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- 1631 English court Masque established by Ben Johnson and Inigo Jones, with Their Love's Triumph Through Callipolis. Social life in this era.
- 1651 Birth of Italian composer Petronio FRANCESCHINI in Bologna. d-Venice, 4 DEC 1680.
- 1724 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 154 Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren on the 1st Sunday following Epiphany. Was part of Bach's first annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1723-24.
- 1737 Birth of Henri Larrivee Baritone
Born 9 Jan 1737 Lyon Died 7 Aug 1802
Debut as Priest in Castor et Pollux (Rameau) 1755
Created Ubaldo in Armide (Gluck)
Hercules in Alceste (Gluck)
Agamemnon in Iphigenie en Aulide (Gluck)
Orestes in Iphigenie en Tauride (Gluck)
Danaus in Danaides (Salieri)
Ricimir in Ernelinde Princesse de Norvege (Philidor)
Orestes in Iphigenie en Tauride (Piccinni)
Orestes in Andromaque (Gretry)
Oreste in Electre (Lemoyne)
Sabinus in Sabinus (Gossec)
- 1753 Birth of Luisa Rosa Todi Soprano
Born 9 Jan 1753 Setubal Portugal Died 1 Oct 1833
Teacher :- Davide Perez
- 1767 Death of Francesca Bertolli Mezzo-Soprano
Born Rome Died 9 Jan 1767
Created Honoria in Ezio (Handel)
Armindo in Partenope (Handel)
Selene in Berenice (Handel)
Leocastre in Giustino (Handel)
Gandarte in Poro Re dell'Indie (Handel)
Dionysius in Arianna in Nasse (Porpora)
Ramise in Arminio (Handel)
Idelberto in Lotario (Handel)
Medoro in Orlando (Handel)
- 1810 Birth of Anna Bishop Soprano
Born 9 Jan 1810 London Died 18 Mar 1884
Debut 1831
Teacher :- Henry Bishop (later husband)
Created Rosalie in Vascello di Gama (Mercadante)
- 1839 Birth of American composer John Knowles PAINE in Portland Maine. Taught at Harvard. d- 25 APR 1906.
- 1844 Birth of Julian Gayarre Tenor
Born 9 Jan 1844 Valle de Roncal Died 2 Jan 1890
Debut as Nemorino in Elisir d'Amore (Donizetti) 1867
Teachers:- Lamperti, Melchiorre Vidal, J.Maya, C Garcia
Created Enzo in Gioconda (Ponchielli)
Marcello di Bruges in Duca D'Alba (Donizetti)
- 1856 Birth of Yugoslavian composer Stevan MOKRANJAC in Negotin. d-Skopje, 28 SEP 1914.
- 1867 Birth of Jacques Urlus Tenor
Born 9 Jan 1867 Hergenrath Died 6 July 1935
Debut as Beppe in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1 Sep 1894
Teachers:- Anton Averkamp, Hugo Nolthenius, Cornelia van Santen
Sang in premiere of Orestes (Weingartner)
Wreckers (Smyth)
- 1880 FP of N. Rimsky-Korsakov's opera May Night in St. Petersburg.
CD-Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night
1887 Death of Marius-Pierre Audran Tenor
Born 26 Sep 1816 Aix-en-Provence Died 9 Jan 1887
Teachers:- E Arnaud, Panseron
Debut in Le Chalet (Adam) 1837
Sang in premiere of Le Roi d'Yvetot (Adam)
Le Val d'Andorre (Halevy)
Haydee (Auber)
Le Demoiselle d'Honneur (Semet)
1890 Birth of Alessandro Valente Tenor
Born 9 Jan 1890 Turin Died 7 Oct 1958
Debut as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) 1912
Teachers:- Oreste Parodi, Louis Scheiwen
1892 FP of Richard Strauss' Death and Transfiguration, by NY
Philharmonic.CD-Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks/Don Juan/Death And Transfiguration
1896 Birth of New Zealand conductor Warwick Henry BRAITHWAITE in
Dunedin. d-London, 18 JAN 1971. Father of conductor Nicholas Braithwaite.
1899 Birth of Russian composer Alexander TCHEREPNIN in St. Petersburg. BOOK-Alexander Tcherepnin: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)
1900 Birth of American composer Joseph WAGNER. d-1974.
1901 Birth of Alexandra Trianti Soprano
Born 9 Jan 1901 Athens Died 16 Nov 1977
Teachers:- Philipp Forsten, Maria Ivogun
Pupil :- Arda Mandikian
1902 Birth of British administrator of NYC's MET Opera Rudolph BING in Vienna. d- NYC after alzheimers disease 2 AUG 1997. Fired
Maria Callas in 1968.BOOK-5000 Nights at the Opera: The Memoirs of Sir Rudolph Bing
1904 FP of Debussy's Estampes and played by Spanish pianist Ricardo Vines in Paris.
1904 (22nd?) Birth of dancer-choreographer George BALANCHINE.BOOK-George Balanchine: American Ballet Master
1909 Birth of American soprano Herva NELLI in Florence, Italy. d-31 MAY 1994.
Debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) 1937
1909 Birth of German bass-baritone Hans HOTTER in Offenbach am Main. d-8 DEC 2003.
See obituary in The Guardian Unlimited. Hotter enjoyed an operatic career spanning more than 50 years. Links, died at age 94.BOOK-Hans Hotter: Man and Artist
1909 FP of Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit Ricardo Vines plays in Paris.CD-The Complete Piano Music of Maurice Ravel
