smith
Created Ximenes de Cisneros in Juana la Loca (Menotti)
1937 Birth of Santelli, Giovanna (s)
1944 Birth of German tenor Peter HOFMANN in Marienbad. Hofmann was also a rock star, matinee idol, television performer,
decathlon champion, paratrooper, horseback rider, motorcycle racer. MET: Début: Jan. 24, 1980 [Lohengrin] Lohengrin, 7 seasons (1979-
80, 81-82, 83-88) 29 perf., 4 works.
1947 Birth of Phyllis Cannan Soprano
Born 22 Aug 1947 Paisley
Debut in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1974
Teacher :- Josephine Veasey
Created Inanna in Second Mrs Kong (Birtwistle)
1951 Death of Georg Maikl Tenor
Born 4 Apr 1872 Zell an der Ziller Died 22 Aug 1951
Debut as Tamino in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1899
Teachers:- Anton Hromada, Bernhard Pollini
1967 Birth of American composer Louis KOBRA in Citrus Heights, CA.
1967 Death of Paola Novikova Soprano / Teacher of Singing
Born 1896 Moscow Died 22 Aug 1967
Pupils :- Helen Donath, Nicolai Gedda, Wilma Lipp, George London
Kerstin Meyer, Irmgard Seefried, Tatiana Angelini-Johin
Alan Lindquist
1968 FP of Hamilton Birtwistle's opera Punch and Judy at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
1980 FP of Michael Tippett's Triple Concerto, for violin, viola, cello and orchestra. The London Symphony, Sir Colin Davis conducting, in London.
1982 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' Image, Reflection, Shadow at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland.
2000 Death of Rina Gigli Soprano
Born 30 Jan 1916 Naples Died 22 Aug 2000
Debut as Suzel in L'Amico Fritz (Mascagni) 1936
Teacher :- Beniamino Gigli (father)
Sang in premiere of Jura (Gabriel)
2002 Death of Richter, Ernst-Theo (b) (1949-2002) Ger. b. 1949; d.
Dresden
2002 FP of Loris Cheknavariyan's opera based on the Persian epic Rostam and Sohrab at Milad Hall in Teheran. It commemorated the 1000th anniversary of the birth of poet Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi, on whose epic the opera was based.
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