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- 1749 Birth of librettist Lorenzo da Ponte
(Emanuele Conigliano) near
Venice. Collaborated with
Mozart on Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi fan
tutte.
Was a trustee of and Professor of Italian studies at Columbia College in
New York. d-1838.
- 1785 FP of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 K 467, in C Major concerto, composer was soloist, at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Mozart: Great Piano Concertos
1808 Birth of Napoleone Moriani Tenor
Born 10 Mar 1808 Florence Died 4 Mar 1878
Debut in Arabi Nelle Gallie (Pacini)
Teacher :- Ruga
Created Carlo in Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti)
Enrico in Maria di Rudenz (Donizetti)
Egmondo in Duca D'Alba (Pacini)
Lorenzo Alopo in Giovanni II (Coccia)
Armando in Due Illustre Rivali (Mercadante)
Luigi Rolla in Luigi Rolla (F Ricci)
Linceo in Dirce (A Peri)
Sang in premiere of La Sposa di Messina (Vaccai)
1823 Birth of Italian contralto Marietta ALBONI, studied with
Rossini. d-France, 23 JUN 1894. Debut as Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) 1839
Teachers:- Gioacchino Rossini, Bafioli, Mme Bertolotti
Domenico Mombelli
Created Zerline in Corbeille D'Orange (Auber)
Berenice in Ebrea (Pacini)
Sang in premiere of Lara (Salvi)
Consuelo (Gordigiani)
1923 Birth of Theodor Wachtel Tenor
Born 10 Mar 1823 Hamburg Died 14 Nov 1893
Debut Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 1849
Teachers:- Eckhardt, Julie Grandjean
1832 Death of Italian composer Muzio Clementi in Evesham, England at
the age of
80.
1837 FP of S. Mercadante's opera Il Giuramento 'The Oath' in Milan.
1839 Birth of American organist and composer Dudley BUCK in
Hartford, CT. d- 6 OCT
1909.
1844 Birth of Spanish composer and violinist Pablo Martin Meliton de SARASATE, in
Pamplona. d- 20 SEP 1908.
1847 Death of Marianna Sessi Soprano
Born 1776 Rome Died 10 Mar 1847
Debut in premiere of Giuochi D'Agrigento (Paisiello) 16 May 1792
Sangin premiere of Cleopatra (Weigl)
1870 Death of Czech-born composer and pianist Ignaz Moscheles at age 75, in Leipzig.
1872 Birth of English-American composer, teacher and music critic Felix BOROWSKI in Burton, England. d-Chicago, 6 SEP 1956. Born of Polish father and lived his entire adult life in Chicago. Composed three sonatas (1904, 1906 and 1924) and an earlier suite (1900). Romantic works in the French style of Guilmant or Widor. Chicago Symphony premiered 17 of his compositions and arrangements 1910-1950.
1874 Birth of Andre Allard Bass-Baritone
Born 10 Mar 1874 Paris Died 1938
Debut 1897
Created Sforza in La Reine Fiammette (Leroux)
Eurymaque in Penelope (Faure)
Sang in premiere of Les Noces Corinthiennes (Busser)
Les Quatre Journees (Bruneau)
La Carmelite (Hahn)
Fille de Roland (Rabaud)
Aphrodite (Erlanger)
Leone (Samuel-Rousseau)
1875 FP of Karl Goldmark's opera Die Königin von Saba 'The Queen of Sheba', at the Court Opera Hofoper in Vienna.
1877 FP of Borodin's Second Symphony, Napravnik,
conducting, in St. Petersburg. Borodin: Sym No 2 with
In the Steppes of Central Asia
1880 FP of John Knowles Paine's Symphony No. 2 Spring. Theodore Thomas conducting in Boston.
John Knowles Paine: Symphony No. 2
1884 Birth of Spanish coloratura Maria BARRIENTOS. d-France, 8
AUG 1946. Debut as Amina in Sonnambula (Bellini) 24 Jul 1898
Teacher :- Francesco Bonet
Pupils :- Helena Arizmendi, Piero Pauli
1885 FP of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, in Munich.
Bruckner: The Complete Symphonies
1888 Death of Ciro Pinsuti Composer / Teacher of Singing
Born 9 May 1829 Sinalunga Died 10 Mar 1888
Pupils :- Giulia Grisi, Giovanni Mario, Giorgio Ronconi
1888 FP of Cesar Franck's Psyche, in Paris.
Franck: Psyché; Le Chasseur maudit
1892 Birth of English soprano Dame Eva TURNER in Oldham. d-London, 16
JUN 1990. Debut in Tannhauser (Wagner) 1917
Teachers:- Edgardo Levy, Gigia Levy, Albert Richards-Broad
Dan Rootham, Mary Wilson
Pupils :- Josephine Barstow, Eric Garrett, Rita Hunter, Robert Knie
Gwyneth Jones, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Amy Shuard
Pauline Tinsley, Elizabeth Vaughan, Anne Wilkens,
Linda Ester Gray, Ann Hood
1892 Birth of Swiss composer Arthur Oscar HONEGGER in La Havre,
France. A member
'Les
Six'. d-27 NOV 1955.
