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1778 Birth of composer Anton FISCHER. d- 1 DEC 1808.
1788 Birth of composer Carl Ludwig Cornelius WESTENHOLZ. d-4 FEB 1854.
1795 Death of composer Francois-Joseph Krafft, at 73.
1822 Birth of Elise Polko Mezzo-Soprano
Born 13 Jan 1822 Leipzig Died 15 May 1899
Teacher :- Manuel Garcia Jnr
1824 Birth of Polish cellist and composer Ignacy Marceli KOMOROWSKI in Warsaw. d-Warsaw, 1857 of tuberculosis.
1828 Death of English writer and composer Elizabeth Anspach in Naples, Italy. b-London, 17 DEC 1750.
1828 Death of French composer Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, at age 80. d-23 APR 1747.
1838 Death of German composer Ferdinand Reis, at age 53, in Frankfurt. b- Godesberg, 28 NOV 1784.
1842 Birth of German pianist and composer Heinrich HOFFMAN in
Berlin. d-Gross-Tabarz, 16 JUL 1902.
1850 Birth of Australian musical director and composer Leon Francis Victor CARON. d-1905. Conductor of the Melbourne Opera House and the Lyster Grand Italian Opera Company. Organised the Caron Opera Company. Composed original cantata for the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880.
1854 Philadelphia Inventor Anthony Foss patents his accordion.
1864 Death of American composer Stephen Collins Foster in NYC. b-Pittsburgh, 4 July 1826.BOOK(For Children)-The Life and Times of Stephen Foster
1866 Birth of Russian composer and conductor (Basil) Vasily KALINNIKOV in Voin. d-Yalta, Crimea, 11 JAN 1901.
1870 Birth of Polish composer and conductor Henryk OPIENSKI.
1873 FP of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Ivan The Terrible aka The Maid of
Pskov. CDs-Rimsky-Korsakov: Ivan the Terrible
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Maid Of Pskov
1882 German composer Richard Wagner completes his opera Parsifal.
1883 FP of George Chadwick's Thalia Overture. Boston Symphony.CD-Chadwick: Orchestral Works
1890 FP of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet, in St. Petersburg. CD-Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
1892 Death of composer Charles Albert White, at 62. b-1832.
1893 Birth of Czech composer and organist Jan Evangelista ZELINKA in Prague. d Prague, 30 JUN 1969. Studied in Prague.
1893 Death of Melita Otto Soprano
Born 16 Dec 1842 Dresden Died 13 Jan 1893
Debut 1860
Teacher :- Theile
1895 Birth of Spanish opera singer and film actor Fortunio BONANOVA, in
Palma de Mallorca, Spain. d-Woodland Hills, CA 2 APR 1969 of cerebral hemorrhage. Film credits. Television credits.
1895 Birth of Austrian composer Abraham Wolfe BINDER. d-1966.
1896 Birth of Nikolay Pechkovsky Tenor
Born 13 Jan 1896 Moscow Died 24 Nov 1966
Debut 1918
Teacher :- Donsky
1898 Birth of Italian baritone Carlo TAGLIABUE in Mariano Comense. d-5 APR
1978 in Monza. Debut as Amonasro in Aida (Verdi) 1922
Teachers:- Gennai, Guidotti
Pupils :- Raffeale Arie, Giuseppe Zecchillo, Vasile Martinoiu
Angelo Gobbato
Created Scedeur in Straniero (Pizzetti)
Sang in premiere of Fiamma (Respighi)
Morte di Frine (Rocca)
Guido del Popolo (Robbiani)
1899 Birth of British-American composer and conductor Laurence POWELL.
1900 Birth of composer Yasuji KIYOSE.
1901 Death of composer and harmonic theory and vocal writing teacher, Carlo Angeloni, at 66. Was director of the
Istituto Musicale Pacini. b-1835.
1903 Birth of American tenor Charles KULLMAN in New Haven Connecticut. Died 8 Feb 1983.
Debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Puccini) 1920
Teachers:- Harold Huni, Jiacinto Marcosano, Francis Rogers
Thomas Salignac, Anna Schoen-Rene
Pupils :- William Brown, Felicia Weathers, Elliot Palay
1904 Birth of English composer Richard ADDINSELL in Oxford. d-London, 14 NOV
1977.
1904 FP of Bela Bartók's tone-poem Kossuth, with parody of the German national hymn causing outrage, in Budapest. CD-Bartok: Concerto for orchestra Sz116; Kossuth
1906 Birth of composer Maxime JACOB.
1910 First experimental live broadcast of opera. In NYC, from the MET Opera
stage, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and part of Pagliacci,
with Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn. Dr. Lee De Forest sending it to
co-workers in New Jersey.
1914 Death of Spanish composer Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, at age 76, in Madrid. b-13 FEB 1838.
