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- 1642 Birth of German organist and composer Johann Friedrich ALBERTI in Tönning, Thuningen. d-14 JUN 1710.
- 1650 Death of composer Paul Hallman, at 49.
- 1703 Birth of composer Columban PRAELISAUER.
- 1727 Birth of composer Franz Sebastian HAINDL.
- 1746 Birth of Czech composer Frantisek Adam MICA. d-1845.
- 1750 Birth of composer Johann Jakob WALDER. d-1817.
- 1754 FP of second version Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Castor and Pollux in Paris at the Palais Royal Opéra.
CD-Rameau: Castor & Pollux
1763 Death of Italian composer Giovanni Benedetto Platti in Würzburg, Germany. b-Padua, 9 JUL 1697.
1784 Death of composer Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, at age 59. b-1748.
1800 Birth of Claudine Ronzi de Begnis Soprano
Born 11 Jan 1800 Paris Died 7 Jun 1853
Debut 1816
Teacher :- Pierre-Jean Garat
Created Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
Fausta in Fausta (Donizetti)
Sancia in Sancia di Castiglia (Donizetti)
Gemma in Gemma di Vergy (Donizetti)
Idalide in Elvelzi (Pacini)
Imelda in Fernando Duca di Valenzo (Pacini)
Marsa in Marsa (Coccia)
Bianca in Buondelmonte (Donizetti)
Elena in Elena da Feltre (Mercadante)
Zaira in Zaira (Mercadante)
1801 Death of Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa, in Venice at age 51. b-Aversa, 17 DEC 1749.
1801 Birth of composer John Lodge ELLERTON. d-1873.
1813 Death of Giuseppe Aprile Castrato
Born 28 Dec 1732 Bisceglia Apulia 11 Jan 1813
Debut in Barone Deluso (Sciroli) 1752
Teachers:- Girolamo Abos, Gregorio Sciroli
Pupils :- Gaetano Crivelli, Francesca Festa, Michael Kelly, Andrea Nozzari
Created Rinaldo in Armida Abbandonata (Jommelli)
Sang in premiere of Ezio (Traetta)
Caio Mario (Cimarosa)
Tito Nelle Gallie (Anfossi)
Cresco (Sacchini)
Armida (Jommelli)
Ifigenia (Bertoni)
Montezuma (Maio)
Tamas Kouli Kan (Pugnani)
1820 Birth of Russian composer Aleksandr Nikolayevitch SEROV in St. Petersburg. d-St. Petersburg, 20 JAN 1871.
1837 Death of Irish pianist and composer John Field in Moscow, on tour. b-Dublin, 1782.
1843 Death of Francis Scott Key, composer of Star Spangled Banner, at age 63.
1856 Birth of Norwegian composer Christian SINDING in Kongsberg,
Norway. d-Oslo, 3 DEC 1941.
1859 Birth of Francisco D'Andrade Baritone
Born 11 Jan 1859 Lisbon Died 8 Feb 1921
Debut as Amonasro in Aida (Verdi) 1882
Teachers:- Corrado Miraglia, Sebastiano Ronconi
Pupils :- Carl Clewing, Alexander Haydtner
1868 Birth of Charlotte Wyns Soprano
Born 11 Jan 1868 France
Teachers:- Crosti, Archard, Alfred Auguste Giraudet
Created Divonne in Sapho (Massenet)
1869 Birth of Berta Foerstrova-Lauterova Soprano
Born 11 Jan 1869 Prague Died 9 Apl 1936
Debut as Agatha in Freischutz (Weber) 12 Aug 1887
Teachers:- Tauwitz, Antonia Plodkova-Panachova
1870 Death of composer Adolf Ganz, at 73.
1872 Birth of composer Paul GRAENER.
1875 Birth of Russian composer Reinhold GLIERE in Kiev,
Ukraine. d-1956. BBC Profile.
