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- 1557 Birth of Italian composer Girolamo TROMBETTI in Bologna. Brother of composer Ascanio Trombetti, 1544-1590.
- 1562 Death of Flemish composer and music school founder, Adrien Willaert
in Venice.
- 1604 Birth of composer Ambrosius REINER.
- 1637 Birth of composer Bernardo PASQUINI in Massa da Valdinievole, Lucca. d-Rome, 21 NOV 1710.
- 1648 Birth of Italian composer Giovanni Maria CAPELLI.
- 1732 The John Rich theater opens at Covent Garden in London.
- 1734 Handel's 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 3, published in London.
- 1772 Birth of Viennese music patron Prince Josef LOBKOWITZ in Roudnice nad Labem. Supported
Beethoven who dedicated the Triple Concerto, the Eroica and fifth
Symphony to the prince. d-Trcaron, ebo Ncaron, 15 Dec 1816.
- 1783 The Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London. To become the Royal Opera House.
- 1811 Death of Geramn composer Ignaz Spangler, at 54.
- 1820 Birth of German conductor, violinist and pianist Karl Anton ECKERT in Pottsdam. d-Berlin, 14 OCT 1879.
- 1823 Death of German composer Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, at 79.
- 1825 Birth of Malvina Garrigues Soprano
Born 7 Dec 1825 Copenhagen Died 8 Feb 1904
Debut in Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer) 1841
Teacher :- Manuel Garcia Jnr
Pupils :- Heinrich Gudehus, Rosalie Miller
- 1829 Death of German composer Johann Christoph Kienlen, at 45.
- 1834 Death of composer Ludwig Schuncke, at 23.
- 1834 FP of Chopins's Eb Polonaise in a concert presented by Hector Berlioz at The Conservatory, in Paris.
CD-Chopin: Favorite Piano Works
1835 Birth of French monk and musicologist Dom Joseph POTHIER.
1839 Death of composer Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, at 69. b-1770.
1840 Birth of German organist, pianist, and critic Herman GOETZ in Konigsberg. d- Hottingen,
Switzerland 3 DEC 1876.
1841 Death of composer Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, at 83.
1842 FP by The Philharmonic Society of NY, which became the New York
Philharmonic Orchestra. In the Apollo Rooms at 410 Broadway. Program
included Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Weber's Oberon overture.
1849 Birth of German-American music publisher Carl FISCHER in
Buttstadt. d- NYC 14 FEB 1923.
1857 Birth of composer Nicola van WESTERHOUT.
1858 Birth of music patron Carl STOECKEL in New Haven, CT. Sponsored
Litchfield County festivals and build the music shed at Norfolk, CT.
d-Norfolk, CT 1 NOV 1925.
1861 FP of Brahms's Handel Variations. Pianist was Clara
Schumann, in Hamburg.CD-Brahms: Handel Variations/Six Piano Pieces/Two Rhapsodies
1863 Birth of English composer John Ebenezer WEST.
1863 Birth of Italian composer Pietro MASCAGNI in Livorno. d-Rome, 2 AUG 1945.
1865 Birth of American soprano Sybil SANDERSON in Sacramento. Noted for
wide vocal range. d-Paris, 15 MAY 1903.
Debut as Manon in Manon (Massenet) 1888
Teachers:- Mathilde Marchesi, Jules Massenet, Giovanni Sbriglia,
Anne De La Grange
Created Thais in Thais (Massenet)
Esclarmonde in Esclarmonde (Massenet)
Phryne in Phyrne (Saint-Saens)
1871 Death of Nicolas-Prosper Levasseur Bass
Born 9 Mar 1791 Bresles 7 Dec 1871
Debut as Pasha in Caravane da Cairo (Gretry) 1813
Teacher :- Pierre-Jean Garat
Pupil :- Leonard Hermann-Leon
Created Zacharias in Prophete (Meyerbeer)
Don Alvaro in Viaggo a Reims (Rossini)
Carlo Belmonte in Margherita D'Anjou (Meyerbeer)
Balthazar in Favorita (Donizetti)
Marcel in Huguenots (Meyerbeer)
Cardinal Brogni in Juive (Halevy)
Bertram in Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer)
Walter Furst in William Tell (Rossini)
Tutor in Comte Ory (Rossini)
Dom Juan di Silva in Dom Sebastien de Portugal (Donizetti)
1873 FP of Saint-Saens symphonic poem Phaeton in Paris.CD-Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
1873 FP of Tchaikovsky's symphonic fantasia The Tempest, in Moscow.CD-Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Tempest/Symphony No. 2
1875 Birth of Dutch pianist and accompanist Coenraad V. BOS. d - Chappaqua,
NY, 5 AUG 1955.
1876 Birth of German musiclogist Ludwig SCHIEDERMAIR, Beethoven archivist.
1879 Birth of Bohemian-born American operetta composer Rudolf FRIML, in Prague. (Charles) Rudolf (Pseudonym Roderich Freeman). d-Los Angeles, CA 12 NOV 1972.
1879 FP of Hector Berlioz opera La Prise de Troie 'The Capture of Troy', Acts 1 & 2 of Les Troyens 'The Trojans', posthumously at the Théatre du Châtelet; in Paris.
1887 Birth of Austrian-American composer and pianist Ernst TOCH in Vienna.
In
Hollywood from 1937. d-Los Angeles, 1 OCT 1964.
