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- 1735 FP of G. F. Handel's Organ Concertos Op. 4, nos. 2-3. Was intermission feature during a revival performance of Handel's oratorio Esther at the Covent Garden Theater in London.
- 1748 Birth of English composer William SHIELD in Whickham. d-Brightling, Sussex, 25 JAN 1829.
- 1774 Birth of German composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich WEYSE in Altona. d-Copenhagen, 8 OCT 1842.
- 1778 Death of English composer Thomas Arne in London. b-London, 12 MAR 1710.
- 1782 Birth of Raffaele Monelli Tenor
Born 5 Mar 1782 Fermo Died 14 Sep 1859
Teacher :- Giordaniello
Created Bertrando in Inganno Felice (Rossini)
Dorvil in Scala di Seta (Rossini)
Sang in premiere of Vestale (Mercadante)
- 1805 Birth of French composer and harpsichordist Theodore LaBarre Berry in Paris. d-Paris, 9 MAR 1870.
- 1818 FP of G. Rossini's opera Mosč in Egitto 'Moses in Egypt' at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
- 1824 Birth of Anne-Arsene Charton-Demeur Soprano
Born 5 Mar 1824 Saujon Died 30 Nov 1892
Debut as Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 1842
Teacher :- Bizot
Created Beatrice in Beatrice et Benedict (Berlioz)
Dido in Trojans (Berlioz)
- 1835 Birth of William STEINWAY son of piano manufacturer.
- 1850 Birth of American composer Daniel Brink TOWNER. d-1919.
- 1853 Birth of American composer Arthur FOOTE,
in Salem, MA. For 32 years organist at First Unitarian Church
in Boston. d-Boston, 8 APR 1937.
- 1853 Founding of piano company by H. E. Steinway and his sons in
NYC.
- 1856 Birth of Robert Watkin-Mills Bass-Baritone
Born 5 Mar 1856 Painswick Gloucester 10 Dec 1930
Debut 1885
Teacher :- Edwin Holland, Federico Blasco
- 1856 Covent Garden Opera House in London was destroyed by fire.
- 1868 FP of Boito's opera Mefistofele at the Teatro della Scala in Milan.
- 1873 Death of French composer Alexis De Castillon in Paris. b-Chartres, 13 DEC 1838.
- 1877 Death of German conductor and composer Ernst Julius Otto in Dresden. b-Konigstein, 1 SEP 1804.
- 1878 Birth of American ragtime composer Egbert Van ALSTYNE. d-1951.
- 1882 Birth of Pauline Donalda Soprano
Born 5 Mar 1882 Montreal Died 22 Oct 1970
Debut as Manon in Manon (Massenet) 1904
Teachers:- Edmond Duvernoy, Clara Lichtenstein, Babette Rosen
Paul Lherie
Pupils :- Michelle Bonhomme, Joseph Rouleau, Clarice Carson
Created Ah-Joe in Oracolo (Leoni)
Sang in premiere of Chatterton (Leoncavallo)
- 1887 Birth of Brazilian composer Heitor VILLA-LOBOS in Rio de Janiero. d-
Rio, 17 NOV 1959.
- 1888 Death of Austrian composer and pianist Leopold Von Meyer in Dreden. b-Baden, 20 DEC 1816.
- 1889 FP of Edward MacDowell's Piano Concerto No. 2 composer as
soloist in NYC.
- 1891 (4th?) Birth of Spanish composer Frederico Moreno TORROBA aka Federico.
d-1982.
- 1892 FP of S. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1.
- 1893 Birth of Alessio de Paolis Tenor
Born 5 Mar 1893 Rome Died 9 Mar 1964
Debut as Duke in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1919
Teacher :- Di Pietro
Sang in premiere of La Favola d'Orfeo (Casella)
Basi e Bote (Pick-Magiagelli)
Bisbetica domata (Persico)
Vedova Scaltra (Wolf-Ferrari)
Donna Serpente (Casella)
Farsa amorosa (Zandonai)
- 1899 Birth of English composer Patrick HADLEY in Cambridge. d-King's Lynn, 17 DEC 1973.
- 1900 Birth of Josef Gostic Tenor
Born 5 Mar 1900 Stara Loka Slovenia Died 25 Dec 1963
Debut 1929
Created Midas in Liebe der Danae (Strauss)
- 1903 Birth of Gitta Alpar Soprano
Born 5 Mar 1903 Hungary Died 17 Feb 1991
Debut as Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1923
Teacher :- Laura Hilgermann
- 1904 FP of Anatole Liadov's symphonic poem Baba Yaga.
- 1904 FP of Maurice Ravel's String Quartet, by the Heymann Quartet, in Paris.
- 1905 FP of Frederick S. Converse's The Mystic Trumpeter. Philadelphia Orchestra, Fritz Scheel conducting.
- 1907 Dr. Lee De Forest becomes first DeeJay playing Rossini's William Tell
Overture on a radio signal sent from Telharmonic Hall at Broadway and 40th
Street in NYC, to the receiver at the US Naval Yard.
- 1915 Birth of Gregorio Fiasconaro Baritone
Born 5 Mar 1915 Palermo
Debut as Germont in Traviata (Verdi) 1937
Teachers:- Xenia Belmas, Riccardo Stracciari, Mario Sammarco
- 1929 Birth of Sylvia Stahlman Soprano
Born 5 Mar 1929 Nashville Died 19 Aug 1998
Debut as Elvira in Puritani (Bellini) 1951
Teacher :- Toti Dal Monte, Palestrina, Malona
Created Dame Kobold in Dame Kobold (Wimberger)
Dany in Photo of the Colonel (Searle)
Sang in premiere of Panfilo & Lauretta (Chavez)
- 1931 Birth of English composer Anthony HEDGES in Bicester.
