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- 1567 Death of English composer Thomas CAMPION in London. b-London, 12 FEB 1567.
- 1643 Death of Italian organist and composer Girolamo Frescobaldi in Rome, at age 59. b-Ferrara, 9 SEP 1583.
- 1736? (See Feb 19)FP of Handel's cantata Alexander in London.
- 1743 FP of Handel's oratorio Samson and possibly the Organ Concerto Op. 7, no. 2, in London.
- 1753 FP of Rousseau's finished version of Le Devin du village at the Paris Opera.
- 1764 Birth of American composer Jeremiah INGALLS in Andover, MA. d-1838.
- 1777 Death of Austrian composer Georg Christoph Wagenseil at age 62, in Vienna. b-Vienna, 29 JAN 1715.
- 1779 Birth of German composer Gottfried WEBER, founder of the Mannheim
Conservatory. d-Kreuznach, 21 SEP 1839.
- 1802 Birth of Matilde Palazzesi Soprano
Born 1 Mar 1802 Montecarotto Died 3 July 1842
Debut as Zelmira in Zelmira (Rossini) 1824
Teacher :- Giacomo Solarto
Created Elisabetta in Conte D'Essex (Mercadante)
Sang in premiere of Il Conte di Chalais (Lillo)
Bianca Turenga (Balducci)
Roberto e Costanza (Formasini)
- 1810 Birth of Polish composer Frederick CHOPIN in Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw, Poland. d-Paris, 17 OCT 1849.
BOOK-Frederick Chopin As a Man and Musician
1818 Birth of Julius Gunther Tenor / Teacher of Singing
Born 1 Mar 1818 Goteborg Died 22 Mar 1904
Debut as Fra Diavolo in Fra Diavolo (Auber) 1838
Teacher :- Manuel Garcia Jnr
Pupils :- John Forsell, Ellen Gulbranson, Davida Hesse, Matilda Jungstedt
Thor Mandahl, Anne Norrie, Arvid Odmann, Karolina Oestberg
Emil Stiebel, Ernst Svedelius, Ake Wallgren, Wilhelmina Gelhaar
Selma Ek, Fritz Arlberg, Johannes Elmblad
1824 Schubert finishes his Octet for Strings and Winds, Op 166.
1826 Birth of Welsh harpist John THOMAS, served Queen Victoria.
d- 19 MAR 1913.
1832 Birth of German composer Friedrich GRUTZMACHER in Dreden. d-Dresden, 23 FEB 1903.
1833 Death of Pierre-Jean Garat Tenor / Teacher of Singing
Born 26 April 1762 Bordeaux Died 1 Mar 1833
Teacher :- Franz Beck
Pupils :- Mme Barbier-Walbonne, Marie Julie Boulanger, Alexandrine Branchu
Guillaume Cassel, Giuseppina Ronzi De Begnis, Desperamons,
Mlle Duchamp, Cecile Duret, Alexis de Garaude, Nicolas Levasseur
Louis Nourrit, Louis Antoine Ponchard, Marie Sophie Ponchard
Mme Rigaut, Roland
1835 Birth of English composer Ebenezer PROUT. d-Hackney, 5 DEC
1909.
1868 Birth of Lampriere Pringle Bass
Born 1 Mar 1868 Hobart Tasmania Died 23 Oct 1914
Debut 1891
Teacher :- Julius Stockhausen
1872 Birth of Louis Treumann Tenor
Born 1 Mar 1872 Vienna Died July 1944
Created Josef in Wienerblut (Strauss J)
Danilo in Merry Widow (Lehar)
Sang in premiere of Drei Wunsche (Ziehrer)
Rastelbinder (Lehar)
Gottergatte (Lehar)
Furstenkind (Lehar)
Eva (Lehar)
Sirene (Fall)
Dollarprinzessin (Fall)
Sterngucker (Lehar)
Bajadere (Kalman)
1877 Birth of Russian pianist Isabella VENGEROVA in Minsk. d-NYC, 7 FEB 1956. Taught at Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Among her students were Leonard Bernstein, Lukas Foss, Samuel Barber, Gary Graffman, and Nicholas Slonimsky. Her teaching ideas resulted in legato sound at the piano. Her technical ideas about wrist motion and weight transfer allowed her students to develop great fluency.
