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1806 FP Beethoven's Violin Concerto w/o rehearsal and a sight by Franz
Clement, 1st violin of the Orch Theatre an de Wein.CD-Beethoven: Concerto for violin in D
1812 Birth of American composer William HAUSER near Bethania, North Carolina. d-Wadley, GA 15 SEP 1880.
1812 Death of French composer Michel Delaland in Chartres. aka as La Lande, de La Lande or Delalande, Michel-Richard Delalande
was a chorister at St Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris, church organist in service to Louis IV. Works include ballets and instrumental pieces as well as motets with instrumental accompaniment and other church music. b-1657.
1869 Death of Polish composer Julian (Jules) Fontana in Paris. b-1810.-
1875 Birth of Putnam Griswold Bass-Baritone
Born 23 Dec 1875 Minneapolis Died 26 Feb 1914
Debut as Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (Stanford) Premiere 1901
Teachers:- Jacques Bouhy, Franz Emmerich, Albert Randegger
Julius Stockhausen
Created Roman Governer in Mona (Parker)
Leonato in Much Ado about Nothing (Stanford)
Sang in premiere of Poia (Nevin)
1876 Birth of Edith Helena Soprano
Born 23 Dec 1876 Brooklyn Died 26 Nov 1956
Debut as Violetta in Traviata (Verdi) 1904
Teachers:- Alberto De Bassini, Giovanni Tagliapietra
1880 FP of Antonin Dvorák's oratorio Stabat Mater in Prague.CD-Dvorak - Stabat Mater / Goerke · M. Simpson · Olsen · N. Berg · Atlanta SO · R. Shaw
1883 Birth of Carolina White Soprano
Born 23 Dec 1883 Massachusetts Died 5 Oct 1961
Debut as Gutrune in Gotterdammerung (Wagner) 1908
Teachers:- Weldon Hunt, Paolo Longone, Sebastiani
1883 Death of
Jane Shirreff Soprano
Born 1811 Scotland Died 23 Dec 1883
Debut as Mandane in Artaxerxes (Arne)
Teacher :- Thomas Welsh
1893 FP of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel fairy tale opera, at the Hoftheater in Weimar.CD-Great Recordings Of The Century - Humperdinck: Hansel Und Gretel / Karajan, Schwarzkopf, Grummer, Metternich, et al
1899 Death of Marietta Piccolomini Soprano
Born 15 Mar 1834 Siena Died 23 Dec 1899
Created Lucrezia in Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) 1852
Teachers:- Mazzarelli, Pietro Romani, Raimondi
Pupils :- Giuseppina Pasqua
Created Almina in Almina (Campana)
1900 Birth of German baritone Karl SCHMIDT-WALTER in Gernersheim am Rhein. d-Kreuth, Oberbayerem, 14 JAN 1985. Debut 1921
Teachers:- Gustav Landauer, Hans Reinmar, Richard Trunk
Pupils :- Rudolf Hartmann, Tonny Landi, Bent Norup, Wolfgang Annheisser
1906 Birth of American composer and teacher Ross Lee FINNEY. in Wells, MN. d-1997.
1909 At The MET Opera in NYC, Alma Gluck first appears as the Happy Shade in
the Toscanini revival of Orfeo by Gluck starring Louise Homer.
1911 FP of Wolf-Ferarri's opera The Jewels of the Madonna, in Berlin.
1912 Birth of Josef Greindl Bass
Born 23 Dec 1912 Munich Died 16 Apl 1993
Debut as Hunding in Walkure (Wagner) 1936
Teachers:- Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Paul Bender
Pupil :- Caterina Ligendza
Sang in premiere of Antigonae (Orff)
1913 Birth of Dutch composer Hans HENKEMANS in The Hague. d-1995.
1919 FP of Carpenter's ballet The Birthday of the Infanta, based on an Oscar Wilde story, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Stock.
1920 Birth of Paul Franke Tenor
Born 23 Dec 1920 Boston
Debut as Youth in Amore dei Tre Re (Montemezzi) 1 Dec 1948
1921 FP of Carpenter's Krazy Kat Suite. Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Stock.
1924 FP of Nicolae Brean's opera Golan in Cluj, Romania.
1934 Birth of Italian conductor Claudio SCIMONE who founded ensemble I Solisti Veneti in 1959. Studied with D. Metropoulos.
1937 Death of Muriel Foster Mezzo-Soprano
Born 21 Nov 1877 Sunderland Died 23 Dec 1937
Debut 1896
Teacher :- Anna Williams
1942 Birth of German composer Friedrich SCHENKER in Zeulenroda, Thüringen, Germany.
1942 Death of Josef von Manowarda Bass-Baritone
Born 3 July 1890 Cracow Died 23 Dec 1942
Debut 1911
Teacher :- Otto Iro
Pupils :- Walter Hofermeyer, Alfred Poell, Ferdinand Burgmann
Julius Katona
Sang in premiere of Frau ohne Schatten (Strauss)
Bakchantinnen (Wellesz)
1946 Birth of Czech soprano Edita GRUBEROVA in Raca near Bratislava, Slovakia.
1946 Birth of Edita Gruberova Soprano
Born 23 Dec 1946 Bratislava
Debut as Rosina in Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) 1968
Teachers:- Ruthilde Boesch, Maria Medvecka
1948 Birth of Italian composer Giorgio LANZANI in Milan.
1949 ('45?) Birth of American electronic music composer and lecturer Maggi PAYNE.
1949 Birth of American composer Adrian BELEW.
1950 Death of Italian composer Vincenzo Tommasini in Rome. b-Rome, 17 SEP 1878.
1952 Birth of Danish composer Hans ABRAHAMSEN.
1952 FP of D. Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano which was part one of a two-part recital presented by pianist Tatyana Nikolayeva in Leningrad. CD-Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87
1957 Birth of American composer Stephen MELILLIO.
1960 Birth of American composer Elise KERMANI.
1961 Birth of Paul Nilon Tenor
Born 23 Dec 1961 West Yorkshire
Debut as Volano in Giasone (Cavalli) 1984
Teacher :- Frederic Cox
1963 Death of Czech composer Jan Fisher in Bratislava. b-Louny, North Bohemian Region, 15 SEP 1921.
1966 Death of Helmut Neugebauer Tenor
Born 1890 Posen Died 23 Dec 1966
Debut as Singer in Rosenkavalier (Strauss) 1911
Sang in premiere of Rauhensteiner Hochzeit (von Walterhausen)
Francois Villon (Noelte)
1975 Birth of American composer Peter GILBERT in Louisville, KY.
1977 Death of Lotte Schoene Soprano
Born 15 Dec 1891 Vienna Died 23 Dec 1977
Debut as Bridesmaid in Freischutz (Weber) 15 Sep 1915
Teachers:- Marie Brossement, Johannes Ress, Luise Ress
1979 Birth of Spanish composer Xabier OIANGUREN in Eskoriatza.
1982 Birth of Korean cellist Han-Na CHANG in Seoul, Korea.
1986 Death of Carmelo Maugeri Baritone
Born 16 July 1889 Catania Died 23 Dec 1986
Debut as Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) 1913
Teachers:- Matteo Adorno,Tartine
Sang in the premiere of Giulietta e Romeo (Zandonai)
Farsa Amorosa (Zandonai)
Cecilia (Refice)
Oro (Pizzetti)
Deresto Tentanto (Casella)
1989 The first of two public performances of Beethoven's Symphony No. Choral at the Philharmonie in West Berlin, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Perfomed by an international orchestra celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. The second performance was on Christmas Day at the Schauspielhaus in East Berlin.
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