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- 1687 Death of composer Jean Baptiste Lully in Paris at age 54 of blood
poisoning having struck himself on the foot pounding out the beat while
conducting. He gallicised his name from Giovanni Battista Lulli when
he became a French citizen.
- 1839 FP of Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C, The Great,
at Leipzig with Mendelssohn conducting.
- 1842 Birth of Carl ROSA, founded Rosa Opera Company. Carl August Nicolas ROSA (violinist/opera/company) (1842-1889) Ger.
b. Hamburg, Mar. 22, 1842; d. Paris, Apr. 30, 1889. The company was founded to perform opera in
English. The company opened in Manchester: Vincent's Maritana (1873).
- 1852 Birth of Czech violinist and teacher Ottokar SEVEIK aka Ottokar SEVCIK. d- Pisek, 18 JAN 1934.
- 1868 Birth of Scottish composer and conductor Hamish McCUNN in
Greenock. d-London, 2 AUG 1916. Wrote The Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
- 1874 Birth of German bass-baritone Peter LORDMANN in Köln. d-Regensburgdied, 27 JAN 1955.
- 1878 Birth of English soprano Ruth VINCENT in Yamouth. d-8 JUL 1955.
- 1886 Birth of Austrian bass Emanuel LIST, aka Flessing, in Vienna. d-Vienna, 27 JUN 1967. MET: Début: Dec.
27, 1933 [Hermann] Tannhäuser, 16 seasons (1933-48, 49-50) 449 Perf.,
17 roles., 16 works.
- 1887 Birth of Italian baritone Giacomo RIMINI in Verona. d-Chicago, 6 MAR 1952. m-soprano Rosa Raisa (1893-1963)
Pol / U.S.
- 1888 Birth of Austrian-American bass Emanuel LIST. d-Vienna, 21 JUN 1967.
- 1893 Birth of American soprano Edith MASON in St. Louis. d-San Diego, 26 NOV 1973. MET: Début: Nov. 21, 1915 [Sophie] Der
Rosenkavalier, 4 seasons (1915-17, 34-36) 93 Perf., 17 roles.
Concerts: 11/21/15, 12/17/16, 12/31/16, 2/9/36.
- 1908 FP of Albert Roussel's First Symphony, Poem of the
Forest in Brussels.
- 1911 Herman Jadlowker became the first opera singer
to perform two major roles in the same day at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
- 1912 Birth of German mezzo-soprano, later, soprano Marta MODL in Nuremberg. d-Stuttgart, 16 DEC 2001: MET: Début: Jan. 30, 1957 [Brünhilde]
Siegfried, 3 seasons (1956-58, 59-60) 12 perf., 5 works.
- 1920 Birth of English pianist, teacher and competition administrator Fanny WATERMAN.
- 1925 Birth of English composer and music humorist Gerard HOFFNUNG in Berlin. d-London, 1959. Hoffnung Festival.
- 1930 Birth of American Broadway composer Stephen SONDHEIM. Studied
with neighbor, Oscar Hammerstein II.
- 1943 Birth of American composer and teacher Joseph SCHWANTNER in Chicago.
- 1944 Distruction of The GREAT OPERA HOUSE FRANKFURT.
The Frankfurt Opera House went down in a golden-red sea
of flame when the city was destroyed by air raids.
- 1945 Birth of English baritone Alan OPIE in Redruth, Cornwall. MET: Début:
Dec. 12, 1994 [Balstrode] Peter Grimes, 3 seasons (1994-95, 96-98) 19
perf., 2 works.
- 1946 Birth of Israeli-Canadian violist Rivka GOLANI.
- 1948 Birth of English Musical composer Lord Andrew LLOYD WEBBER
son of London College of Music pres. William Southcombe Lloyd Webber and
brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.
- 1948 Birth of American tenor Vittorio GIAMMARRUSCO in Chicago. d-Vienna, 27 MAY 2002.
- 1948 The commercially sponsored classical music radio program Voice of
Firestone begins broadcasting on FM radio as well as AM.
- 1950 Birth of English tenor Edmund BARHAM in London.
- 1950 Birth of American soprano Mary Jane JOHNSON in Pampa, TX. MET: Début:
Apr. 6, 1992 [Minnie] La Fanciulla del West, 2 seasons (1991-92,
95-96) 2 perf. 2 works.
- 1963 FP of William Kraft's Concerto Grosso in San Diego, CA.
- 1967 Death of Italian baritone Luigi PIAZZA. b-Bologna, 1884.
- 1970 Death of Czech conductor Herbert Weiskopf (con/opera)
(1903-1970) at the Portland Opera After conducting a performance of Lucia di
Lammermoor, he was walking to his dressing room and crumpled to the
stage, struck down by a massive heart attack. He never regained
consciousness. Weiskopf was one of the countless musicians who fled
to the U.S. during the Hitler era. Portland Opera (1966-1970).
- 1973 FP of Alberto Ginastera's Piano Concerto No. 2. Hilde Somer soloist, in Indianapolis.
- 1978 DÉBUT MET of American baritone Pablo Elvira, (1937-2000) in Verdi's Rigoletto as Rigoletto.
- 1979 FP of ARGENTO's "Miss Havisham's Fire" in New York. rev. "Miss
Havisham's Wedding Night" (1981).
- 1984 FP of John Harbison's Symphony No. 1. Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa conducting.
- 1985 FP of John Harbison's Twilight Music. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with David Jolley, horn; James Buswell, violin; and Richard Goode, piano at Alice Tully Hall.
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