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- 1592 Birth of French composer Pierre de La BARRE. Which La Barre?
- 1629 Death of German composer Hieronymus Praetorius in Hamburg. b-Hamburg, 10 AUG 1560.
- 1715 Birth of composer Vaclav KALOUS.
- 1726 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 72 Alles nur nach Gottes Willen on the 3rd Sunday following Epiphany, was part of Bach's third annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1725-27.
- 1731 Death of Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori in Florence at age 76.
Harpsichord craftsman credited with inventing the piano.
- 1733 (GC, JC= 7 FEB) FP of Handel's opera Orlando which runs for ten performances at The King's Theater in Haymarket, London.
- 1756 Birth of Austrian composer W. A. MOZART, in Salzburg. d-Vienna, 5 DEC 1791.
- 1758 Death of Senesino (Francesco Bernardi) Castrato
Born 1680 Siena Died 27 Jan 1758
Debut 1707
Teachers:- Antonio Mario Bernacchi, Nicola Porpora
Created Giulio Cesare in Giulio Cesare (Handel)
Andronicus in Tamerlano (Handel)
Bertarido in Rodelinda (Handel)
Ezio in Ezio (Handel)
Gualtiero in Griselda (Bononcini)
Sosarme in Sosarme (Handel)
Alessandro Magno in Alessandro (Handel)
Guido in Flavio (Handel)
Admeto in Admeto (Handel)
Floridante in Floridante (Handel)
Ottone in Ottone (Handel)
Poro in Poro Re Dell'Indie (Handel)
Riccardo in Riccardo Primo (Handel)
Lucejo in Scipione (Handel)
Tolomeo in Tolomeo (Handel)
Teseo in Arianna in Nasso (Porpora)
Orlando in Orlando (Handel)
Ottone II in Teofane (Lotti)
Sang in premiere of Inimico Generosa (Caldara)
Carlo Re D'Alemagna (Scarletti A)
Virtu Trionfante (Scarlatti A)
Giove in Argo (Lotti)
Ascanio (Lotti)
Trionfo di Camilli (Porpora)
Caio Marzio Coriolano (Ariosti)
Vespasiano (Ariosti)
Aquilio Consolo (Ariosti)
Artaserse (Ariosti)
Dario (Ariosti)
Lucio Vero (Ariosti)
Teuzzone (Ariosti)
Odio e l'amore (Bononcini)
Farnace (Bononcini)
Calfurnia (Bononcini)
Astianatte (Bononcini)
- 1775 Birth of Spanish tenor and composer Manuel del Popolo
Vicente Rodriguez GARCIA.
- 1780 Birth of Giuseppe Siboni Tenor
Born 27 Jan 1780 Forli Died 28 Mar 1839
Debut as Ahasvedo in Ester (Tarchi) Mar 1797
Pupils :- Nanette Frolich, Josephine Frolich
Created Boadil in Abenamet e Zoraide (Niccolini)
Baldovino in Raul di Crequi (Mayr)
Traiano in Arminia (Pavesi)
Lucio Papirio in Quinto Fabio Rutiliano (Niccolini)
Salem in Salem (Mosel)
Saul in David (Liverati)
Classamoro in Clato (Generali)
Ernesto in Federico ed Astolfo (Gyrowetz)
Enrico IV in Caccia di Enrico IV (Pucitta)
Alonzo in Cora (Mayr)
- 1784 Birth of Belgian composer Martin-Joseph MENGAL.
- 1802 Death of German composer Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg in Stuttgart. b-Sachsenflur, suburban Mergentheim, 10 JAN 1760.
- 1806 Birth of Spanish composer Juan ARRIAGA y Balzola in Rigoitia. d-Paris, 17 JAN 1826.
- 1823 Birth of French composer Edouard LALO in Lille. d-Paris, 22 APR 1892.
- 1828 Birth of composer Louis SCHUBERT.
- 1830 Birth of Austrian composer Georg HELLMESBERGER.
- 1844 FP of Erkel's opera Hunyady László in Budapest. Perhaps the first national Hungarian opera.