1877 Death of composer Pietro Romani, at age 85.
1880 Birth of pianist and composer Rudolf T. PALM in Curacao.
1882 Birth of Xenia Dorliak Soprano
Born 11 Jan 1882 St Petersburg Died 8 Mar 1945
Teachers:- Natalia Iretskaya, Sofia Gladkaya
Pupil :- Nina Dorliak
1883 Birth of Giuseppe Danise Baritone
Born 11 Jan 1883 Naples Died 4 Jan 1963
Debut as Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) 1906
Teachers:- Luigi Colonnese, Abramo Petillo
Pupil :- Mario Bertolino, Barry Morell, Regina Resnik, Maria Cleva
1885 Birth of German composer and teacher Heinrich STHAMER in Hamburg.
1893 Birth of Tancredi Pasero Bass
Born 11 Jan 1893 Turin Died 17 Feb 1983
Debut as King in Aida (Verdi) 1917
Teacher :- Arturo Pessina
Pupil :- Zdenek Kroupa
Created Babilio in Nerone (Mascagni)
Judge in Margherite da Cortona (Refice)
Hassan in Re Hassan (Ghedini)
Lawyer in Re (Giordano)
Sang in premiere of Orseola (Pizzetti)
1894 Birth of composer Jaroslav VOGEL. d-1970.
1895 FP of Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Sonata, Op. 120, no. 1. Richard Muhlfeld, clarinet and Brahms at piano, in Vienna.CD-Brahms: Complete String Quartets/Clarinet Sonatas
1898 Birth of Luisa Bertana Mezzo-Soprano
Born 11 Jan 1898 Buenos Aires Died 27 July 1933
Debut as Preziosilla in Forza del Destino (Verdi) 1921
Teacher :- Rinaldi
Created Rubria in Nerone (Boito)
Sang in premiere of Ollantay (Gaito)
1898 Death of Italian composer Gaetano Capocci, at 86.
1901 Death of Russian composer Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, in Yalta at age 34. b-Voin, Orlovskaya oblast, 13 JAN 1866.
1902 Birth of French organist and composer Maurice DURUFLE in Louviers. d-Paris, 16 JUN 1986.BOOK-Maurice Durufl, 1902-1986: The Last Impressionist
1905 Birth of Helena Bartosova-Schutzova Soprano
Born 11 Jan 1905 Budapest
Sang in premiere of Family (Holoubek)
1906 Birth of Gwendolyn Koldofsky
Born 11 Jan 1906 Died 12 Nov 1998
Pupil :- Carl Allen Schultz
1906 Birth of composer Johannes Paul THILMAN. d-1973.
1906 FP of S. Rachmaninoff's two one-act operas The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini in Moscow.CD-Rachmaninov:Aleko/The Miserly Knight/Le Chevalier Avare/Francesca Da Rimini
1909 Birth of composer Gunnar Johnsen BERG.
1910 Birth of American conductor Izler SOLOMON in St. Paul, MN.
1918 Birth of American composer Albert WEISSER. d-1982.
1925 FP of Aaron Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, at Aeolian Hall in NYC. New York Symphony, Walter Damrosch conducting. Nadia Boulanger was the soloist.
1926 Birth of British conductor Alexander GIBSON.
1928 Birth of Andrea Guiot Soprano
Born 11 Jan 1928 Nimes
Debut in Faust (Gounod) 1955
Teacher :- Janine Micheau
1929 Birth of Polish violinist Wanda WILKOMIRSKA in Warsaw.
1929 Death of Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée in Gothenberg. b-Visby, Gotland 19 FEB 1841.
1930 Death of Francesco Maria Bonini Baritone
Born 1865 Naples Died 11 Jan 1930
Debut 1896
Teacher :- Beniamino Carelli
Created Silvestro in Vita Brettona (Mugnone)
1931 Birth of American composer M. L. DANIELS.
1931 Death of composer Oscar Fetras, at age 76.
1934 Debut of German born American soprano Lotte Lehmann, at the MET Opera in NYC. Obit.
1935 Death of Marcella Sembrich Soprano
Born 15 Feb 1858 Galicia Poland Died 11 Jan 1935
Debut as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 3 Jun 1877
Teachers:- Francesco Lamperti, Giovanni Lamperti, Richard Loewy
Victor von Rokitansky
Pupils :- Josephine Antoine, Sophie Braslau, Josephine Forsyth
Dusolina Giannini, Alma Gluck, Ethyl Hayden,Louise Jarecki
Maria Jeritza, Hulda Lashanska, Queena Mario,Louise Lerch
Margaret Halstead, Anne Hamlin, Polyna Stoska
1938 Birth of Maurice Maievsky Tenor
Born 11 Jan 1938 Paris
Debut as Dmitri in Boris Godounov (Moussorgsky) 1962
Sang in premiere of Antoine et Cleopatre (Bondeville)
1940 Birth of American composer Mark DeVOTO.
1940 FP of Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet in Leningrad.CD-Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
