1741 (JC, GC=29 NOV) Handel arrives in Dublin at the invitation of the country of Ireland to attend current concert season. Presented numerous concerts in the Irish capital, including the FP of his oratorio Messiah early in 1742.
1763 Leopold Mozart and his two children, Wolfgang and Maria, arrive in Paris on their European concert tour.
1771 Death of Italian composer Giuseppe de Majo, at 73. b-Napoli, 5 DEC 1697.
1772 Birth of Prussian composer Prince Louis Ferdinand CHRISTIAN.
d-Friedrichsfelde, battle at Saalfeld, 9 AUG
1806. He wrote popular Trio in E flat for violin, cello and piano op10. Beethoven dedicated Piano Concerto # 3 to him.
1781 Birth of Italian composer Felice BLANGINI in Turin. d-Paris, 18 DEC 1841.
1786 Birth of English conductor and composer Sir Henry Rowley BISHOP in London. d-London 30 APR 1855.
Founded London Philharmonic. Music prof at Oxford and Edinburgh. In 1842 the
first composer to be knighted.
1786 (Generally accepted dob) Birth of German composer Carl Maria Von WEBER in Eutin, Holstein. d-London, 5 JUN
1826.
1808 Birth of composer Antoine-Amable-Elie ELWART.
1822 Death of English composer Anton Teyber, at 66.
1822 Death of composer George Knowil Jackson, at 65, in Boston. b-Oxford, England, baptized on 15 APR 1757.
1834 Birth of Civil War soldier and Harvard benefactor Henry Lee HIGGINSON in NYC. A banker who founded the Boston Symphony
in 1881.
1836 Birth of British playwright Sir William Schwenck GILBERT, in London. Wrote librettos for the operettas of Sir Arthur Sullivan.
d-Harrow Weald, Middlesex, England, 29 MAY 1811, of cardiac arrest attempting to save a drowning woman who survived.
1852 Death of German composer Anton Bernhard Furstenau, at 60 in Dresden. Composed popular Concerto no. 8 in D in form einer gesangsszene for Flute and orch. op. 84. b-Munich, 1792.
1859(JC, GC=30 NOV) Birth of Russian composer and pianist Sergei Mikhailovich LIAPUNOV (Lyapunov), in Yaroslavl. d-Paris, 1924.
1860 Birth of Polish statesman, first premier of Poland, pianist and composer
Ignace Jan PADEREWSKI in Kurylowka, Podolia. d-NYC,
29 JUN 1941.
1871 Birth of Spanish composer Amadeo VIVES in Barcelona-Collbató, nr Montserrat. Founded Orfeo Catala choral society
and composer of zarzuelas, Spanish comic operas.
1874 Birth of composer Riccardo MARTIN. See Caruso caracature. d-11 AUG 1952.
1875 FP of Johannes Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 3 in c, Op. 60. Hellmesberger Quartet, with Brahms at the piano in Vienna.
1897 Birth of American music critic Francis PERKINS in Boston. Followed
Lawrence Gilman at NY Herald Tribune.
1898 Birth of Japanese conductor and composer Hidemaro KONOE in Tokyo.
d-Tokyo, 2 JUN 1973.
1898 Birth of composer Oswald Erich SEHLBACH.
1899 Birth of Hungarian-born American conductor Eugene ORMANDY (BLAU) in
Budapest.
d-Philadelphia, 1985. He conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1936
until 1980.
1902 Birth of Italian composer Barbara GIURANNA in Palermo, Italy. d-Rome, 1998. Composed popular Mi madre, se mi date Giovannino for Soprano and piano
1903 Birth of American violist and composer Lillian FUCHS.
1904 Birth of Italian composer Guido SANTORSOLA.
1911 Death of German conductor Max Zenger in Munich. b-Munich, 2 FEB 1837.
1918 Death of Brazilian pianist Augusto Stresser in Curitiba. b-Curitiba, 18 JUL 1871.
1942 Birth of American pianist Jeffrey SIEGEL in Chicago.
1951 Birth of Austrian cellist and conductor Heinrich SCHIFF.
1951 Death of composer Vaclav Kalik, at 60.
1951 Death of composer William Henry Bennett Vodery, at 66.
1953 Death of American composer Ruth "Peggy" Crawford Seeger at age 52, in Chevy Chase, MD. Step-mother of the folk musician Pete Seeger. b-East Liverpool, OH 3 JUL 1901.
1953 FP of Peter Mennin's Symphony No. 6. Louisville Orchestra in Louisville, KY.
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