1655 Death of German opera composer and organist Sigmund Staden in Kalmbach. His songspiel
Seelwig was the first operatic work to be published, (1644). bap-Kulbach, 6 NOV 1607.
1752 Birth of American composer Abraham WOOD. A native of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and drummer during the Revolutionary War. d-1804.
1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for the 1st
time.
1802 Birth of Scottish tenor John TEMPLETON. Chosen by Malibran to support
her performances in London.
1806 FP of ISOUARD: "Idala ou la sultanine" Paris (1806).
1815 Birth of Norwegian organist and composer Hermann Severin von LOVENSKJOLD.
1829 Mendelssohn started his Scotch Symphony in Edinburgh.
1852 FP of Graffigna: "L'assedio de Malta" Padua, 1852.
1855 FP of Offenbach: "Le Rêve d'une nuit d'été" Paris, 1855.
1873 Birth of Rio, Anita (s) (1873)-1971) U.S. (98) b. Almeda, CA, July 30, 1873;
d. Aug. 26, 1971: Sang in concert with the Orpheus Club,
Springfield, MA, Messiah (1905). Debut as Elvira in Don Giovanni (Mozart) 1909
Teachers:- Florenza D'Arona, J Armour Galloway
1877 Birth of Belgian composer Charles RADOUX.
1877 FP of LONDON: Palace. Concert Black, Andrew (b) (1859-1920) Scot. (1887).
1878 Birth of Swiss violinist Alfred POCHON near Lausanne. Member of the
Flonzaley Quartet.
1886 Birth of Swedish composer Algot HAQUINIUS in Sveg. d-Stockholm, 6 FEB 1966.
1890 Birth of Italian-American composer Anthony Louis SCARMOLIN in Schio. d-Union City, NJ 13 JUL 1969.
1890 Birth of WEHNER: George (com/opera) (1890-1970) U.S. b. Detroit, July 30,
1890; d. Brooklyn, Jan. 12, 1970: Opera: Composed fourteen operas.
1893 DEATH: Saroya, Bianca (s) (1893-1981) U.S. (88) b. Germantown, PA,
1893; d. New York, July 30, 1981:
1899 Birth of English pianist and accompanist Gerald MOORE in Watford, July 30, 1899;
d. Buckinghamshire, Mar. 13, 1987: Accompanied most of the major
vocal artists of his time in recital and on disc.
1906 Birth of composer Ludovit RAJTER in Pezinok, Slovak Republic. d-Bratislava, Slovak Republic 6 JUL 2000.
1907 Death of German-American pianist and teacher Carl Wolfsohn. Noted for
Wagner performances. He founded the choral group Beethoven Musical Society, later known as the Apollo Musical Club.
1912 Birth of Dietrich, Eleanor Lausch (s) (1912-2001) U.S. b. Brooklyn, July 30,
1912; d. Island Park, NY, May 4, 2001:
1914 Birth of soprano Geissler, Melanie.
1916 Birth of composer Leonard Gilbert RATNER. Professor Emeritus of Music, Stanford University. b-1916.
1921 Birth of American pianist Grant JOHANNESON in Salt Lake City, UT. d-Berlin, 27 MAR 2005. He was president of the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1977 to 1985. His first wife, Helen Taylor, died in an auto accident in 1950. His marriage to cellist Zara Nelsova ended in divorce.
1937 Birth of Landi, Tonny (t) Dane b. Copenhagen. Debut as Alfredo in Traviata (Verdi) 1966
Teachers:- Luigi Ricci, Karl Schmitt-Walter
1943 Death of English composer Benjamin Dale in London. b-London, 17 JUL 1885.
1944 Birth of English soprano Teresa CAHILL in Maidenhead. Début [Rosina] Il Barbiere
di Siviglia (1967). Cahill's operatic career began at Glyndebourne,
where she sang the [First Lady] Die Zauberflöte and later [Alice
Ford] Falstaff. She has sung over 100 performances at Covent Garden,
including Der Rosenkavalier [Sophie] with Carlos Kleiber, Don
Giovanni [Zerlina] & [Elvira] and La Clemenza di Tito [Servilia],
which she also sang at La Scala. As a recitalist she has specialized
in the songs of Richard Strauss and Elgar, and in the field of
contemporary music, Richard Rodney Bennett, John Casken, David Blake
and Robert Simpson have all written works for her. Teachers:- John Caunce, Andrew Field, Audrey Langford, Joyce Newton
Vera Rozsa
Created Lady & First Madwoman in We Came to the River (Henze)
Pauline Lecclerc in Toussaint (Blake)
1949 Birth of Canadian composer and pianist Alexina Diane LOUIE in Vancouver.
1953 Birth of Marie Angel Soprano
Born 30 July 1953 Australia
Teachers:- Peter Gellhorn, Audrey Langford, Donald Munro, Geoffrey Parsons
Erich Vietheer
Created Morgan Le Fay in Gawain (Birtwistle)
Hecates & Oracle of Dead in Mask of Orpheus (Birtwistle)
1966 Death of Marcella Lindh Jellinek Soprano
Born 1867 Kalamazoo Died 30 July 1966
Teacher :- Hedwig von Reichenstein
1966 FP of KAUFMANN: "Hoosier Tale" Bloomington, IN (1966).
1968 Death of Icelandic composer Jon Leifs at age 68, in Reykjavik. b-1899.
1970 Death of Hungarian-American conductor and pianist George Szell in Cleveland. Cleveland Orchestra. b-Budapest, 7 JUN 1897.
1983 FP of Michael Torke's Ceremony of Innocence for chamber quintet, by fellows of the Tanglewood Center, Gunther Schuller conducting at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA.
1991 Death of Bianca Saroya Soprano
Born Philadelphia Died 30 July 1991
Debut as Eurydice in Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) 1916
2005 FP of the revised version of Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar "Fountain of Tears" at the Santa Fe Opera. Fort Worth Symphony music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct and Peter Sellars will direct the production, which will include soprano Dawn Upshaw.
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