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- 1527 Appointment of Adrian Willaert as choir master of San Marco in Venice.
- 1788 Death of English organist Joseph Gibbs in Ipswich. b-23 DEC 1699.
- 1792 Beethoven pays Franz Joseph Haydn for his first music
lesson, in Vienna.
- 1797 Birth of English pianist Lucy ANDERSON. First woman to solo with the Royal Philharmonic Society. Queen Victoria's piano teacher. d-24 DEC 1878.
- 1798 Birth of Carlo Cambiaggio Bass
Born 12 Dec 1798 Milan Died 13 April 1880
Debut in Elise e Claudio (Mercadante) 1829
Created Crispino in Crispino e la Comare (Ricci L & F)
Sang all the parts in premiere of Terno al Lotto (Frondoni)
- 1832 Death of Andrea Nozzari tenor
Born 1775 Bergamo Died 12 Dec 1832
Debut 1794
Teachers:- Giuseppe Aprile, Giacomo Davide, Petrobelli
Pupils :- Nikolay Ivanov, Antonio Poggi, Giovanni Battista Rubini
Created Earl of Leicester in Elisabetta Regina D'Inghilterra (Rossini)
Amenophis in Mose in Egitto (Rossini)
Roderigo in Donna del Lago (Rossini)
Otello in Otello (Rossini)
Paolo Erisso in Maometto II (Rossini)
Pyrrhus in Ermions (Rossini)
Rinaldo in Armida (Rossini)
Agoriante in Ricciardo e Zoraide (Rossini)
Antenoe in Zelmira (Rossini)
Alfredo in Alfredo il Grande (Donizetti)
Priam in Ecuba (Manfroce)
Alessandro in Alessandro nelle Indie (Pacini)
Amelio Holk in Vascello D'Occidente (Carafa)
Fayel in Gabriella di Vergy (Carafa)
Oreste in Ifigenia in Tauride (Carafa)
Giasone in Medea in Corinto (Mayr)
Ataliba in Cora (Mayr)
Ercole in Apoteosi D'Ercole (Mercadante)
Anacreonte in Anacreonte in Samo (Mercadante)
Atamare in Sciti (Mercadante)
Ernesto in Elisabetta D'Inghilterra (Pavesi)
- 1850 Birth of Germnan composer Car Wilhelm DRESCHER.
- 1857 Birth of American soprano Lillian NORDICA (Norton) in Farmington, ME.
- 1876 Birth of Emil Burian Baritone
Born 12 Dec 1876 Rakovnik 9 Oct 1926
Debut 1895
Teachers:- Franz Pivoda, Moritz Wallerstein
Pupils :- Arnold Flogl, Mi;oslav Jenik, Emanuel Kopecky,
Josef Krikava, Karel Leiss, Otakar Macha,
Jenik Niroslav, Lev Uhlir, Olga Valouskova
- 1881 Birth of Barbara Kemp Soprano
Born 12 Dec 1881 Cochem Died 17 Apr 1959
Debut as Priestess in Aida (Verdi) 1903
- 1882 Death of Hermine Rudersdorff Soprano
Born 12 Dec 1822 Ivanowsky Ukraine Died 26 Feb 1882
Debut 1841
Teachers:- Giulio Bordogni, De Micherout
Pupils :- Anna Drasdil, Isabel Fassett, Lilian Henschel, Emma Thursby
Mary Salter
- 1887 Birth of Swedish composer Kurt ATTERBERG in Göteborg. d-Stockholm, 15 FEB 1974.
- 1889 Birth of Czech pianist and musiclogist Vaclav STEPAN in Bohemia. Professor at Paris
Conservatory and an important promoter of contemporary music.
- 1891 FP of Brahms' Clarinet Quintet, Op 115, at the Singakademie,
by Richard Mühlfeld and Joachim Quartet in Berlin.
CD-Mozart / Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
1894 Birth of French pianist Marcelle Fanny Soulage in Lima, Peru. d-1970.
1900 Birth of Arthur Carron Tenor
Born 12 Dec 1900 Swindon Died 10 May 1967
Debut 1929
Teacher :- Florence Easton
Created Philip Nolan in Man Without a Country (Damrosch)
Midas in Phoebus and Pan (Bach J S)
1902 FP of Rimsky-Korsakov
s opera Kashchey the Immortal in Moscow.CD-Rimsky-Korsakov: Kashcey the Immortal
1906 Birth of German tenor Ludwig SUTHAUS. d-9 Sep 1971
Debut as Walther in Meistersingers (Wagner) 1928
Teachers:- Julius Lenz, Hans Grahl
1909 FP of Anatole Liadov's Kikimora in St. Petersburg.CD-Liadov: The Enchanted Lake & Other Orchestral Works
1909 Death of German composer Carl Lorens.
1910 Birth of Louis Noguera Baritone
Born 12 Dec 1910 Algeria 8 Mar 1984
Pupils :- Andree Esposito, Marc Vento
Sang in premiere of Jorgen de Danemark (Challen)
1911 Birth of American composer Thomas CANNING in Brookville, PA. Composition teacher at West Virginia University. 1980 the first annual Thomas Canning Composition Award. d-Morgantown, WV 4 OCT 1989.
