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1640 Birth of Italian composer Paolo LORENZANI in Rome. d-Rome, 28 OCT 1713.
1649 FP of Francesco Cavalli's Opera l Giasone at Teatro Cassiano, in Venice.
1677 FP of Lully's opera Isis in Paris.
1681 Italian composer Giovanni Legrenzi takes position of music director at St. Mark's in Venice.
1690 FP of Alessandro Scarlatti's opera La Statira in Teatro Tordinona, Rome.
1740 Death of Italian composer Antonio Lotti in Venice. b-Venice, c.1667.
1857 Birth of David Bispham Bass
Born 5 Jan 1857 Philadelphia Died 2 Oct 1921
Debut as Duke in Basoche (Messager) Nov 1891
Teachers:- Edward Giles, Giovanni Lamperti, Albert Randegger
William Shakespeare, Luigi Vannuccini
Pupils :- Nelson Eddy, Reinald Werrenrath
Created Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing (Stanford)
William in Harold (Cowen)
Sang in premiere of Paoletta (Floridia)
1868 Birth of Oscar Saenger Baritone / Teacher of Singing
Born 5 Jan 1868 Brooklyn N Y Died 20 Apr 1926
Teachers:- Jacques Bouhy
Pupils :- Paul Althouse, Rudolf Berger, Curtis, Bernice de Pasquali,
Mabel Garrison, Orville Harrold, Allen Hinckley, Kathleen Howard
Josephine Jacoby, Mary Jordan, Queena Mario, Leon Rains
Marie Rappold, Lila P Robeson, Henry Scott, Warrum
Joseph Regneas, Joseph Bernstein, Florence Hinkle, Elsie Baker
Riccardo Martin, Sara Anderson,
1868 FP of final version of Max Bruch's Violin Concerto in g, Op. 26 with Karl Martin Rheintahler conducting and Joseph Joachim soloist, in Bremen. CD-Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1/Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
1871 Birth of American composer Frederick Shepherd CONVERSE in Newton MA. d-1940.BOOK-Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871-1940)
1872 Birth of Otakar Marak Tenor
Born 5 Jan 1872 Ostrihom Hungary Died 2 July 1939
Debut as Faust in Faust (Gounod) 1 Feb 1899
Teachers:- O Parsova-Zikesova, Zikes
Created Gennaro in Jewels of Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari)
1873 Birth of Karl Jorn Tenor
Born 5 Jan 1873 Riga Latvia Died 19 Dec 1947
Debut as Lionel in Martha (Flotow) 1896
Teachers:- Elizabeth Jacobs, Johannes Ress, Schutte-Harmsen, Lohse
Eugen Robert Weiss
1875 Birth of Alberto Garcia Baritone / Teacher of Singing
Born 5 Jan 1875 London Died 10 Aug 1946
Teachers:- Bataille, Bucine, Gustave Garcia(father), Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Pupils :- Keith Falkner, Leon Lishner, Oscar Natzke, Sameul Rabin
Grace Mary Ball
1875 Opening of the Paris Opera building.
1880 Birth of Russian composer and pianist Nicolai MEDTNER in Moscow. d-London, 13 NOV 1951.
1881 Birth of Russian composer Nicolai ROSLAVETZ. d-23 AUG 1944. He is known as the Russian Schoenberg as he used his own system of 'Synthetic chords'.
1884 FP of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta
Princess Ida in London.CD-Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida
1888 Death of Austrian composer and pianist Henri HERZ in Paris. b-Vienna, 6 JAN 1803.
1891 Death of Emma Abbott Soprano
Born 9 Dec 1850 Chicago Died 5 Jan 1891
Debut as Marie in Figlia del Reggimento (Donizetti) 2 May 1876
Teachers:- Seth Abbott(father), Enrico Delle Sedie, Achille Errani
Mathilde Marchesi, Antonio Sangiovanni,Pier-Francoise Wartel
1894 Birth of Gaston Micheletti Tenor
Born 5 Jan 1894 Tavaco Corsica Died 20 May 1959
Debut as Faust in Faust (Gounod) 1922
Teachers:- Jacques Isnardon, Leon Melchissedec
Sang in premiere of Joueur de Viole (Laparra)
Chevalier de Mauleon (Fournier)
Savati le Terrible (Bousquet)
Angelo (Bruneau)
1904 Birth of Austrian born American violinist Erica MORINI (Siracusano)
in Vienna.
