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- 1618 Death of Italian singer and composer Giulio Caccini in
Florence. b-Tivoli, 1545.
Teacher :- Giovanni Animuccia, Scipione Delle Pane
Pupils :- Giovanni Magli, Francesco Rasi, Settimia Caccini (daughter)
Francesca Caccini (daughter)
- 1665 Death of Italian composer Tarquinio Merula. b-1594 or 1595.
- 1674 FP of Pallavicino's opera Diocletian at the Teatro Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.
- 1694 Death of Domenico Dal Pane Castrato
Born ?1630 Rome Died 10 Dec 1694
Teacher :- A M Abbatini
- 1717 J. S. Bach becomes Kapellmeister at Cothen.
- 1764 Birth of French composer Louis-Sebastien LEBRUN in St. Marcellin. d-Paris, 27 JUN 1829.
- 1770 Death of German court organist and composer Theophil Gottlieb Muffat at age 80.
- 1805 Death of German composer Friedrich Franz Hurka, at 43. b-19 FEB 1762.
- 1813 Birth of Italian composer Errico PETRELLA in Palermo. d-Genoa, 7 APR 1877.
- 1822 Birth of Belgian composer Cesar Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert FRANCK in Liège, Belgium. d-Paris, 8 NOV 1890.
- 1823 Birth of composer and pianist Wilhelm KUHE.
- 1823 Birth of German composer Theodor KIRCHNER in Neukirchen. d-Hamburg, 18 SEP 1903.
- 1825 FP of Boieldieu's opera La Dame
Blanche, in Paris, at Opera-Comique.
CD-Boieldieu - La Dame blanche / Blake, Massis, Delunsch, Fouchécourt, Naouri, Brunet, Minkowski
1826 Death of tenor and composer Benedikt Emanuel Schack, at 68.
Born 7 Feb 1758 Mirotice Died 10 Dec 1826
Debut in Frascatana (Paisiello) 1786
Teacher :- Carl Frieberth
Created Tamino in Zauberflote (Mozart)
1832 Birth of German composer Gustav PICK.
1833 Death of French violinist and composer Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, at 79. b-4 MAR 1754.
1854 FP of only oratorio by Hector Berlioz, L'Enfance du
Christ in Paris.CD-Berlioz - Sacred Music (L'Enfance du Christ · Requiem) · Symphony Dramas (Roméo et Juliette · La damnation de Faust) · Orchestral Songs (Les nuits dété · Lélio · La mort de Cléopâtre) / Sir Colin Davis
1868 Birth of composer Louis Victor SAAR. d-1937.
1872 Birth of composer Johann Baptist THALLER. d-1952.
1873 Birth of Maria Koubatova Soprano
Born 10 Dec 1873 Prague 4 Dec 1913
Debut 1893
Teachers:- Franz Pivoda, Maria Setova-Petzold
1877 Death of composer Federico Ricci, at 68.
1886 FP of Chadwick's Symphony No. 2. Boston Symphony, composer conducting in Boston, MA. CD-Chadwick: Symphonies 2&3
1887 Birth of American composer Mildred Cooper COUPER.
1888 Birth of Russian soprano Oda SLOBODSKAYA, in Vilnius. d-1970.
1888 Death of composer Mariano Obiols, at 79. d-26 NOV 1809.
1885 Birth of Hungarian composer, organist and music historian, Janos HAMMERSCHLAG. Article, Hungarian harpsichord playing.