- 1849 FP of G. Verdi's opera La battaglia di Legnano. 'The Battle of Legnano' at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
- 1865 Birth of Marie Dietrich Soprano
Born 27 Jan 1865 Weinsberg Died 14 Dec 1940
Debut 1889
Teachers:- Frau Bader, Ferdinand Jager, Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Pupil :- Elisabeth Schumann
- 1867 Birth of French composer Claude Antoine TERRASSE.
- 1868 Birth of Dutch
composer Will Marion COOK. d-1944.
- 1868 Birth of Cato Engelen-Sewing Soprano
Born 27 Jan 1868 Amsterdam Died 17 Dec 1961
Debut as Maritana in Don Cesar de Bazan (Massenet) 1890
Teachers:- Mme Collin-Tobeschi, Knudson, Johannes Meschaert
- 1874 (GC, JC=8 FEB) FP of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov, in St. Petersburg.
- 1879 Birth of Berta Morena Soprano
Born 27 Jan 1879 Mannheim Died 7 Oct 1952
Debut as Agathe in Freischutz (Weber) 1898
Teachers:- Regina De Sales, Sophie Rohr-Brajnin, Aglaia von Orgeni
- 1881 Birth of Andrjeva von Skilondz Soprano / Teaching of Singing
Born 27 Jan 1881 St Petersburg Died 5 Apr 1969
Debut 1904
Pupils :- Anna-Lisa Bjorling, Kim Borg, Kjerstin Dellert, Eva Gustavson,
Carl Axel Hallgren, Arne Hendriksen, Benna Lemon-Brundin
Margit Mandahl, Stina Britta Melander, Kerstin Meyer, Rut Moberg
Sonja Norin, Astrid Ohlson, Eva Prytz, Isa Quensel,
Greta Sodermann, Elisabeth Soderstrom, Inga Sundstrom
- 1884 Birth of Jeanne Campredon Soprano
Born 27 Jan 1884 Algeria
Debut as Queen in Huguenots (Meyerbeer)
Pupil :- Juan Oncina
- 1885 Birth of American songwriter and composer Jerome KERN in NYC. d-1945.
- 1885 Birth of German composer Eduard KUNNEKE.
- 1887 Birth of Francesco Merli Tenor
Born 27 Jan 1887 Milan Died 11 Dec 1976
Debut as Elisero in Mose (Rossini) 1914
Teachers:- Borghi, Negrini,
Pupils :- Michele Molese, Primo Zambruno
Created Baldo in Belfagor (Respighi)
Fausto in Urania (Favara)
Sang in premiere of Huemac (De Rogatis)
- 1890 Birth of Hans Duhan Baritone / Teacher of Singing
Born 27 Jan 1890 Vienna Died 6 Mar 1971
Debut 1910
Pupils :- Walter Berry, Hans Braun, Ernst Gutstein, Oldrich Kovar
Erich Kunz, Peter Lagger, Otto Weiner, Johannes Kemter
Hermann Uhde
Sang in premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss)
- 1892 Birth of composer Mitya STILLMAN. d-1936.
- 1895 Birth of Polish conductor Joseph ROSENSTOCK.
- 1895 Birth of composer Claudio CARNEYRO.
- 1895 Birth of American composer Granville ENGLISH. d-1968.
- 1895 Birth of American composer Harry RUBY. d-1974.
- 1900 Death of Joseph Tagliafico Bass-Baritone
Born 1 Jan 1821 Toulon Died 27 Jan 1900
Debut 1844
Teachers:- Luigi Lablache, Piermarini
Created Lefort in Pietro il Grande (Jullien)
- 1901 Death of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi at age 87, in Milan. b-Roncole, 10 OCT 1813.
- 1906 Birth of Brazilian composer Radames GNATTALI.
- 1913 Birth of American composer Milton ADOLPHUS.
- 1913 Birth of composer Valery Viktorovich ZHELOBINSKY.
- 1915 Birth of English clarinetist Jack BRYMER. Photo.
The Mozart specialist began his career as a schoolmaster in Croydon receiving popularity as one of the woodwind players recruited by Sir Thomas Beecham for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra following the Second World War.
d-age 88, 16 SEP 2003. Andante/The Herald, Obituary.
- 1918 Birth of American conductor Lyle Cedric 'Skitch' HENDERSON in Birmingham,
England. d-New Milford, CT 1 NOV 2005. Obit
- 1919 Birth of British pianist Nina MILKINA.