1878 Birth of French composer Gabriel DuPONT in Caen. d-Vésinet, 3 AUG 1914.
1882 Death of German composer Theodor KULLAK in Berlin. b-Krotoschin, 12 SEP 1818.
1883 Birth of Austrian pianist Bertha JAHN-BEER in Vienna.
1886 Birth of German composer and conductor Hans STIEBER in Naumberg.
1900 Birth of Keith Falkner Bass-Baritone
Born 1 Mar 1900 Sawston Cambridge
Teachers:- Albert Garcia, Ernst Grenzebach, Theodore Lierhammer
Harry Plunkett-Greene, Hugh Allen
1905 Birth of Ernst Wolff Baritone
Born 1 Mar 1905 Baden Baden Died 21 Jan 1992
Teachers:- Vittorio Moratti, Johannes Willy
1910 FP of Debussy's
L'Enfant prodigue as an
opera, at Covent Garden in London.
1912 Death of George Grossmith Baritone
Born 9 Dec 1847 London Died 1 Mar 1912
Created John Wellington Wells in Sorcerer (Sullivan)
Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore (Sullivan)
Bunthorne in Patience (Sullivan)
Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe (Sullivan)
Gama in Princess Ida (Sullivan)
Ko-Ko in Mikado (Sullivan)
Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore (Sullivan)
Jack Point in Yeoman of the Guard (Sullivan)
1914 Death of Swedish composer, violinist and conductor Tor Aulin in Stockholm. b-Stockholm, 10 SEP 1866. Brother of composer Laura Valborg.
1914 First complete performance of Stravinsky's
Petrouchka
under Monteux, Casella at piano, in Paris.
1916 FP in USAmerica of Mahler's Symphony No. 8. Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting.
1918 Death of Swedish composer and organist Johan Gustav Sjogren at age 64 in Stockholm. b-Stockholm, 16 JUN 1858.
1919 The Vienna State Opera strikes, protesting hiring of Richard Strauss saying he was paid too much and
would produce only his own material.
1926 Birth of Reinhold Bartel Tenor
Born 1 Mar 1926 Trier Died 10 Aug 1996
Sang in premiere of Yolimba (Killmayer)
1927 Birth of Lucine Amara Soprano
Born 1 Mar 1927 Hartford Connecticut
Debut as Angelic Voice in Don Carlos (Verdi) 1947
Teacher :- Stella Eisner-Eyn
1939 Birth of Cuban composer Leo BROUWER in Havana.
1940 Birth of American composer and guitarist Ralph TOWNER.
1940 Birth of Rotraud Hansmann Soprano
Born 1 Mar 1940 Graz
Debut as Boy in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1960
Teacher :- Paula Lindberg
1942 FP of Shostakovich
Sym No 7 Leningrad in Kuibishev, Soviet capital in WWII.
1947 Birth of English cellist Moray WELSH.
1947 Birth of Ian Caddy Bass-Baritone
Born 1 Mar 1947 Southampton
Debut as Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart) 1970
Teachers:- Henry Cummings, Iris Dell'Acqua, Otakar Kraus
Created Boucannier in Toussaint (Blake)
1950 FP of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul at the Shubert Theatre, in Philadelphia. The opera opened in New York City on 15 MAR 1950. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
1950 FP, in public, of S. Prokofiev's Cello Sonata, Op. 119 at the Moscow Conservatory, by cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and pianist Sviatoslav Richter. There was a private performance by the same artists at the House of the Union of Composers on 6 DEC 1949.
