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- 1013 Birth of composer of church music and inventor
of musical notation system Hermannus CONTRACTUS.
- 1591 Death of composer Jacobus Gallus in Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic). b-Reifnitz, Carniola (now Ribnica, Slovenia) 1550.
- 1670 Birth of Italian composer Giovanni BONONCINI in Modena. d- Vienna, 9 JUL 1747.
- 1735 Death of Bayreuth organist and composer Johann Krieger. Handel was a
fan.
- 1777 FP of M. Arne's "The Fairy Tale" rev. A Midsummer Night's Dream London .
- 1791 FP of Cherubini's opera Lodoiska in Paris.
- 1821 Birth of French soprano and actress Pauline VIARDOT-GARCIA in Paris. d-18 MAY 1910. In her
later years an operetta composer with librettist Turgeniev. Debut as Desdemona in Otello (Rossini) 1839
Teachers:- Manuel del Popolo Vicente Garcia (her father)
Joaquina Garcia (her stepmother)
Pupils :- Ada Adini, Desiree Artot di Padilla, Lola Beeth, Bianca Bianchi,
Marianne Brandt, Anne Louise Cary, Marie Dietrich, Alberto Garcia,
Marie Hanfstangel, Jeanne Gerville-Reache,Lillian Henschel
Marguerite Herleroy, Natalie Iretskaya, Marie Litta
Martha Lefler-Burckhard, Felia Litvinne, George Meader,
Eleonora Petrelli, Maria Philippi, Mafalda Salvatini, Erik Schmedes,
Margherita Seims, Anna Schoen-Rene, Aglaia Von Orgeni,
Antoinette Sterling, Johanna Wagner, Esther Palliser
Gertrud Godier, Teresa Arkel, Anna Schoen-Rene, Kate Santley
Elizaveta Andre Lavrovskaya, Mathilde Phillips
Created Fides in Prophete (Meyerbeer)
Sapho in Sapho (Gounod)
- 1830 Birth of French composer Marie Auguste DURAND in Paris. d-Paris, 31 May 1909.
- 1849 Birth of German music scholar and theorist Hugo RIEMANN.
- 1860 Birth of Dimitrie Popovici Baritone
Born 18 July 1860 Iasi Romania Died 6 Apl 1927
Debut in Fata Aerului (Wachmann)
Teachers:- Joseph Gansbacher, George Stephanescu
Pupil :- Nici Apostolescu
- 1870 Birth of Polish conductor and composer Emil MLYNARSKI.
- 1872 Birth of Czechoslovakian composer Julius FUCIK. d- 1916.
- 1874 Birth of Bergstrom, Oskar (b) (1874-1931) Swed. b. Stockholm, July 18, 1874; d.
Nov. 14, 1931:
- 1877 Birth of Nikolai Speransky Bass-Baritone
Born 18 July 1877 Saratov Died 5 Mar 1952
Debut 1901
Teachers:- Mattia Battistini, Camille Everard, Saratov
Pupil :- Hussain Aga Hadjibekov
Created Dodon in Coq D'Or (Rimsky-Korsakov)
- 1877 Tchaikovski gets married to Antonina Milyukova.
- 1878 Birth of Dufau, Jenny (s) (1878-1924) Ger. (46) b. Rothau, Alsace, July 18,
1878; d. Pau, France, Aug. 29, 1924:
- 1885 Birth of Rehfuss, Carl (b) (1885-1946) Ger. b. Frankfurt, July 18, 1885; d.
Dec. 7, 1946:
- 1886 Birth of Dutch composer Theodor BIJL.
- 1894 Birth of Dutch-American composer Bernard WAGENAAR in Arnhem
Holland.
- 1898 Death of Dutch composer Emil Hartmann in Copenhagen, at age 62. b- 21 FEB
1836.
- 1905 Birth of Vladimir Jedenactik Bass
Born 18 Jul 1905 Brno
Teachers:- Marie Fleischerova, Valentin Sindler
Created Osip in From the House of the Dead (Janacek)
Sang in premiere of Kralav Mincmistr (Vostrak)
- 1912 Birth of Vichey, Luben [aka, Lubomir Vichegonov] (bs) (1912-1995) Bulgarian.
(82) b. Sofia, July 18, 1912; d. Jan. 7, 1995: Sang at Central City,
CO. Faust. (1954). MET: Début Dec. 4, 1948 [Sparafucile] Rigoletto
(1948-56, 61-63, 65-66) 200 perf., 20 works.