1943 Birth of American composer William Albert PENN.
1944 Birth of German composer York HOLLER in Leverkusen.
1946 USAmerican citizenship granted to German composer Paul Hindemith.
1952 Death of Aureliano Pertile Tenor
Born 3 Nov 1885 Montagnana Died 11Jan 1952
Debut as Lionel in Martha (Flotow) 1911
Teachers:- Gaetano Bavagnoli, Vittorio Orefice, Giovanni Binetti
Pupil :- Eugenio Fornandi, Pier Miranda Ferraro, Jerzy Garda
Angelo La Forese, Mario Ortica, Virginia Zeani
Disma De Cecco, Giuseppe Zecchillo, Primo Zambruno
Created Nerone in Nerone (Boito)
Nerone in Nerone (Mascagni)
Christopher Sly in Sly (Wolf-Ferrari)
Mazuree in Jacquerine (Marinuzzi)
Ollantay in Ollantay (Gaito)
1954 Death of Austrian composer Oscar Straus, in Bad Ischl at 83. b-Vienna, 1870.
1955 Birth of American counter-tenor Drew MINTER in Washington
Debut as Orlando in Orlando (Handel)
Teachers:- Marcy Lindheimer, Myron McPherson, Rita Streich, Erik Werba
1955 Death of Leon-Pierre Campagnola Tenor
Born 8 Feb 1875 Marseilles Died 11 Jan 1955
Debut as Gerald in Lakme (Delibes) 1909
Teacher :- Manoury
1956 Death of Percy Heming Baritone
Born 6 Sep 1883 Bristol Died11 Jan 1956
Debut as Paris in Romeo & Juliette (Gounod) 1918
Teachers:- Frederick King, Frau Grosse, George Henschel
Pupil :- Harold Blackburn
Created Leper in Leper's Flute (Bryson)
Sang in premiere in Critic (Stanford)
1958 Death of Emmi Leisner Mezzo-Soprano
Born 8 Aug 1885 Flensburg Died 10 Jan 1958
Debut as Amneris in Aida (Verdi) 1913
Teacher :- Helene Breest
1958 Death of composer Alec Rowley, at age 65.
1959 Birth of American composer Tom DAVIS.
1961 Death of Elena Gerhardt Mezzo-Soprano
Born 11 Nov 1883 Leipzig Died 11 Jan 1961
Debut as Mignon in Mignon (Thomas) 8 July 1905
Teacher :- Marie Hedmont
Pupils :- Michelle Bonhomme, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Peter Pears
Flora Nielsen, Winifred Cecil, Joyce Mary Gow, Helga Mott
Cynthia Laurie, Joan Seymour
1962 Birth of American composer Alex SHAPIRO in NYC.
1968 Death of Mariano Stabile Baritone
Born 12 May 1888 Palermo Died 11 Jan 1968
Debut as Marcello in Boheme (Puccini) 1909
Teacher :- Antonio Cotogni
Pupil :- Eduardo Cittanti
Created Belfagor in Belfagor (Respighi)
1968 FP of Rodeon Shchedrin's Chimes, by the New York Philharmonic.CD-Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen Suite/Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2
1973 Death of composer Rudolf Kubin, a day after his 64th
birthday.
1973 Death of Dutch composer Emmy Frensel Wegener in Laren. b-Amsterdam, 14 JUN 1901.
1976 FP of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures in NYC.CD-Pacific Overtures (1976 Original Broadway Cast)
1984 Death of composer Fritz Geissler, at 62.
1989 Death of Einar Andersson Tenor
Born 13 July 1909 Vasteras Sweden Died 11 Jan 1989
Debut as Fenton in Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) 1938
Teachers:- Joseph Hislop,Torsten Lennartsson,Clary Morales, Set Svanholm
Sang in premiere of Aladdin (Atterberg)
1992 FP of John Harbison's song The Flute of Interior Time with text by Kabir, as translated by Robert Bly. William Parker, baritone and Allan Marks, piano at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin . The song became part of The Aids-Quilt Songbook of William Parker.CD-Heartbeats: New Songs from Minnesota for the AIDS Quilt Songbook
1997 FP of Hans Werner Henze's opera Venus and Adonis by the Bavarian State Opera,
in Munich.
1998 Death of conductor Klaus Tennstedt, at 71.
2000 Death of American composer Barney Childs in Redlands, CA. b- Spokane, WA 13 FEB 1926.
2001 FP in USAmerica of John Adams' oratorio El Niño with Kent Nagano conducting the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, the Piedmont Children's Choir. FP at Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris on 15 DEC 2000. CD-John Adams - El niño / Hunt-Lieberson, Upshaw, W. White, Nagano
2005 Death of Australian composer Miriam Hyde in Sydney. b-Adelaide, 15 FEB 1913.
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