1904 Birth of Marie Pixova Mezzo-Soprano
Born 5 Jan 1904 Prague
Debut as Puck in Oberon (Weber) 9 Oct 1929
1915 Birth of Uta Graf Soprano
Born 5 Jan 1915 Dusseldorf Died 17 Feb 1995
Debut 1938
Teachers:- Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Ria Ginster
Pupils :- Barbara Blanchard
1915 Death of Jeanne Gerville-Reache Mezzo-Soprano
Born 26 Mar 1882 Orthez France Died 5 Jan 1915
Debut as Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) 20 Dec 1849
Teachers:- Jean Criticos, Rosine Laborde, Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Created Genevieve in Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy)
Katherine in Juif Polonaise (Erlanger)
1917 Birth of English composer Reginald Smith BRINDLE.
Composed for guitar. Studied with Pizzeti in Rome. d-9 SEP 2003 at age 86. Guardian Unlimited Obituary
1920 Birth of Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti MICHELANGELI in Brescia.
d-1995.
1924 Birth of Doris Jung Soprano
Born 5 Jan 1924 Centralia Illinois
Debut as Vitellia in Clemenza di Tito (Mozart) 1955
Teachers:- Winifred Cecil, Julius Cohen, Luise Helletsgraber, Emma Zador
1929 Birth of Italian conductor and composer Romulus FRANCESCHINI.
1930 Birth of American composer Frederick TILLIS
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1930 Birth of Hungarian born British conductor Laszlo HELTAY.
1931 Birth of Austrian pianist Alfred BRENDEL in Wiesenburg, Moravia.BOOK-Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation With Martin Meyer
1931 Birth of choreographer Alvin AILEY. d-1 DEC
1981.BOOK-Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey
1932 Birth of Franco Ghitti Tenor
Born 5 Jan 1932 Brescia
Debut 1959
Teachers:- Vladimiro Badiali, Giovanni Inghelleri, Domenico Malatesta
Barra Caracciolo Gennaro
Sang in premiere of Pozzo e il Pendolo (Bettinelli)
1932 FP of Marurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in D for the left hand, commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, in Vienna.CD-Gershwin/Ravel: Piano Concertos
1941 FP of Mark Blitzstein's opera No for an Answer in NYC.
1942 Birth of Italian pianist Maurizio POLLINI in Milan.
1949 Birth of Wilhemenia Fernandez Soprano
Born 5 Jan 1949
Created Medea in Medea (Bryers / Wilson)
1949 FP of Henry Cowell's Symphony No. 5. in Washington, D. C.
1949 FP of Morton Gould's Fall River Legend
Symphonic Suite with Pierre Monteux conducting SF Sym.CD-Copland: Appalachian Spring; Gould: Fall River Legend
1949 Birth of American soprano Wilhelmina FERNANDEZ.CD-Wilhelmenia Fernandez Sings Favorite Spirituals
1953 American debut of pianist-conductor Philippe Entremont.
1954 Birth of Janine Roebuck Mezzo-Soprano
Born 5 Jan 1954 Barnsley
Debut as Manja in Countess Maritza (Kalman) 1984
Teachers:- Frederic Cox, Regine Crespin, Edgar Evans, David Harper
Nicholas Powell
1957 Birth of American composer, conductor and violinist Roger ZAHAB in Akron, OH.
1961 FP of Easley Blackwood's Symphony No. 2 A commissioned by music publisher G. Schirmer to celebrate their centenary, in Cleveland.
1962 Birth of American composer Joe MONZO in Philadelphia, PA.
1962 FP of Ross Lee Finney's Piano Quintet No. 2, in Los Angeles, CA.
1967 Death of Luise Helletsgruber Soprano
Born 30 May 1901 Vienna Died 5 Jan 1967
Debut as Shepherd Boy in Tannhauser (Wagner) 1922
Pupil :- Doris Jung
1970 Birth of American composer Daniel FELSENFELD.
1970 Death of Catalan-born British composer Roberto Gerhard, at age 73, in Cambridge, England. b-Valls, Catalonia, Spain, 25 SEP 1896.
1973 FP of Pierre Boulez' Explosante-Fixe in NYC.CD-Boulez: Notations/Structures Pour Deux Pianos/Explosante-Fixe
1974 Death of Russian pianist Lev Oborin in Moscow, age 66. b- 11 SEP
1907.
1974 Death of Wolfgang Anheisser Baritone
Born 1 Dec 1929 Koln Died 5 Jan 1974
Debut as Nardo in Finta Giardinieri (Mozart) 1961
Teacher :- Karl Schmitt-Walter
Sang in premiere of De Temporum fine comoedia (Orff)
1976 Death of French composer Georges Mignot in Levallois, suburban Paris. b-Paris, 27 FEB 1891.
1984 Death of Tino Folgar Tenor
Born 21 Jan 1892 Barcelona Died 5 Jan 1984
Debut as Almaviva in Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) 1923
Teacher :- Esteban Pasqual
1992 Death of Columbian composer Hans Federico Neuman in Barranquilla. b-Barranquilla, 19 DEC 1917. aka Johann Friedrich Neüman.
1998 Death of Russian composer Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov, in Moscow. b-Fatezh-Kursk, between Moscow and Kiev 16 DEC 1915. Compositions. Also see: Voice of Russia site. Russian Culture Navigator site.
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