- 1931 Birth of Australian
Conductor and horn player
Barry TUCKWELL in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1932 Birth of John Lawrenson Baritone
Born 5 Mar 1932 Fleetwood Died 5 Jul 1993
Debut 1958
Teacher :- Frederick Cox
- 1933 FP of Samuel Barber's Dover Beach for medium voice and string quartet, with mezzo-soprano Rose Bampton and the New York Art Quartet at the French Institute in NYC.
- 1933 FP of Malipiero's Violin Concerto No. 1, in Amsterdam.
- 1938 Birth of Dimiter Petkov Bass
Born 5 Mar 1938 Sofia Bulgaria
Debut as Re in Aida (Verdi) 1964
Teacher :- Christo Brambarov
Created High Priest in Salammbo (Mussorgsky)
- 1940 FP of Aaron Copland's John Henry. CBS radio, Columbia Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, Howard Barlow conducting.
- 1942 FP of John Cage's The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs with text by James Joyce, in New York.
- 1943 (9 MAR?)Birth of English composer David MATTHEWS in London.
- 1944 FP of Walter Piston's Symphony No. 2. National Symphony, Hans Kindler conducting, in Washington D.C.
- 1945 Death of Louise Reuss-Belce Soprano
Born 24 Oct 1860 Vienna Died 5 Mar 1945
Debut as Elsa in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1881
Teachers:- Joseph Gansbacher, Fritz Planck
Pupils :- Paul Bender, Paul Harrison, Wilhelm Strienz, Elsa Alsen
Created Ingewelde in Ingewelde (Schilling)
Sang in premiere of Rubin (D'Albert)
- 1947 Death of Italian composer Alfredo Casella, in Rome. b-Turin, 25 JUL 1883.
- 1948 Birth of English conductor Richard HICKOX in Stokenchurch,
Bucks, England.
- 1950 Birth of American-Australian composer Becky LLEWELLYN in St. Paul, MN.
- 1950 (4 MAR?)Birth of American violinist Eugene FODOR in Turkey Creek, CO.
- 1952 Death of Nikolai Speransky Bass-Baritone
30 Jul 1877 Saratov Died 5 Mar 1952
Debut 1901
Teachers:- Mattia Battistini, Camille Everadi
Pupil :- Hussein Aga Hadjibekov
Created Dodon in Coq D'Or (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Suleyman in Izema (Ippolitov-Ivanov)
- 1953 Death of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in Moscow.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin also died in Moscow on this day which somewhat overshadowed Prokofiev's death. b-Sontsovka, 23 APR 1891.
- 1954 Birth of American composer Jack STAMP in College Park, MD.
- 1961 Death of Richard Bitterauf Baritone
Born 6 Apr 1900 Nurenburg Died 5 Mar 1961
Teacher :- Felix Krueger
- 1965 FP of Walter Piston's Symphony No. 6, Boston Symphony.
- 1973 Death of Polish born, Swiss conductor Paul KLETZKI while rehearsing
the
Royal Liverpool Orchestra.
- 1984 Death of Italian baritone Tito Gobbi. Born 24 Oct 1913 Bassano del Grappa Died 5 Mar 1984
Debut as Rodolfo in Sonnambula (Bellini) 1935
Teachers:- Giulio Crimi, Richard Morton
Pupils :- Janice Cairns, Luca Canonici, Jane Eaglen, Ruth Falcon
Eric Garrett, Haken Haggegard, Louis Berkman,
Mani Mekler, Louis Manikas, Rosalind Horsington
Peter Knapp, Mario Malagnini, Marta Marquez
Created Lord Inferno in Ipocrita Felice (Ghedini)
Storyteller in Tesoro (Napoli)
Sang in premiere of Monte Ivnor (Rosca)
Ecuba (Malipiero)
Locandiera (Persico)
Nozze di Haura (Lualdi)
- 1990 FP of David Ward-Steinman's Intersections II: Borobudur. Canberra Institute of the Arts with percussionist Daryl Pratt, composer at the piano in Australia.
- 2000 Death of Alexander Young Tenor
Born 18 Oct 1920 London Died 5 Mar 2000
Debut as Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss) 1948
Teachers:- Stefan Pollmann, Walter Hyde
Pupils :- David Fieldsend, David Rendall, Nigel Robson,
Anthony Roden
Created Philippe in Dinner Engagement (Berkeley)
Cicero in Catiline Conspiracy (Hamilton)
Popristchin in Diary of a Madman (Searle)
Charles Darnley in A Tale of two Cities (Benjamin)
- 2003 FP of Bright Sheng's Tone Poem for Pipa, Sheng, Cello, Piano, and Orchestra Song and Dance of Tears with Wu Man, pipa; Wu Tong, sheng; Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano. New York Philharmonic, David Zinman conducting.
- 2004 FP of Gerard Schurmann“s Trio by Richard Hawkins, clarinet; Peter Rejto (RY“toh), cello; Christiana Dahl, piano. Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival in Tucson, AZ.
- 2005 Death of Romanian-American conductor Sergiu Comissiona in Oklahoma City, OK. b-1929.
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