- 1917 Birth of Teodor Srubar Baritone
Born 18 July 1917 Ostrava
Debut as Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1942
Teachers:- Apollo Granforte, A Matouskova, Bohumil Sobesky
Created Susan's Partner in Susan Vojirova (Pauer)
Sang in premiere of Invincible (Kalas)
- 1920 FP of Miaskovsky's Symphony No. 5, in Moscow.
- 1927 Birth of German conductor Kurt MASUR. 1981 debut with the NY Philharmonic Orchestra.
- 1927 Birth of conductor Carlo FRANCI. Brother of baritone
Benvenuto Franci.
- 1927 Birth of Edith Gabry Soprano
Born 18 July 1927 Budapest
Sang in premiere of Soldaten (Zimmermann)
- 1931 Birth of Yuri Mazurok Baritone
Born 18 July 1931 Krasnik Poland
Debut 1963
Teacher :- Sveshnikova
- 1933 Birth of Canadian composer R. Murray SCHAFER in Sarnia, Ontario.
- 1934 Birth of American composer Roger REYNOLDS in Detroit, MI.
- 1938 Birth of Nina Lebedeva Soprano
Born 18 July 1938 Moscow
Debut as Micaela in Carmen (Bizet) 1967
Teachers:- O Lebedeva, Elisabetta Shumskaya
- 1938 Birth of Jean Dupouy Tenor
Born 18 July 1938 Pau
Teachers:- Jean Giraudeau, Louis Musy
Created Detective & Doctor in Schliemann (Jolas)
- 1949 Death of Czech composer Vitezslav Novak in Skutec, Czechoslovakia. b-Kamenice, Czechoslovakia, 5 DEC 1870.
- 1951 Death of Felice Kaschowska Soprano
Born 12 May 1867 Warsaw Died 18 July 1951
Debut as Alice in Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer) 1888
Teachers:- Jean de Reszke, Joseph Gansbacher, Enric Tamderlik, Troschei
Pupils :- Maria Nemeth, Flora Nielsen
- 1954 Birth of Alisdair Elliott Tenor
Born 18 July 1954 Hamilton
Debut as Don Curzio in Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) 1981
Teachers:- Lilian Liddell, Laura Sarti
Created Servant in Bakxai (Buller)
Gerry in Tourist Variation (MacMillan)
- 1954 Birth of American composer Tobias PICKER in NYC.
- 1958 Death of Eyvind Laholm Tenor
Born 1894 Wisconsin Died 18 July 1958
Debut as Canio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1927
Teacher :- William S Brady
- 1961 Birth of Timothy Wilson Counter-Tenor
Born 18 July 1961 Winchester
Debut as Medoro in Orlando (Handel) 1985
Teacher :- Geoffrey Mitchell
Created Mani in Resurrection (Maxwell-Davis)
Androgyne in Viajero Indiscreto (De Pablo)
Shamsi in Gassir (Loevendie)
Frau Schmetterling in Freudiani (Woolfson)
- 1965 Birth of Kasarova, Vesselina (m/s) Bulgarian. b. Stara Zagora, July 18, 1965;
MET: Début: Apr. 11, 2002 [Rosina] Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2002) 3
perf., 1 work.
- 1972 Birth of American composer Joseph Gentry STEPHENS.
- 1972 FP of Panufnik's Violin Concerto. Yehudi Menuhin, soloist in London.
- 1974 Death of Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi Soprano
Born 2 Nov 1886 Paris Died 18 July 1974
Debut in Paul et Virginie (Masse) 1917
Teachers:- Enzo Ciampi-Cellai (father), Cecile Ritter-Ciampi (mother)
Created Donna Irene in Oui des Jeunes Filles (Hahn)
- 1976 FP of Stockhausen's multi-media piece Sirius at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
- 1986 Death of American baritone Edgar Keenon in Louisville. b-Cincinnati, 1920.
- 1988 Death of Petre Munteanu Tenor
Born 26 Nov 1916 Campina Rumania Died 18 July 1988
Debut 1940
Teacher :- Hermann Weissborn
Created Emigrant in Intolleranza 1960 (Nono)
- 2003 FP of a piano piece by French composer Claude Debussy found in 2001 played in the Blidoe church in the Baltic archipelago of Roslagen in central Sweden. Composed in 1917 during World War I, he gave the piece to his coal supplier for keeping his house warm during the winter in Paris.
Entitled The evening that was lit up by the embers played by French pianist Jean-Pierre Armengaud. See Yahoo/AP story STOCKHOLM, Sweden.
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