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- 1687 Funeral in Paris of Italian-French conductor Jean-Baptiste LULLY. He conducted
with a
6' long stick that he hit on the floor. He struck his foot and following
infection, died.
- 1703 Antonio Vivaldi, 25 years old, is ordained as a priest in Venice.
- 1729 Johann Sebastian Bach visits Coethen and performs funeral music for his ex-employer, Prince Leopold.
- 1731 FP of Bach's St. Mark Passion performed at Vespers on Good Friday, in Leipzig.
- 1743 FP of Handel's Messiah. At the Hallelujah Chorus in London. King
George II jumps to his feet establishing a tradition.
- 1750 Birth of German composer Johann Matthias SPERGER in Feldberg, Valtice/Czechia, today Austria. He was trained as bass player and worked at courts of Großwardstein and Eisenstadt. He was employed at the court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. d-13 MAY 1812.
- 1783 FP of W. A. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 13 and last version of Haffner Symphony No. 35 at the Vienna Burgtheater, composer was soloist and conductor.
- 1792 FP Haydn's Surprise Symphony #94 in G in London.
- 1826 Birth of Austrian ballet composer and violinist Aloysius Ludwig MINKUS in Vienna. d- 7 DEC 1917.
- 1828 FP of L. Von Beethoven's String Quartet in F, Op. 135, posthumously by the Schuppanzigh Quartet, in Vienna.
- 1834 Birth of German composer, pianist and organist Julius REUBKE, in Hausneindorf.
- 1835 FP of AUBER's "Le cheval de bronze" in Paris.
- 1844 Birth of French organist and composer Eugene GIGOUT. (zhee goo)
d-Paris, 9 DEC 1925.
- 1877 Birth of German baritone Ludwig HESS. d-5 FEB 1944. Opera, "Abu und Nu" (1919); "Vor Edens Pforte" and "Kranion"
(Erfurt, 1933).
- 1878 Birth of Viennese theater music composer Franz SCHREKER. d-21 MAR
1934.
- 1881 Birth of German (Dutch) pianist Egon PETRI in
Hamburg.
Collaborated with Busoni on Bach edition.
d-1962.
- 1881 Death of Russian pianist, conductor, composer and teacher
Nicolas RUBINSTEIN in Paris. b- 14 JUN 1835.
- 1886 Death of Opera composer Max Wolf. b-Moravska, FEB 1840. Operetta: "Die Pilger" (Vienna, 1872); "Die
Porträt-Dame" (Vienna, 1877); "Césarine" (Vienna, 1878).
- 1887 Birth of Lyne, Felice (s) (1887-1935) U.S. b. Slater, MO, Mar 23, 1887; d. Sep.
1, 1935: Début (1911).
- 1893 Birth of Hungarian violinist and composer Franz von VECSEY in
Budapest.
- 1895 Birth of French-born American composer, painter and mystical philosopher Dane RUDHYAR, in Paris. d-13 SEP 1985.
- Birth of Austrian-American soprano Fritzi JOKL in Vienna. d-New York, 15 OCT 1974.
- 1896 FP of Giordano's Andrea Chenier in Milan.
- 1899 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Doris DOE in Barharbor, ME. d-Chattanooga, TN, 26 DEC 1985. MET Début: Feb. 3, 1932
[Brangäne]
Tristan und Isolde, 16 seasons (1931-47) 347 perf., 34 roles, 25 works.
- 1899 FP of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast at baptist Temple in Brooklyn, NY.
- 1912 FP of R. Gliere: Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz in Moscow.
- 1917 Birth of Irish tenor Josef LOCKE in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. aka Joseph McLaughlin. d-Clane, Ireland, 15 OCT 1999. His romantic tenor
voice and colorful life inspired the 1992 film Hear My Song starring Ned Beatty as Locke. Was 82 years old when he passed away.
- 1917 Ernest Bloch conducts the BSO in FP of his Three Hebrew
Poems in Boston.
- 1917 Birth of American violinist Oscar SHUMSKY in Philadelphia. d- Rye, NY, 24 JUL 2000.
- 1920 Birth of English organist and composer Geoffrey BUSH.
- 1923 FP in concert of Manuel de Falla's opera El Retablo de maese Pedro 'Master Peter's Puppet Show' at the Teatro San Fernando, in Seville.
- 1923 FP of Respighi's opera Belfagor at Teatro alla Scalla in Milan.
- 1925 Birth of British contralto Monica SINCLAIR, in Evercreech, Somerset. m-Anthony Tunstall (six children). d-London 7 MAY 2002. Obituary. MET Début: Mar. 14, 1972 [Berkenfield] La Fille du
Régiment, 2 seasons (1971-73) 20 perf., 2 works.
- 1927 Birth of French soprano Regine CRESPIN.
- 1932 Birth of Italian soprano Ilva LIGABUE in Reggio Emilia, It. d-Palermo, 19 AUG 1998.
- 1933 Birth of English baritone Norman BAILEY IN Birmingham. MET Début: Oct.
23, 1976 [Sachs] Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 3 seasons (1976-77,
1978-80) 24 perf., 5 roles.
- 1933 Birth of Swiss baritone [René] Bernard KRUYSEN [Kruijsen] in Montreux. d-2000.
- 1934 (5?)FP of Samuel Barber's Music for a Scene from Shelly. Performed
by the
New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
- 1938 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Gwynn CORNELL in Concord, NC. d-Tenafly, NJ, 31 OCT 1984. MET Début: Dec. 30, 1978 [Klytämnestra]
Elektra, 6 seasons (1978-84) 75 perf., 18 roles, 16 works.
- 1939 Birth of Russian composer Boris TISHCHENKO.
- 1939 FP of Bela Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2. Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg conducting and Zoltán Székely was the soloist.
- 1935 FP of Samuel Barber's Music for a Scene from Shelley. New York Philharmonic;
- 1944 Birth of English composer Michael NYMAN.
- 1944 FP of Henry Cowell's Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 2 for strings. Henri Nosco and his Concert Orchestra, on WEAF radio, NYC. The first concert performance was at Town Hall, NYC, 8 OCT 1944, with Daniel Saidenburg's Little Symphony.
- 1945 FP of A. Copland's, with 9 other composers, Variations on a Theme by Eugene Goosens by the Cincinnati Symphony.
- 1946 FP of Marc Blitzstein's Airbourne Symphony, in NYC.
- 1962 FP of Irving Fine's Symphony 1962 Boston Symphony, Charles Munch conducting.
- 1969 FP of Gene Gutchë's Genghis Khan American Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting.
- 1977 DÉBUT MET of tenor John Brecknock in Mozart's Magic Flute as Tamino.
- 1999 FP of James MacMillan's Cumnock Fair for piano and strings. Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Cumnock Academy.
- 2002 Death of American Opera diva Eileen FARRELL. Was known for both the opera and pop. ~ age 82.
Ananova
Houston Chronical, obit. Born in Willimantic, Connecticut, in 1920. See:
EILEEN FARRELL Obit, AP.BOOK-I Can't Help Singing
CD-Verdi .
2005 FP of John Harbison's Darkbloom, Overture for an Imagined Opera. Boston Symphony, James Levine conducting, Boston MA.
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