- 1924 Birth of Russian composer Alexander Georgiyevich CHUGAYEV.
- 1928 Birth of French composer and pianist Jean Michel DAMASE in Bordeaux.
- 1930 Birth of Eleonora Andreyeva Soprano
Born 27 Jan 1930 Witebsk
Debut as Elena in Vespri Siciliani (Verdi) 1958
Teacher :- P L Trochina
- 1933 Birth of Anna Green Soprano
Born 27 Jan 1933 Southampton
Debut as Amelia in Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) 1961
Teacher :- Rodolfo Mele
- 1937 Birth of English pianist and composer John OGDEN in Manchester. Film 'Virtuoso' based on his life. d-8 AUG 1989.
- 1938 FP of Constant Lambert's ballet Horoscope in London.
- 1939 Birth of composer Tigran Yegiayi MANSURYAN.
- 1942 Birth of Polish composer Petr KOTIK.
- 1944 FP of Paul Creston's Saxophone Concerto in NYC.
- 1945 Death of Moravian pianist and composer Gideon Klein in Furstengrube. b-Prerov, Moravia, 6 DEC 1919.
- 1947 Death of Anna Bahr Mildenberg Soprano / Teacher of Singing
Born 29 Nov 1872 Vienna Died 27 Jan 1947
Debut Brunnhilde in Walkure (Wagner) 1895
Teachers:- Rosa Papier-Paumgartner, Pollini
Pupils :- Lillian Benningson, Josef Greindl, Ira Malaniuk, Lauritz Melchior
Ruth Michaelis, Elisabeth Schartel, Adolf Vogel, Eugenia Zareska
Liane Synek, Josef Janko, Uta Graf, Irmgard Gerz
Carlos Alexander, Wolfgang Zimmerman, Marie Nezadal
- 1947 Death of Reynaldo Hahn Tenor / Composer
Born 9 Aug 1874 Caradas Venezuela Died 27 Jan 1947
Pupils :- Georgi Boue, Jennie Tourel
- 1947 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in D, in Basle, Switzerland. Basle Chamber Orchestra conducted by Paul Sacher, who commissioned the work.
- 1948 Birth of French pianist Jean-Philippe COLLARD.
- 1949 Death of Russian composer and writer Boris Assafiev in Moscow at age 64. b - 29 JUN 1884.
- 1951 Birth of American composer Nancy GAILBREAITH.
- 1952 Birth of American composer Peter GARLAND.
- 1954 Birth of Keith Latham Baritone
Born 27 Jan 1954 Burnley Lancs Died 26 Jan 2001
Debut as Titon in Undine (Lortzing) 1984
Teacher :- Patrick McGuigan
- 1955 Death of Peter Lordmann Bass
Born 22 Mar 1874 Cologne Died 27 Jan 1955
Debut 1897
Pupil :- Hellmuth Kaphahn
Sang in premiere of Die Marketenderin (Humperdinck)
- 1955 FP of Michael Tippett's opera The Midsummer Marriage at the Royal Opera House, in London. John Pritchard conducting.
- 1956 Birth of American composer Art JARVINEN.
- 1956 Death of Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber at age 65. b-Vienna, 5 AUG 1890.
- 1961 In NYC, at the MET Opera debut of Leontyne Price as Leonora in
Il Trovatore.
- 1962 Birth of British clarinetist Michael COLLINS. m-violinist Isabelle van Kuellen.
- 1967 Birth of American composer Seán HEIM in Philadelphia, PA.
- 1967 FP of Leon Kirchner's Quartet No. 3 for strings and electronic tape, by the Beaux Arts Quartet, in NYC. Won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
- 1970 Birth of Swiss-French flutist Emmanuel PAHUD, became principal flutist
with Berlin Philharmonic at the age of 23.
- 1970 Birth of American composer Kurt ERICSON.
- 1977 Birth of American composer Daniel Anthony BACA in Brownsville, TX.
- 2002 Death of Alain Vanzo Tenor
Born 2 April 1928 Monte Carlo Died 27 Jan 2002
Debut as Pirate in Oberon (Weber) 1954
Teachers:- Mme Audouard, Rolande Darcoeur, Mario Podesta
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