1726 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 49 Ich gehe und suche mit Verlangen. The 20th Sunday after Trinity, was part of Bach's third annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig, 1725-27.
1770 FP of Gluck's opera Paris and Helen, in Vienna.
1752 Composer Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes unsuccessful eye
operation at Guy's Hospital in London.
1753 Birth of German composer Friedrich Christoph GEBTEWITZ aka Gestewitz.
1770 FP of GLUCK: "Paride ed Elena" Vienna (1770).
1867 Birth of American baritone William Wade HINSHAW in Union IO. d-Washington, D.C., 27 NOV 1947. Founded Hinshaw
School of Opera in Chicago, which later incorporated into the Chicago
Cons. as president 1903-7. Founded the International Grand Opera Co. of Chicago, 1909. MET Opera 1910-13, début 16 NOV 1910 as
Biterolf min Tannhäuser.
1880 Birth of Italian composer Raffaele Casimiro CASIMIRI in Gualdo Tadino.
1881 Birth of Muro, Bernardo de (t) (1881-1955) It. (74) b. Tempio Pausanio,
Sardinia, Nov. 3, 1881; d. Rome, Oct. 27, 1955
1888 (GC, JC=22 OCT) FP of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite Scheherazade, in St. Petersburg.
1910 The inaugural performance of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. With bass, Nazzareno de Angelis, as Ramfis in Aida with Karolewicz, Eleonora de Cisneros, Anna Masetti Bassi, Mario Sammarco and Hector Dufranne.
1962 FP of Aram Khachaturian's Concerto Rhapsody in Moscow.
1974 Death of American composer Harry Partch in San Diego, age 74. b- 24 JUN 1901.
1983 Death of conductor Alfredo Antonini, at 82.
1993 Death of Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor,
at 97, in Moscow.
1995 Death of Korean composer Isang Yun in Berlin. b-Tongyong, now Chungmu, South Korea, 17 SEP 1917.
2002 Death of German composer Werner Wagner in Argentina. b-Germany, 1927. Moved to Argentina in 1937.
2002 FP of Milton Babbitt's From the Psalter. David Lang's how to pray and Shulamit Ran's Supplications by soloists, the New York Virtuoso Singers and the American Composers Orchestra, Steven Sloane conducting at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
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