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1663 Birth of German composer, organist and teacher Friedrich Wilhelm ZACHOW in Leipzig. d-Halle, 7 AUG 1712.
1719 Birth of German-Austrian composer Leopold MOZART in Augsburg. Father
of Wolfgang. d-Salzburg, 28 MAY 1787.
1720 Publication of G. F. Handel's Suites des Pičces pour le Clavecin Vol I by John Cluer in London.
1723 FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 90 Es reisset euch ein schrecklich Ende. It is performed on the 25th Sunday following Trinity as part of Bach's first annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig, 1723-24.
1774 Birth of Italian opera composer and conductor Luigi SPONTINI, in Maiolatti.
d-Maiolatti, 24 JAN 1851.
1778 Birth of German pianist and composer Johann Nepomuk HUMMEL in
Pressburg. d-Weimar, 17 OCT 1837.
1802 FP of Ludwig Von Beethoven's String Quintet, Op. 29. At his apartment in Vienna.
1805 Birth of German composer Fanny MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL in Hamburg, sister
of Felix. d-Berlin, 14 MAY 1847.
1816 Birth of pedigog Reverend John CURWIN in Yorkshire, England. Developed a system to use solfege syllables or tonic system i.e.
'sol, fa' teaching
system based on the objective of Miss S. A. Glover.
d-Manchester, 26 MAY 1880.
1831 Death of Austrian-born composer, music publisher and piano maker Ignace Joseph Pleyel at age 74, in Paris. b-Ruppertsthal, 18 JUN 1757.
1850 Birth of Achte, Emmy Charlotta (s) (1850-1924) Finn. (74) b. Olou, Nov. 14,
1850; d. Dec. 2, 1924
1857 Birth of English composer Rosalind Elliott in Cambridge. d-Kent, 5 APR 1924.
1858 Birth of Hastreiter, Hélčne (m/s) (1858-1922) U.S. (61) b. Louisville, KY, Nov.
14, 1858; d. Aug. 6, 1922.
1860 Birth of Tartakov, Joachim (b) (1860-1923) Russ. (62) b. Odessa, Nov. 14, 1860;
d. Lenningrad, Jan. 22, 1923
1867 Birth of Golden, Grace [Goldini, Mme or Mlle. (s) (1867-1903) U.S. (35) b. New
Harmony, IN, Nov. 14, 1867; d. New Harmony, Aug. 14, 1903:
(Consumption) She was buried in her Juliet costume in Maple Hill
Cemetery, New Harmony, Indiana. MET: Début as Grace Goldini: Nov. 16,
1883 [Page] Rigoletto, two days after her sixteenth birthday, 1 season
(1883-84) 4 perf., 1 work.
1887 (JC, GC=26 NOV) FP of Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 4 Mozartiana, in Moscow.
1896 Birth of Pataky, Koloman von (t) (1896-1964) Hung. (68) b. Lendva, Nov. 14,
1896; d. Hollywood, Apr. 28, 1964
1896 FP of Antonin Dvorák's symphonic poem The Water Goblin Op. 107, in London.
1900 Birth of American composer Aaron COPLAND in Brooklyn NY. d-Tarrytown, NY 2
DEC 1990.
1902 Birth of Buti, Carlo (t) (1902-1963) It. (61) b. Firenze, Nov. 14, 1902; d.
Montelupo Fiorentino, Nov. 16, 1963
1905 Birth of Swiss cellist, viol player and conductor August WENZINGER. Directed Schola Cantorum Basiliensis from 1934-1970.
1908 Opening of the newly rebuilt Brooklyn Academy of Music, now also known as BAM. Performance of Gounod's opera Faust by Metropolitan Opera conducted by Francesco Spetrino with Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar. The original Brooklyn Academy of Music was founded in 1861 and was destroyed by a fire on 10 NOV 1903.
1908 FP of Oscar Straus' operetta Der tapfere Soldat, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Arms and Man, in Vienna. Opened in New York in 1909, and in London in 1910 as The Chocolate Soldier.
1930 FP of Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4. Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The first public performance of the revised version was on 5 JAN 1957, by the USSR State Symphony conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
1934 Birth of Bernabé, Marti (t) Sp. b. Spain, Nov. 14, 1934;
1935 FP of Paul Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher Concerto on Old Folk Songs for Viola and Small Orchestra. Hindemith was soloist with Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Willem Mengelberg.
1943 Debut of conductor Leonard Bernstein conducts NY Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time for ailing conductor Bruno Walter. A sudden conducting debut at Carnegie Hall. A program of works by Robert Schumann, Miklós Rósza, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner.
1943 FP of M. Rozas' Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Son in NYC.
1944 FP of Dimitri Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2, with the composer as soloist with the Beethoven Quartet. Also FP of Piano Trio No. 2. Dimitri Tsiiganov, violin and Sergei Shirinsky, cello with composer at the piano, on the same program as the premiere of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2, by the Beethoven Quartet, in Leningrad.
1954 FP of Roy Harris' Symphonic Epigram Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting New York Philharmonic.
1954 Leonard Bernstein is featured on a Sunday afternoon CBS-TV program Omnibus, hosted by Alistair Cooke, featuring Bernsteins' sketches of the 1st movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
1955 Birth of Weinschenk, Hans-Jorg (t) Ger. b. Nov. 14, 1955;
1955 FP of Henry Cowell's Symphony No. 6. Houston Symphony, Leopold Stokowski conducting.
1960 Birth of Belgian composer Piet SWERTS in Tongeren.
1965 Birth of Kim, Ettore (b) b. Nov. 14, 1965
1977 Death of English composer Richard Addinsell at age 73, in London. b-Oxford, 13 JAN 1904.
1980 Leonard Bernstein conducts the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. Featuring an 80th birthday tribute of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. Copland was the narrator.
1985 FP of Aaron Copland's Proclamation for Orchestra orchestration by Philip Ramey, by New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta, in Avery Fisher Hall.
1990 Memorial concert to Leonard Bernstein, "A Concert Remembering Lennie" was presented at Carnegie Hall. Memorializing Bernstein's death in New York City on 14 OCT 1990.
1996 FP of Andrew Waggoner's Symphony No. 2, in Zlin, Czech Republic, by the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Petr Pololanik, conducting.
2001 FP of Richard Danielpour's An American Requiem. Soloists with the Pacific Symphony, Carl St. Clair conducting.
2002 FP of Variations on Thelonious Monk’s 'Round Midnight'. The variations by Roberto Andreoni, Milton Babbitt, Alberto Barbero, Carlo Boccadoro, William Bolcom, Uri Caine, Filippo Del Corno, David Crumb, George Crumb, Michael Daugherty, John Harbison, Fred Hersch, Joel Hoffman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Gerald Levinson, Matthew Quayle, Eric Reed, Frederic Rzewski, Augusta Reed Thomas, and Michael Torke. Performed by Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli at Columbia University’s Miller Theater in NYC.
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