1954 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, a riveting singer known for her fearsome vocal and dramatic power, whether in opera or the cantatas of Bach. She died 3 JUL 2006 peacefully at her home in Santa Fe, N.M., according to Richard Gaddes, general director of the Santa Fe Opera. She was 52.
1951 Birth of American composer Elliott SHARP in Cleveland.
1955 Birth of American composer Charles AMES.
1958 Birth of Yvonne Howard Mezzo-Soprano
Born 1 Mar 1958 Stafford
Debut as Fanny in Intermezzo (Strauss)
Teachers:- David Johnston, Joseph Ward
1958 FP of Pizzetti's opera Assassinio della cattedrale, based on T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral at the Teatro della Scala in Milan.
1959 Birth of American composer Laura KARPMAN.
1960 Death of Florica Cristoforeanu Mezzo-Soprano
Born 16 May 1887 Rimnicul Sarat Rumania Died 1 Mar 1960
Debut as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 1908
Teachers:- Bordilla, Filippi, Vaneri
Created Mariola in Fra Gherardo (Pizzetti)
Sang in premiere of Madonna Imperia (Alfano)
Vedova Scaltra (Wolf-Ferrari)
Ivania (Pizzi)
1961 Death of Felipe Romito Bass-Baritone
Born 25 Mar 1893 Buenos Aires Died 1 Mar 1961
Debut as Colline in Boheme (Puccini) 1920
Pupils :- Renato Sassola, Helena Arizmendi
Sang in premiere of Siripo (Boero)
1962 Birth of Russian soprano Galina GORCHAKOVA.
1964 Death of Norman Cordon Bass-Baritone
Born 20 Jan 1904 Washington Died 1 Mar 1964
Debut as Re in Aida (Verdi) 1933
Teachers:- Gaetano De Luca, Hadley Outland
Created Greek God in Island God (Menotti)
1967 Death of Jeanne Billa-Azema Mezzo-Soprano
Born 4 Mar 1879 Paris Died 1 Mar 1967
Debut 1904
Pupils :- Marthe Nespoulos
Sang in premiere of On ne badine pas avec l'amour (Pierne)
Ghismonde (Fevrier)
1970 Death of Sven Nilsson Bass
Born 11 May 1898 Gafle Gafle Switzerland Died 1 Mar 1970
Debut as Herald in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1930
Teachers:- Ivar Andresen, Gillis Bratt, Hjaldis Ingebjart
Created Peneios in Daphne (Strauss)
Sang in premiere of Rote Steifel (Sutermeister)
Svart ar Vitt (Boldemann)
Romeo und Julia (Sutermeister)
Portrait (Rosenberg)
Der Verlorene Sohn (Heger)
Der Sturm (Atterberg)
1971 Birth of British pianist Thomas ADES in London.
1975 Death of Merle Alcock Mezzo-Soprano
Born 1890 Andover Miss Died 1 Mar 1975
Debut as Beppe in Amico Fritz (Mascagni) Nov 1923
Teachers:- Wade Hinshaw, Paul Savage, Herbert Witherspoon
Pupils :- Eileen Farrell, George Maran,
Created Ase in King's Henchman (Deems Taylor)
1975 Death of Angelo Notariello Tenor
Born 1892 Died 1 Mar 1975
Teachers:- Fernando De Lucia, Agostino Roche
1976 Death of French conductor and composer Jean Martinon at age 66, in Paris. b-Lyon, 10 JAN 1910.
1993 Death of Nicola Monti Tenor
Born 21 Nov 1920 Milan Died 1 Mar 1993
Debut as Duke in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1941
1994 Death of Russian-American composer Alexei Haieff. b-Blagoveschensk, 25 AUG 1914
2003 Death of American soprano Nadine Connor. b-20 FEB 1907. Was a lyric soprano who appeared frequently at the Metropolitan Opera. ~ died at age 96.
LA, Times, Obituary.
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