1917 Birth of Mexican composer Felix Guerrero DIAZ.
1917 Death of Albert Niemann Tenor
Born 15 Jan 1831 Magdeburg Germany Died 13 Jan 1917
Debut 1849
Teachers:- Louis-Gilbert Duprez, Albert Nusch, Friedrich Schneider
1923 Birth of Russian cellist Daniel SHIFRIN. d-1997.
1931 Birth of Erwin Wohlfahrt Tenor
Born 13 Jan 1931 Nurnberg Died 29 Nov 1968
Debut as Adam in Vogelhandler (Zeller) 1955
Teacher :- Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Foesel, Gebhard
Sang in premiere of Incidents at Emergency Landing (Blacher)
Visitation (Schuller)
Jacobowsky und der Oberst (Klebe)
Das Lacheln am Fust der Leiter (Bibalo)
1933 Birth of Christiane Sorell Soprano
Born 13 Jan 1933 Vienna
Debut 1955
Teacher :- Ferdinand Grossmann
1935 FP of Roy Harris's overture When Johnny Comes Marching Home the final version, by the Minneapolis Symphony and chorus under Eugene Ormandy.CD-I Hear America Singing! Choral Music of Roy Harris
1936 Birth of Italian baritone Renato BRUSON near Padua. Debut as Di Luna in Trovatore (Verdi) 1961
Teacher :- Elena Fava Ceriata
BOOK-Ticket to the Opera: Discovering and Exploring 100 Famous Works, History, Lore, and Singers, with Recommended Recordings
1936 Birth of composer Ami MAAYANI.
1938 Birth of Finnish Paavo HEININEN in Helsinki.
1938 American debut of pianist Rudolf Firkusny. Obit.
1943 Birth of composer William DUCKWORTH.BOOK-A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals
1944 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Circus Polka for orchestra and Four Norwegian Moods at the Garden Theatre. Boston Symphony conducted by the composer in Cambridge, MA.CD-The Music of Stravinsky
1945 Death of Alfred Kase Baritone
Born 28 Oct 1877 Stettin Died 13 Jan 1945
Debut 1902
Teacher :- Emanuel Kroupa
1945 FP of Sergei Prokofiev's 5th Symphony. Moscow State Philharmonic, with the composer conducting in Moscow.CD-Prokofiev: 7 Symphonies / Lieutenant Kijé
1951 Birth of English composer Gary CARPENTER in Hackney, London.
1951 Death of Russian composer Nikolai Karlovich Medtner in London. b-Moscow, 5 JAN 1880. b Moscow, 5 JAN 1880. aka Nikolay Karlovich Medtner.
1954 Birth of English composer Richard BLACKFORD in London.
1954 Death of composer Roland Diggle, at 69.
1961 Birth of English organist, pianist and conductor Wayne MARSHALL.
1971 Birth of Domonic Natoli Tenor
Born 13 Jan 1971
Teachers:- Marlena Malas, Waldemar Kmentt, Afro Poli, David Harper
Carol Blaikner-Mayo, Milla Andrew, Alfredo Krauss,
Luigi Alva, Joan Sutherland
1971 Death of French composer Henri Tomasi, at age 69, in Paris. b-Marseille, 17 August 1901.
1971 Death of English composer Robert Still, at age 60, in Bucklebury, Berkshire. b-London, 10 June 1910.
1973 Birth of Juan Diego Flores Tenor
Born 13 Jan 1973 Lima
Debut as Corradino in Matilde de Shabran (Rossini) 1996
Teachers:- Marilyn Horne, Ernesto Palacio
1974 Death of Canadian tenor Raoul Jobin in Quebec, age 67. b- 8 APR
1906.
1976 Death of Lily Pons Soprano
Born 12 Apr 1898 Cannes Died 13 Jan 1976
Debut as Lakme in Lakme (Delibes) 1928
Teachers:- Alberto De Gorostiaga, Giovanni Zenatello, Maria Gay
1976 American conductor Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NY's
Metropolitan Opera. She led the MET orchestra and singers in a performance
of La Traviata.BOOK-Uncommon Women: Gwendolyn Brooks, Sarah Caldwell, Julie Harris, Mary McCarthy, Alice Neel, Roberta Peters, Maria Tallchief, Mary Lou Williams, Eugenia Zukerman
1980 Birth of England based, Polish conductor and organist Krzysztof CZERWINSKI.
1980 Death of conductor Andre Kostelanetz, at 78 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. b-St. Petersburg, Russia, 23 DEC 1901. m/d-soprano Lily Pons.
1992 Death of Rachaeli Mori Soprano
Born 15 Jun 1894 Pavio Died 13 Jan 1992
Pupil :- Joseph Rouleau
1993 Death of Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri in Săo Paulo. b-Săo Paulo, 1 FEB 1907.
1994 Death of English musicologist Frederick William Sternfeld, at 79. Exeter Fellow, 1956. b-25 SEP 1914.
2000 FP of Richard Danielpour's Voices of Remembrance for string quartet and orchestra. Guarneri String Quartet and the National Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting in Washington, D.C.
2002 FP of Robert Kapilow's Louisiana Purchase by Louisiana Philharmonic, Baton Rouge, LA.
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