1911 Death of American composer, pianist and teacher William Hall Sherwood in Chicago. b-Lyons, NY 31 JAN 1854.
1914 Birth of Julien Giovanetti Baritone
Born 9 Jan 1914 Duzerville Algeria Died 29 Jan 1966
Debut as Zurga in Pearl Fishers (Bizet) 19 Oct 1940
Sang in premiere of Locandiera (Thiriet)
Cyrnos (Ameller)
Sampiero Corso (Tomasi)
1916 Birth of James Pease Bass-Baritone
Born 9 Jan 1916 Franklin Indiana Died 26 April 1967
Debut as Mephistopheles in Faust Nov 1941
Created Socrates in Pallas Athene Weint (Krenek)
Grigoris in Greek Passion (Martinu)
1918 Birth of Ruthilde Boesch Soprano
Born 9 Jan 1918 Braunau am Inn
Debut as Susanna in Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) 1947
Teachers:- Judith Hellwig, Alfred Jerger, Josef Krips, Helene Wildbrunn
Pupil :- Edita Gruberova, Eva Lind
Created Doris in Werbekleid (Salmhofer)
1921 Birth of American composer Seymour BARAB in Chicago, IL.
1921 Birth of Alfred Wroblewski Bass
Born 9 Jan 1921 Allerstein
Teacher :- K Seipt
Created Soldier in Men of Blackmoor (Bush)
1931 Birth of Margaret Nisbett Soprano
Born 9 Jan 1931 Melbourne Australia
Teachers:- Pauline Bindley, Clive Carey
1932 Birth of Vladimiro Ganzarolli Bass-Baritone
Born 9 Jan 1932 Venice
Debut as Mephistofeles (Faust) 1958
Teacher :- Iris Adami Corradetti
1932 Birth of Jaroslav Kachel Tenor
Born 9 Jan 1932 Ostrava Czechoslovakia
Created Jupiter in Kaisir Jovian (Kelterborn)
Pentheus in Pentheus (Valdambrini)
Rabbi in Dybuk (Fussl)
Sang in premiere of Love Ballad (Doubrava)
1936 Birth of Danish composer and teacher Erik NORBY in Copenhagen.
1937 FP of Arnold Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 4. Kolisch Quartet, in Los Angeles, CA.CD-Schoenberg: Transfigured Night
1939 FP of Bela Bartók's Rhapsody in two movements for clarinet, violin, and piano. Performers were clarinetist Benny Goodman, violinist Joseph Szigeti, and Bartók at the piano, in NYC. Recorded in 1940, with 3rd mmy, as Contrasts, commissioned by Goodman.
1940 Birth of American Mezzo-Soprano Jean KRAFT in Menasha, Wis
Debut as Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author (Weisgall)
Teachers:- Povla Frijsh,Euphemia Giannini-Gregory, Theodore Harrison
Ernst Vedal
Created Juno in Tempest (Eaton)
1940 Birth of Louise Lebrun Soprano
Born 9 Jan 1940 Montreal
Debut in Enfant et les Sortileges (Ravel) 1965
1941 Birth of American composer Jeraldine Saunders HERBISON in Richmond, VA.
1947 FP of Roger Sessions' Symphony No. 2. San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting.
1947 FP of Kurt Weill's opera Street Scene at the Adelphi Theater in NYC.
1948 FP of Walter Piston's Sym No 3, by Boston SO under S. Koussevitzky. Pulitzer Prize (1948).CD-Piston: Symphony No3; Yannatos: Concerto
1949 Death of Armida Parsi-Pettinella Mezzo-Soprano
Born 30 Aug 1868 Gallese Died 9 Jan 1949
Debut 1893
Sang in premiere of Guglielmo Ratcliff (Mascagni)
1953 Death of Eduard Lichtenstein Tenor
Born 1 Apr 1889 Karlsbad Died 9 Jan 1953
Debut as Georg in Waffenschmied (Lortzing) 1908
Teacher :- Nikolaus Rothmuhl, Jean De Reszke
Pupils :- Claire Watson, Alfons von Goethem
1956 Birth of German Mezzo-soprano Waltraud MEIER in Würzburg.
Debut as Cherubino in Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) 1976
Teachers:- Dietger Jacob, Anton Theisen
1957 Death of American composer and teacher Mary Carr Moore in Inglewood, CA. b-Memphis, TN 6 AUG 1873. Taught by her uncle John Harraden Pratt.
1958 Birth of Finnish soprano Hillevi MARTINPELTO.
1962 Birth of English oboist Nicholas DANIEL.
1967 Birth of American composer James SALE.
1968 Death of French pianist and composer Louis Francois Aubert in Paris. b-Parame, 19 FEB 1877.
1969 Death of Czech music critic and composer Ladislav Vycpalek in Prague. b-Vrsovice, 23 FEB 1882. Photo.
1976 FP of William Bolcoms Seasons for guitar, in NYC.CD-Great American Guitar Solo
1987 FP of Joan Tower's Silver Ladders. St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting. CD-Tower: Sequoia; Island Prelude
1988 FP of Alvin Singleton's After Fallen Crumbs for orchestra. Atlanta Symphony, Michael Palmer conducting.
1990 Death of Tadeusz Wierzbicki Bass
Born 1922 Gostowo Poland Died 9 Jan 1990
Teacher :- Lucette Korsoff
Sang in premiere of Egmont (Meulemans)
2003 FP of Behzad Ranjbaran's Violin Concerto. Conductor Gerard Schwarz and violinist Joshua Bell with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
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