1896 Birth of Georg Wieter Bass
Born 10 Mar 1896 Hanover Died 20 Mar 1988
Teachers:- Hans Emge, F Northolt, Franz Xavier Battisti
Sang in premiere of Der Mond (Orff)
Don Juan de Manara (Tomasi)
Der Tag im Licht (Grimm)
Friedenstag (Strauss)
Capriccio (Strauss)
Liebe de Danae (Strauss)
1908 Birth of Owen Brannigan Bass
Born 10 Mar 1908 Annitsford Died 9 May 1973
Debut as Sarastro in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1943
Created Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)
Noye in Noye's Fludde (Briten)
Swallow in Peter Grimes (Britten)
Collatinus in Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Hasselbacher in Our Man in Havana (Williamson)
Courtras in Moon & Sixpence (Gardner)
Agenor in Violins of St Jacques (Williamson)
Sang in premiere of English Eccentrics (Williamson)
1910 Birth of John Hargreaves Baritone
Born 10 Mar 1910 Colne Lancs Died 5 Feb 1991
Debut as Valentin in Faust (Gounod) 1936
Teacher :- Frederick Austin
Pupil :- Malcolm Rivers
Created Charles Strickland in Moon & Sixpence(Gardner)
1910 Death of German composer Carl Reinecke at age 85, in Leipzig.
1915 Birth of English conductor Sir Charles GROVES in London. d-
London, 20 JUN 1992.
1916 FP of Enrique Granados' Intermezzo & Epilogue from 'Goyescas'. Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting.
1921 Birth of Yugoslavian-Hungarian violinist Robert VIROVAI. Student of Hubay.
1932 FP of Wallingford Riegger's Dichotomy for orchestra, in Berlin.
1934 Birth of Sergio Pezzetti Bass
Born 10 Mar 1934 Perugia
Debut as Zaccaria in Nabucco (Verdi) 1960
Teachers:- Robert D'Alessio, Aldo Zeetti
1934 Death of Hermann Klein
Born 23 Jul 1856 Norwich Died 10 Mar 1934
Teacher :- Manuel Garcia Jnr
Pupil :- Ruth Vincent
1940 Birth of American pianist, composer and teacher Francis SCHWARTZ. d-NYC, JAN 2002.
1942 Birth of American composer Daniel LENTZ in Latrobe, PA.
1943 Birth of American composer Stephen MONTAGUE in Syracuse, NY.
1943 Birth of American composer and teacher Fred LERDAHL.
1943 Death of Priska Aich Soprano
Born 16 Nov 1887 Budapest Died 10 Mar 1943
Debut 1911
Created Ol-Ol in Ol-Ol (Tcherepnin)
Sang in premiere of Tyll (Lothar)
1947 Birth of Robert Holl Bass in Rotterdam Holland
Teachers:- Hans Hotter, Jan Veth, David Hollestelle
Pupils :- Lenneke Ruiten, Samuel Zuend, Nico van der Meel
1947 Birth of English conductor Andrew PARROTT in Walsall.
1952 FP of David Diamond's Quintet for clarinet and strings, with clarinetist David Oppenheim, Nathan Gordon and Lillian Fuchs, violins, and Aaron Twerdowsky and Bernard Greenhouse, cellos, at Town Hall in NYC.
1955 Death of Albert Huberty Bass
Born Feb 1881 Belgium Died 10 Mar 1955
Debut 1903
Teachers:- Hippolyte Belhomme, Desire Demest
Pupil :- Einar Norby
Created Fabio Conti in Chartreuse de Parme (Sauguet)
Sang in premiere of La Legende de St Christoph (D'Indy)
Le Jardin du Paris (Bruneau)
L'Arlequin (D'Olonne)
Virginie (Bruneau)
Roland et le mauvais garcon (Rabaud)
1960 Death of Josef Herou Baritone
Born 6 Oct 1884 Garfle Died 10 Mar 1960
Debut as Escamillo in Carmen (Bizet) 1909
Teachers:- Oskar Lejdstrom, Quadri
Sang in premiere of Arlnot (Peterson-Berger)
Resan till America (Rosenberg)
1963 FP of H. W Henze's opera Il re cervo 'The Stag King', at the Staatstheater in Kassel. Follow up of Henze's opera König Hirsch which was FP in Berlin on 24 SEP 1956. The original completed work FP in Stuttgart 7 MAY 1985.
1964 FP of John Harbison's Sinfonia with violinist Rose Mary Harbison and the Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard, Gregory Biss conducting in Cambridge, MA.
1967 Death of Frederick Cohen Teacher of Singing
Born 1905 Bonn Died 10 Mar 1967
Pupils :- Evelyn Lear, Eileen Schauler
1974 Death of Alexei Krivchenya Bass
Born 12 Aug 1910 Odessa Died 10 Mar 1974
Teacher :- Selyavina
Created Vershinin in Armoured Train (Kabalevsky)
1977 FP of John Harbison's Diotima for orchestra. Boston Symphony, Joseph Silverstein conducting, in Boston.
1983 Death of Martin Lawrence Bass
Born 26 Sep 1909 London Died 10 Mar 1983
Debut 1944
Teachers:- Mark Raphael, Spencer Clay, Alberto Erede
Created Don Jerome in Duenna (Gerhard)
Sang in premiere of Travallion (Philips)
1991 Death of American composer Elie Siegmeister at age 82, in Manhasset, NY. b-NYC, 15 JAN 1909. Bio Notes
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