1889 Birth of composer Heathcote Dicken STATHAM.
1889 FP of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta The Gondoliers at the Savoy Theatre in London.CD-Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers
1890 FP of Tchaikovsky's opera Pique Dame in St. Petersburg.CD-Pytor Il'ich Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
1894 Birth of Maria Hussa Soprano
Born 7 Dec 1894 Vienna 19 Apr 1980
Debut 1917
Teachers:- Elise Elizza, Arnold Greve
1896 Birth of composer Juan Maria Thomas SABATER.
1898 Opening of the building of the Opera-Comique, in Paris.
1898 FP of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, in Moscow.CD-Rimsky-Korsakov: Mozart and Salieri; Glinka: I recall the wonderful moment
1899 Death of composer Antoni Katski.
1903 FP of the first Irish opera with Gaelic words,
Muirgheis, in Dublin. Composer O'Brien Butler Whitehall, died in the sinking of the
'Lusitania'.
1906 Birth of German soprano Elisabeth HONGEN in Gevelsburg
Debut as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Verdi) 1933
Teachers:- Hermann Weissenborn, Ludwig Horth
Created Bebett in Julietta (Erbse)
Sang in premiere of Zauberinsel (Sutermeister)
1910 Birth of English and latin American conductor Edmundo ROS.
1910 Birth of march composer and band conductor Richard Franko GOLDMAN in NYC. d-1980.
1910 Birth of Dutch composer Gerard HENGEVELD in Kampen. d-Bergen, 28 OCT 2001.
1912 Birth of Welsh composer and conductor Daniel Jenkyn JONES in Pembroke. d-1993.
1917 Death of Austrian violinist and composer Leon Minkus at age 91. b-Vienna, 23 MAR 1826.
1918 Birth of composer Jorunn VIDAR.
1921 Birth of composer Arne DORUMSGAARD.
1924 FP of Carl Ruggles' Men and Mountains in NYC.CD-Ives: Three Places in New England; Ruggles: Sun-treader
1926 Birth of composer Wolfgang LUDEWIG.
1927 Birth of composer Vlastimir PERICIC.
1927 Birth of Welsh contralto Helen WATTS.
1928 Birth of composer Raymond Henry Charles WARREN.
1930 Birth of composer Richard FELCIANO.
1935 Birth of Richard Cross Bass
Born 7 Dec 1935 Faribault Minnesota
Debut as Donato in Maria Golovin (Menotti) 1958 (World Premiere)
Pupils :- Jonathan Hays, Ding Gao, John Kramar,
Jochen Schmeckenbecher
Created Postman in Scarf (Hoiby)
Amery Dexter in Minutes to Midnight (Ward)
De Hoffman in Madame Adare (Silverman)
Jaggers in Miss Havisham's Fire (Argento)
Mikhail Mikhailovitch in Natalia Petrovna (Hoiby)
1935 Birth of French composer Jean-Claude CASADESUS.
1936 Birth of Breda Kalef Mezzo-Soprano
Born 7 Dec 1936 Belgrade
Debut as Mercedes in Carmen (Bizet) 1960
Teacher :- Maria Carbone, Zlata Gjungenac
1937 Death of German pianist Adele Aus Der OHE in Berlin. b-Hanover, 11 DEC 1864.
1939 FP of William Walton's violin concerto, Artur Rodzinski conducting, Jascha Heifetz soloist with Cleveland Orchestra.CD-Barber/Walton/Bloch: Violin Concertos
1941 Death of composer Cecil Forsythe, at 71, in NYC.
1942 Birth of composer Jonathan D. KRAMER.
1944 Birth of American organist Daniel CHORZEMPA. CD-Franck: Symphony in D Minor/Saint-Saëns: Organ Concerto .
1944 Death of Julius Von Raatz-Brockmann Baritone
Born 29 April 1870 Hambourg Died 7th Dec 1944
Pupils :- Paul Kotter, Hans Hermann Nissen
Arno Schellenberg, Else Schurhoff
1945 Birth of Mexican pianist and teacher Graciela Agudelo MURGUIA in Mexico City.
1948 Birth of Frederick Burchinal Baritone
Born 7 Dec 1948 Wichita
Teachers:- H John Lennon, Daniel Ferro, Joshua Hecht
Created Gamba in Lord Byron (Thomson)
Henri Gatz in Great Gatsby (Harbison)
1948 Death of composer Godfrey Turner, at 35.
1949 Birth of American computer music composer John BISCHOFF.
1950 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Kathleen KUHLMANN inSan Francisco
Debut as Maddalena in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1979
1959 Birth of American composer Ronald CALTABIANO in NYC.
1960 Birth of American composer Matthew SHIPP.
1960 Death of Lila Robeson Mezzo-Soprano
Born 1880 Cleveland Died 7 Dec 1960
Debut as Ortrud in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1911
Teachers:- C S Burnham, S C Ford, Isadore Luckstone, Oscar Saenger
Pupils :- Grace Hoffmann, Thelma Votipka, Kathryn Nussbaum
1962 Death of Soprano Kirsten Flagstad in Oslo, age 67. See the Kirsten Flagstad Museum . Debut as Nuri in Tiefland (D'Albert)
Teachers:- Gillis Bratt, Ellen Schytte-Jacobsen, Albert Westwang
Inge Isene
Pupils :- Nina Carina, Kari Lovaas
1965 Birth of composer Carlyle SHARPE in Brownsville, TX.
1975 FP of Lou Harrison's Symphony No. 2 Elegiac, the Oakland Youth Symphony, Denis de Coteau cond.
1986 Death of Victor De Narke Bass
Born 1930 Corrientes Argentina Died 7 Dec 1986
Debut 1952
1999 FP of Gunther Schuller's Saxophone Sonata, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, NYC.
2004 Death of American conductor Frederick FENNELL in Florida. b-Cleveland, OH, 2 JUL 1914. Obituary
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