1920 FP of Ravel's La Valse at a Lamoureux Concert in Paris.CD-Ravel: Shéhérazade; Ma Mère l'Oye; La Valse
1920 FP of Wolfgang Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt both in Hamburg and Cologne. CD-Korngold - Die tote Stadt / Leinsdorf
1921 Birth of Toni Blankenheim Bass-Baritone
Born 12 Dec 1921 Cologne
Debut as Figaro in Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) 1945
Teachers:- Res Fischer, Dieter Jacob, Paul Lohmann
Created Katos in Prometheus (Orff)
Arden in Arden Must Die (Goehr)
Juhani Puntii in Birthday (Aho)
Ring Master in Smile at Foot of Ladder (Bibalo)
Sang in premiere of Erben und Sterben (Roth)
Kommt Davon (Krenek)
Prince von Homburg (Henze)
Goldene Bock (Krenek)
Zerrissene (Von Einem)
Belagerungszustand (Keleman)
Candide (Constant)
Grune Kakadu (Mohaupt)
Prometheus (Orff)
1926 FP of Dimitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata No. 1 in Leningrad. CD-Shostakovich: Piano Sonatas & 24 Preludes
1929 Birth of Japanese composer and pianist (Ms.) Toshiko AKIYOSHI in Manchuria.
1929 FP of Constant Lambert's Rio Grande
(The Brazilian river, not the Texas/Mexican Rio Bravo) for piano and orchestra in Manchester, England.CD-Constant Lambert: Summer's Last Will and Testament / Shimell, Burgess, Lloyd-Jones
1931 Birth of Italian pianist and teacher Maria TIPO.
1932 FP of Benjamin Britten's Phantasy Quartet No. 2 for oboe and strings. Leon Goossens and the International String Quartet in London.CD-Britten: Music for Oboe; Music for Piano
1933 Death of American composer Theodore Moses Tobani in NYC. Age 79. Composed
Hearts and Flowers in 1893.
1934 Birth of Romanian composer Gheorghe COSTINESCU.
1935 FP of Charles Haubiel's Portraits in Chicago.
1936 Birth of American music instructor and composer Alfred 'Corky' FABRIZIO.
1937 Birth of English organist and conductor Philip LEDGER.
1938 Birth of American composer Joel CHADABE.
1938 Dodd, Mead and Company, NY Publishers, issue Oscar Thompson's one
volume music reference The International Cycopedia of Music. The largest
of it's kind. BOOK-International Encyclopedia Of Music And Musicians, The (Music Book Index)
1943 Birth of composer Michèle REVERDY in Alexandra, Egypt.
1946 FP of Philadelphia born composer Vincent Persichetti's The Hollow Men in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.CD-Cowell, Persichetti and MacDowell
1948 Birth of Scottish baritone Donald MAXWELL in Perth
Debut as Morton in Mary Queen of Scot (Musgrave) 1977
Teacher :- Joseph Hislop
1948 Birth of American composer Anthony Walter ADAMS.
1948 FP of Hans Walter Henze's Violin Concerto, in Baden-Baden.
1951 Birth of Israeli pianist Daniel ADNI.
1956 Death of Italian composer Lorenzo Perosi in Rome. b-Tortona, 20 DEC 1872.
1956 Death of Amalie Bobkova Soprano
Born 11 Oct 1874 Turnov Died 12 Dec 1956
Debut as Marguerite in Faust (Gounod) 24 Aug 1900
Teachers:- Marie Petzldove-Sittova, Ludmilla Phohaska-Neumann
1959 Death of Marcella Craft Soprano
Born 11 Aug 1880 Indianapolis Died 12 Dec 1959
Debut 1902
Teachers:- Charles Adams, A Guagni, F Motting, Jacques Stockgold
1968 Birth of American composer Charles COLEMAN in NYC.
1968 Death of German composer Siegfried Reda in Mülheim. b-Bochum, 27 JUL 1916.
1970 Birth of Scottish composer David HORNE.
1976 Death of Hans Kramer Bass
Born 20 May 1906 Mainz Died 12 Dec 1976
Teachers:- Otto Ito, Walter Lorenz
Created John Ball in Wat Tyler (Bush)
1978 Birth of Turkish composer Evren GENIS in Ankara.
1993 Death of Joan Cross Soprano / Teacher of Singing
Born 7 Sep 1900 London Died 12 Dec 1993
Debut as Cherubino in Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Teachers:- Peter Dawson, Dawson Freer, Gustav Holst
Pupils :- Heather Begg, April Cantelo, Marie Collier, John Gibbs
Victoria Godfrey, David Hillman, John Kitchener, Yvonne Minton
Anna Pollak, Ramon Remedios, Pauline Tinsley, Elizabeth Parry
Margaret Curphey, Ava June, Barbara Rendell, Suzanne Steele
Created Lady Billows in Albert Herring (Britten)
Elizabeth I in Gloriana (Britten)
Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes (Britten)
Female Chorus in Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Mrs Grose in Turn of the Screw (Britten)
Duenna in Duenna (Gerhard)
Sang in premiere of Take A Life (Searle)
1993 Death of Mary Jarred Mezzo-Soprano
Born 9 Oct 1899 Brotton Yorkshire Died 12 Dec 1993
Debut 1929
Pupil :- Sybil Michelow
1997 FP of Kevin Volans' Cello Concerto. Wen-Sinn Yang with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in Munich.
1999 Death of American pianist and composer Leo Smit in Encinitas, CA. b- Philadelphia, 12 JAN 1921.
2001 FP of Henry Brant's Pulitzer Prize winning [2002] Ice Field for orchestra. San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
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