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- 1723 J.S. Bach arrives in Leipzig to become cantor of St. Thomas Church.
- 1790 Birth of tenor Giuseppe Ciccimarra 1790 Altamura Died 5 Dec 1836
Pupils:- Sophie Loewe, Joseph Tichatschek
Created Aaron in Mose in Egitto (Rossini)
Iago in Otello (Rossini)
Pylades in Ermione (Rossini)
Goffredo & Carlo in Armida (Rossini)
Condulmiero in Maometto II (Rossini)
Ernesto in Ricciardo e Zoraide (Rossini)
Togorma in Berenice in Siria (Carafa)
Fausto in Last day of Pompei (Pacini)
- 1790 FP of Mozart's String Quartets in D, K. 575 and Bb, K. 589 at his home in Vienna.
- 1811 Birth of Italian soprano Giulia Grisi in Milan. Died 29 Nov 1869.
Debut as Emma in Zelmira (Rossini) 1828
Teachers:- Virginia Boccabadati, Filippo Celli, Giacomelli, Giuseppina Grassini,
Giuditta Grisi, Marliani, Giuditta Pasta, Ciro Pinsuti
Created Giulietta in Capuletti e I Montecchi (Bellini)
Adalgisa in Norma (Bellini)
Elvira in Puritani (Bellini)
Norina in Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Adelia in Ugo Conte di Parigi (Donizetti)
Amelia in Briganti (Mercadante)
Elena in Marino Faliero (Donizetti)
Evelina in Enrico di Monfort (Coccia)
Mistress Ford in Falstaff (Balfe)
Queen in Don Carlos (Costa)
Violetta Tiepole in Bravo (Marliani)
Sang in premiere of Degonda (Marliani)
Corrado D'Altamura (Ricci F)
- 1813 Birth of German composer Richard WAGNER
in Leipzig. d-Venice, 13 FEB 1883.
- 1813 FP of Rossini's opera The Italian Woman in
Algiers at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice.
- 1822 Birth of English conductor and Gresham
College professor Henry WYLDE. Founder of London
Academy of Music. Perhaps flute maker.
- 1836 FP of Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio
Paulus 'St. Paul', composer conducting, at the
Lower Rhine Music Festival in Düsseldorf.
- 1850 Birth of Austrian violinist and composer Johann SCHRAMMEL in Neulerchenfeld. d-Vienna, 17 JUN 1893.
- 1852 Birth of French violinist Emile SAURET.
m-pianist Teresa Carreno.
- 1854 (´56?)Birth of English-American organist and composer Humphrey John STEWART in London. d-San Diego, CA, 1932.
- 1865 Birth of Catalan-Argentinian conductor and
teacher Enrique
MORERA in Barcelona. d-Barcelona, 11 MAR 1942.
- 1861 Birth of tenor Desire Pauwels in Ghent. Died 25 Jan 1942.
Pupils :- Louis Morrison, Sophie Pauwels van Biene.
- 1870 Birth of French composer Jean
CRAS in Brest. d- Brest, 14 SEP 1932.
- 1872 Richard Wagner lays the cornerstone of his
Festival Theater in Bayreuth, Germany. It was his 59th
birthday.
- 1873 Birth of Estonian composer Rudolf
TOBIAS.
- 1874 FP of Verdi's Requiem, conducted by
the composer in Milan.
- 1879 Birth of American composer Eastwood LANE. d-22 JAN 1951.
CD-Music for Moderns, Vol. 1
1885 Birth of Costa Rican composer Julio FONSECA in San Jose. d-22 JUN 1950.
1891 Birth of French composer and arranger Lucien CAILLIET. d-1984.
1892 Birth of Dutch tenor Louis Van Tulder in Amsterdam. Died Oct 1969.
Debut 1915
Teacher :- Aaltje Noordewierreddingius.
1899 Birth of pianist Marcelle MEYER.CD-Rarities of Marcelle Meyer
1900 Birth of Flemish coloratura soprano Vina BOVY. Debut Met in La Traviata in 1936. A native of Ghent, aka Johanna Pauline Bovi, d-1983. Debut as Argentine in Deux Billets (Poise).
1902 Birth of Czech baritone Emanuel Kopecky in Prague.
Teachers:- Gaetano Bavagnoli, Emil Burian, Egon Fuchs, Bohumila Rosenkranzova.
1907 Birth of Corsican soprano Marta Angelici. Died 11 Sep 1973
Debut as La Plieuse in Louise (Charpentier) 1938
Teacher :- Anfred Mahy
1909 Birth of English composer Minna
KEAL. d-1999.
1911 FP of Debussy's Martyre de
Saint-Sebastien. André Caplet conducting Paris
Opera at the Théatre du Châtelet.
1916 Birth of American composer Gordon BINKERD.
1917 Birth of Austrian conductor George TINTNER in Vienna.
1921 Birth of English trumpeter Humphrey
LYTTLETON.
1924 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Piano Concerto at
Koussevitzky Concert, at the Paris Opéra conducted by
Serge Koussevitzky, composer was the pianist in Paris.
1925 Birth of British clarinetist Thea
KING.
1925 Birth of Argentinian baritone Norbeto Carmona in Mendoza Argentina.
Debut as Germont in Traviata (Verdi) 1956
Teachers:- Jerome Hines, Julio Perceval, Marcello Urizar
1925 Birth of American tenor James KING in Dodge
City, KS. Debut as Don Jose in Carmen (Bizet) 1961
Teachers:- Oren Brown, Ralph Errolle, Williams Hughes, Max Lorenz, Martial Singher.
1926 Birth of bass Forbes ROBINSON.
1931 FP of William Grant Still's ballet Sahdji. Eastman Ballet and Rochester Civic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conducting.
1933 Birth of American pianist John
BROWNING in Denver. d-26 JAN 2003 of heart failure at his home in
Wisconsin at age 69.
1934 Birth of American pianist and conductor of
the Philadelphia
Pops Orchestra, Peter NERO.CD-All the Things You Are
1935 Birth of American tenor Mallory Walker in New Orleans.
Debut as Tom in Rakes Progress (Stravinsky) 1959
Teachers:- Cornelius Reid, George Schick
Created Otone's Mother & Lord Dragon of Iwi in Joruri (Miki).
1949 Death of German composer Hans
Pfitzner in Salzburg at age 80 in Salzburg. b-Moscow, 5
MAY 1869.
1977 Death of Dutch composer Marius Monnikendam in Haarlem. b-28 MAY 1896.
1950 FP of Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs
in London.CD-Strauss: Four Last Songs / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
1982 FP of Alvin Singleton's A Yellow Rose
Petal for orchestra. Houston Symphony, C. William
Harwood conducting.
1990 FP of John Harbison's Simple Daylight
with text by Michael Fried, with soprano Dawn Upshaw
and pianist Alan Feinberg at the Herbst Theater in San
Francisco.CD-Simple Daylight, Words From Paterson
1999 FP of Bright Sheng's Flute Moon with
Aralee Dorough, flute. Houston Symphony, Christoph
Eschenbach conducting.CD-Sheng: China Dreams; Flute Moon
2003 FP of Melinda Wagner´s Piano Concerto Extremity of
Sky commissioned by the Chicago Symphony, Emanuel Ax with the Chicago Symphony under Daniel Barenboim. She won Pulitzer Prize in 1999.
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