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- 1732 Death of Italian composer Francesco Bartolommeo Conti in Vienna. b-Firenze, 20 JAN 1681.
- 1752 Death of German born English composer and conductor John Christopher Pepusch at age 85 in London. b-Berlin, 1667. In
London from 1700, arranged The Beggar's Opera.
- 1776 Birth of English publisher Samuel CHAPPELL, founder of the English music
publishing firm.
- 1781 Birth of American composer Anthony Philip HEINRICH. d-1861.
- 1828 Birth of Marie Geistlinger Soprano
Born 20 July 1828 Graz Died 28 Sep 1903
Created Rosalinde in Fledermaus (Strauss J)
Fantasca in Indigo (Strauss J)
- 1868 Birth of Polish-Bohemian composer Johann Friedrich KITTL in Lissa. d-Lissa, Prussia, 20 JUL 1868.
- 1870 Birth of Austrian composer, violinist and conductor Luigi von KUNITS in Vienna. In United States from 1893. Toronto
Symphony from 1915.
- 1871 Birth of Australian pianist Ernest HUTCHESON in Melbourne. Naturalized American. President of Juilliard School of
Music in 1937.
- 1872 Birth of French composer Deodat de SEVERAC, Saint Félix,
Haute-Garonne.
Studied at the Toulouse Music Conservatory, 1893-1896. Schola
Cantorum, Paris, 1896-1907. Composition with
Albéric Magnard and Isaac Albéniz. Vincent d'Indy, piano, Charles
Bordes, choral conducting. He wrote much of his piano music at this time.
d-Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales 24 MAR 1921.
- 1873 Birth of Polish composer Witold MALISZEWSKI. Director of Chopin School in
Warsaw.
- 1877 Birth of Hermann Jadlowker Tenor
Born 20 July 1877 Riga Latvia Died 13 May 1953
Debut as Gomez in Nachtlager von Granada (Kreutzer)
Teacher :- Joseph Gansbacher
Pupils :- Heinrich Tessmer, Hans Frehlich, Josef Pollak
Created King's Son in Konigskinder (Humperdinck)
Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss)
- 1895 Birth of Mercedes Capsir Soprano
Born 20 July 1895 Barcelona Died 14 Mar 1969
Debut as Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1914
Teacher :- Bidai Neunei
Pupil :- Juan Oncina
Sang in premiere of Re (Leoncavallo)
- 1903 Birth of Anny Helm Soprano
Born 20 July 1903 Vienna
Debut 1924
Teachers:- Gertrude Forstel, Ernst Grenzebach, Marie Gutheil-Schroder
- 1908 Birth of Swedish pianist and composer Gunnar de FRUMERIE nr Stockholm. d-Morby, 9 SEP 1987.
- 1910 Birth of Czech born British conductor Vilem TAUSKY.
- 1914 Birth of Hermann Uhde Baritone
Born 20 July 1914 Bremen 10 Oct 1965
Debut as Titurel in Parsifal (Wagner)
Teachers:- Philip Kraus, Mme Uhde, Hans Duhan
Created Creon in Antigone (Orff)
Faust / Bloom / Josef K in Faust III (Bentzon)
Elis in Bergwerk zu Falun (Wagner-Regeny)
- 1920 Birth of Andrew Foldi Bass
Born 20 July 1920 Budapest
Debut as Biondello in Taming of the Shrew (Giannini) 1954
Teachers:- Maria Carpi, Richard De Young, Martial Singher
Created Mr Parker in Blood Moon (Dello Joio)
John W Diller in Blackwood & Co (Schibler)
- 1920 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Grande Suite from the staged work "The Soldier's Tale," at Wigmore Hall, with Ernest Ansermet conducting in London.
- 1923 Birth of Franco Calabrese Bass-Baritone
Born 20 July 1923 Palermo Died 13 Nov 1992
Debut 1947
Teacher :- Pizzorusso
Sang in premiere of Dottore di Ventro (Vlad)
Canto del Ciglio (Malipiero)
Job (Dallapiccola)
Due Timidi (Rota)
Viaggio D'Europa (Rieti)
Linguaggio dei Fiori (Rossellini)
Canto del Cigno (Chailly)
- 1924 FP of Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade for chamber ensemble, in Donaueschingen, Germany.
CD-Schoenberg: Five Orchestra Pieces, Survivor from Warsaw
1931 Birth of Gregory Dempsey Tenor
Born 20 July 1931 Melbourne
Debut as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Mozart) 1954
Teachers:- Annie Portnoy, Henry Portnoy
Created Bothwell in Mary Queen of Scots (Musgrave)
Boconnion in Mines of Sulphur (Rodney-Bennett)
Tom Wayson in Decision (Musgrave)
1932 Birth of Koren-American avante-garde composer-artist Nam June PAIK
in Seoul,Korea. He studied with Stockhausen and Cage,
He worked in Germany and the USA, exploring mixed media and video
techniques.
Works include Opera Sextronique written for cellist Charlotte
Moorman, who performed the piece topless, and hommage à john cage where two pianos are destroyed in the performance.
1939 Death of British conductor Sir Dan Godfrey, in Bournemouth, England.
1939 Death of Jeannette Vreeland Soprano
Born 30 Sep 1896 Los Angeles Died 20 July 1939
Teachers:- Percy Rector Stevens, Hetty Louise Sinf, John Wilcox
1942 Birth of Lou Ann Wyckoff Soprano
Born 20 July 1942 Berkeley California
Debut as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Mozart) 1967
Teachers:- Armen Boyajian, Irmgard Hartmann, Gibnor King, Vivian Long
Joseph Metternich
Created Rosaline in Love's Labour Lost (Nabokov)
1942 FP of Miaskovsky's Symphony No. 23, in Moscow.
1945 Birth of Vladimir Malchenko Baritone
Born 20 July 1945 Smolensk
Debut as Yeletsky in Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky) 1971
Teacher :- V G Sopina
1947 Birth of Colette Alliot-Lugaz Soprano
Born 20 July 1947
Created Page in Passion de Gilles (Boesman)
1956 Birth of American composer Michael GORDON in Miami Beach, FL.
1957 Birth of Austrian composer Gernot WOLFGANG in Bad Gastein, Austria.
1957 Death of Emil Schipper Baritone
Born 1882 Vienna Died 20 July 1957
Debut as Telramud in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1904
Teacher :- Guarino
1958 Birth of American composer Michael GORDON in Miami, FL, raised in Managua, Nicaragua. Also see publisher bio.
1958 FP of Xenakis' Achorripsis for 21 instruments, in Brussels.
1962 Birth of Russian composer Philipp KOLTSOV in Moscow.
1970 FP of Morton Feldman's Mme. Press Died Last Week at Ninety, an orchestral work dedicated to his Russian piano teacher, in St. Paul de Venice, France.
1996 Death of Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller Soprano
Born 7 Sep 1909 Kiev Died 20 July 1996
Teacher :- A P Shperling
1997 Death of Russian ballet dancer Alexandra Danilova in NYC.
2004 FP of Zhou Long's The Immortal for orchestra. BBC Proms concert, BBC Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting. Also see:
BBC.
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