1885 Birth of composer Mario VARVOGLIS. d-31 JUL 1967.
1893 Birth of composer Walter REIN.
1894 Birth of German composer Paul DESSAU in Hamburg. d-East Berlin, 28 JUN 1979.
1895 FP of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Christmas Eve Napravnik conducting in St. Petersburg.CD-Rimsky-Korsakov: Golden Cockerel Suite; Tsar Saltan Suite; Chrismas Eve Suite
1896 FP of Modeste Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov Orchestrated and completed by Rimsky-Korsakov version, at the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.CD-Modest Moussorgsky: Boris Godounov (1869 Version & 1872 Version) - Valery Gergiev / Kirov Opera & Orchestra
1898 FP of Messager's opera comique Veronique, in Paris.
1899 Death of Hans Feodor Von Milde Baritone
Born 13 April 1821 Petronell Died 10 Dec 1899
Debut 1845
Teachers:- Manuel Garcia Jnr, Franz Hauser
Created Telramund in Lohengrin (Wagner)
1901 Birth of Noel Eadie Soprano
Born 10 Dec 1901 Paisley 11 Apr 1950
Debut as Woglinde in Ring (Wagner)
Teacher :- Esta D'Argo
1908 Birth of French composer and organist Olivier MESSIAEN in Avignon. d-Paris, 27 APR
1992.
1908 FP of Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No. 4 Poem of Ecstacy. Also on program, with Russian Symphony
Orchestra, violinist
Mischa Elman making his debut playing Tchaikovsky Violin
Concerto, in NYC.CD-Scriabin: Symphonies 2, 3 and 4 (Poem of Ecstasy)
1909 Birth of Otakar Kraus Baritone / Teacher of Singing
Born 10 Dec 1909 Prague Died 28 July 1980
Debut as Amonasro in Aida (Verdi) 1935
Teachers:- Fernando Carpi, Konrad Wallerstein
Pupils :- Marco Bakker, Matthew Best, Roger Bryson, Ian Caddy
Ian Comboy, Elisabeth Connell, Stafford Dean,
Christian Du Plessis, Roderick Earle, Clifford Grant
David Hillman, Gwynne Howell, Neil Howlett, Anthony James
Roderick Kennedy, Malcolm King, John Kitchiner
Michael Langdon, Robert Lloyd, Lois McDonall, Barry Mora
Geoffrey Moses, Terence Sharpe, John Rawnsley
Donald Stephenson, Jonathan Summers, John Tomlinson
Norman Welsby, Peter Coleman Wright, Christopher Lackner
Created Nick Shadow in Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
King Fisher in Midsummer Marriage (Tippett)
Sheriff in Martin's Lie (Menotti)
Tarquinius in Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
1909 FP of Mussorgsky's Song of the Flea with
Chaliapin and orchestral accompaniment, in St. Petersburg.
1910 Death of composer Pablo Hernandez Salces, at 76. b-25 JAN 1834.
1910 FP of Puccini's opera Girl of the Golden West, at the MET in NYC
with Toscanini conducting and Caruso, Destinn and Amato.CD-Puccini: La fanciulla del West
1913 Birth of American composer Morton GOULD in Richmond Hill, NY. Also a pianist, conductor and ASCAP
president. d-Orlando, FL 21 FEB 1996.
1918 First appearance in America by S. Prokofiev. Played his
Second Piano
Concerto with Russian Symphony Orchestra, in NYC.
1919 Birth of Sesto Bruscantini Baritone
Born 10 Dec 1919 Civitanova
Debut as Colline in La Boheme (Puccini) 8 Aug 1946
Teacher :- Luigi Ricci
Pupils :- Alfonso Antoniozzi, Giampero Ruggeri
1919 Birth of composer Sven-Eric Emanuel JOHANSON.
1921 Death of Hungarian composer Viktor Jacobi, at 38 in NYC, USAmerica. b-Budapest, Hungary, 1883.
1922 Birth of Dimiter Uzunov Tenor
Born 10 Dec 1922 Stara Zagori Bulgaria Died 11 Dec 1985
Debut as Werther in Werther (Massenet) 1947
Teachers:- L Prokopova, Christo Brambarov
1922 Birth of American composer and professor emeritus and former dean of the University
of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Allen Dwight SAPP. d-Kenwood, Cincinnati, OH 4 JAN 1999. Obit.
1923 Birth of composer Abelardo QUINTEROS.
1926 Birth of Norwegian composer and Grieg specialist, Dag SCHJELDERUP-EBBE.
1928 Birth of Vera Little Mezzo-Soprano
Born 10 Dec 1928 Memphis
Debut as Preziosilla in Forza Del Destino (Verdi) 1950
Created Beroe in Bassarids (Henze)
Begonia in Junge Lord (Henze)
1930 Death of Robert Watkin-Mills Bass-Baritone
Born 5 Mar 1856 Gloucester Died 10 Dec 1930
Debut 1885
Teacher :- Edwin Holland
1931 FP in USAmerica of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's overture to The
Taming of the
Shrew. Philharmonic Symphony, Toscanini conducting.Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Atto II); Shrew
1936 FP of Ernst Toch's Pinocchio overture. Otto Klemperer conducting
the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.CD-Toch: Piano Concerto No. 1, Peter Pan
1936 FP of David Diamond's Psalm for orchestra, in Rochester, N.Y.CD-David Diamond: Symphony No. 3; Psalm, Kaddish
1937 Birth of American composer and arranger Don SEBESKY in Perth Amboy, NJ.
1937 FP of William Grant Still's Sympnony in g. Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting. CD-Still/Dawson/Ellington: Symphony No. 2/Negro Folk Symphony/Harlem
1938 Birth of Michael Rippon Bass-baritone
Born 10 Dec 1938 Coventry
Teacher :- Ralph Meanley
Created Merlin in Lancelot (Hamilton)
Blazes in Lighthouse (Maxwell Davies)
Antipholus of Ephesus in Errors (Wilson-Dickson)
Sang in premiere of Martyrdom of St Magnus (Maxwell Davies)
1938 Birth of Russian conductor Yuri TEMIRKANOV in Nalchik.
1938 Death of Italian composer Mario Pilati, at 35 in Naples. b-Naples, 1903.
1939 Death of composer Wilhelm Grosz, at 45.
1950 FP of B.A. Zimmermann's Violin Concerto, in Baden-Baden, Germany.
1952 Birth of American soprano Julianne BAIRD in Stateville NC
Debut in Pastor Fido (Handel) 1980
Teachers:- Walter Berry, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Maksak Ono Toribara
1952 Birth of Martine Dupuy Mezzo-Soprano
Born 10 Dec 1952 Marseilles
Debut as Eurydice in Carneval de Venise (Campra)
1954 Humanitarian, physician and Bach organist Dr.
Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize.
1956 Birth of American composer Clark SUPRYNOWICZ.
1958 Birth of English pianist Kathryn STOTT.
1959 Birth of Russian composer Zlata RAZDOLINA in St. Petersburg.
1959 Death of Giovanni Inghilleri Baritone
Born 9 Mar 1894 Porto Empedocle Died 10 Dec 1959
Debut as Valentin in Faust (Gounod) 1919
Pupils :- John Dobson, Franco Ghitti, Victoria Godfrey
Created Demogorgon in Donna Serpente (Casella)
Giulio Cesare in Giulio Cesare (Malipiero)
1959 Debut at MET Opera of Christa Ludwig in Marriage of
Figaro.
1963 FP of Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 Kaddish at Frederic Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv. Israel Philharmonic and choirs conducted by the composer, speaker Hannah Rovina and mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel.CD-Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"
1965 Death of American pianist and composer Henry Dixon Cowell,
Aeolian Harp, at 68, in Shady, N.Y. Inventor of Rhythmicon. b-Menlo Park, NJ 11 MAR 1897.
1966 Death of composer Boris Koutzen, at 65.
1967 Death of composer Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere,
at 71. b-17 MAY 1896.
1969 Death of Italian composer Franco Capuana, at 75. b-Fano, 29 SEP 1894.
1969 Death of American film composer Leigh Harline, at 62.
1980 Birth of American violinist Sarah CHANG in
Philadelphia.
1982 Death of composer Roy Webb, at 94.
1987 Death of Russian-American violinist Jascha Heifetz, at age 86, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
b-Vilnius, Lithuania, part of Russia, 2 FEB 1901.
1994 Death of Dutch pianist and music director George G. F. van Renesse, at 85. b-21 FEB 1909.
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