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1695 Death of English composer Henry PURCELL at age 36, in Westminster, London. Buried under his organ at Westminster
Abby. b-Westminster, 1659.
1710 Death of Italian composer Bernardo Pasquini in Rome. b-Massa da Valdinievole, 7 DEC 1637.
1723 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 70 Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! performed on the 26th Sunday following Trinity in first annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig, 1723-24.
1796 FP of Beethoven's Ah, Perfido, sung at premiere by it's dedicatee Mme
Dusek.
1835 Death of Francesca Festa Soprano
Born 1778 Naples Died 21 Nov 1835
Debut in 1799
Teachers:- Giuseppe Aprile, Pacchiarotti, Adelaide Borghi-Mamo
Created Palmira in Imbroglio ne Porta un Altro (Mosca)
Adele in Adele di Lusignano (Carafa)
Berenice in Berenice in Siria (Carafa)
Caterina in Falegname di Livonio (Pacini)
Medea in Medea e Giasone (Coccia)
Irene in Andronica (Mercadante)
Palmira in Maometto (Von Winter)
Sang in premiere of Turco in Italia (Rossini)
1852 Birth of Spanish guitarist and composer Francisco TARREGA, in Villarreal, Castellon. d-Barcelona, 15 DEC 1909.
1863 Death of Austrian violinist and teacher Joseph Mayseder in Vienna. b-Vienna, 26 OCT 1789.
1868 Italian composer G. Rossini buried in Paris, at Pčre Lachaise cemetery among the graves of composers Chopin, Bellini and Cherubini, with funeral music on Adolphe Sax's saxophone.
1885 Birth of Trajan Grosavescu Tenor
Born 21 Nov 1885 Lugoj Rumania Died 15 Feb 1927
Debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Puccini) 1920
Teacher :- Franz Steiner
1891 Birth of Roman Hubner Tenor
Born 21 Nov 1891 Melnik
Debut 1921
Teachers:- Emilio Piccoli, Paul Ulanowsky, Vaclav Victorin
1896 FP of Antonin Dvorák's symphonic poem The Noonday Witch Op. 108, in London.
1898 Birth of Giuseppe Lugo Tenor
Born 21 Nov 1898 Verona Died 18 Sep 1980
Debut as Cavaradossi in Tosca (Puccini) 6 Oct 1931
Teachers:- Gaudier, Raffaele Tenaglia
1901 Birth of Giacomo Vaghi Bass
Born 21 Nov 1901 Como Died 29 April 1978
Debut in Manon (Massenet)
Created Hanoch in Straniero (Pizzetti)
1901 Richard Srauss conducts FP of his opera Feuersnot, 'Fire Famine', in Dresden.
1911 Birth of Marianne Radev Mezzo-Soprano
Born 21 Nov 1911 Costanza Rumania Died 17 Sep 1973
Debut as Marina in Boris Godounov (Mussorgsky) 1938
Teachers:- Riccardo Stracciari, Ivan Stefanov
Created Concierge in Neue Mieter (Keleman)
1920 Birth of Nicola Monti Tenor
Born 21 Nov 1920 Milan Died 1 Mar 1993
Debut as Elvino in Sonnambula (Bellini) Feb 1951
1924 FP of Alfredo Casella's La Giara a choreographed comedy
after Pirandello in Paris.
1929 American debut of conductor Alexander Glazunov, leading the Detroit
Symphony in a performance of his Sixth Symphony.
1930 Death of Scottish pianist and singer Marjory Kennedy Fraser in Edinburgh. b-Perth, Scotland 1 OCT 1857.
Teachers:- David Kennedy, Mathilde Marchesi
Created Old Crone in Seal Woman (Bantock)
1931 Birth of Australian composer Malcolm WILLIAMSON in Sydney. d-Cambridge, England 3 MAR 2003.
1933 Death of Perley Dunn Aldrich Teacher of Singing
Born 1863 Blackstone Mas Died 21 Nov 1933
Teachers:- William Shakespeare, Giovanni Sbriglia, Angelo Trabadello
Pupil :- Paul Althouse
1935 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Two Piano
Concerto, by Stravinsky and his son in Paris.
1943 Death of Ivan Yershov Tenor
Born 8 Nov 1867 Rostow Died 21 Nov 1943
Debut 1894
Teachers:- Alexandra Alexandrova-Kochetov, Stanislaus Gabel, C Rossi
Palechek
Pupils :- Sofia Preobrashenskaya
Created Grisha in Invisible City of Kitesh (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Orestes in Oresteia (Taneyev)
Valery in Servilia (Rimsky-Korsakov)
1945 FP of Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36. Zorian Quartet in London.
1974 Death of Swiss composer Frank Martin, age 84, in Naarden, Holland. b-Geneva, Switzerland, 15 SEP 1890.
1974 FP of Peter Mennin's Symphony No. 8, Daniel Barenboim conducting New York Philharmonic.
1977 Death of Paul Schoeffler Baritone
Born 15 Sep 1897 Dresden Died 21 Nov 1977
Debut as Herald in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1925
Teachers:- Ernst Grenzebach, Mario Sammarco, Rudolf Schmalnauer
Waldemar Staegemann
Pupils :- Elfriede Trotschel, Hans Christian, Peter Wimberger
Created George Danton in Danton's Tod (Von Einem)
Sang in premiere of Doktor Faust (Busoni)
1984 Death of Gerhard Husch Baritone
Born 2 Feb 1901 Hanover 21 Nov 1984
Debut as Eberbach in Wildschutz (Lortzing) 22 Dec 1924
Teacher :- Hans Emge
Pupils :- Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Sigrid Bjornsson, Ben Blackwater
Derek Hammond-Stroud, Gordon Honey, Alison Pearce
Eric Vietheer, Erik Sundquist, Nigel Rogers
1984 FP of Gunther Schuller's Concerto Quarterino for flute, oboe, trumpet & orchestra, Zubin Mehta conducting New York Philharmonic.
1985 Debut of Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis with New York Philharmonic performing Haydn's Trumpet Concerto and with Philip Smith, Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets.
1986 FP of John Harbison's 1987 Pulitzer prize winning cantata The Flight into Egypt at the New England Conservatory of Music. Soprano Lorraine Hunt, baritone John Osborne, and the Camerata Singers, David Hoose conducting.
1989 FP of Michael Torke's Rust for piano and winds, by the Orkest de Volharding at the Contemporary Music Festival, in Huddersfield, England.
1995 Death of Leon Lishner Bass
Born 4 Jul 1913 New York 21 Nov 1995
Debut as Bartolo in Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) 1942
Teacher :- Albert Garcia
Created Melchior in Amahl & the Night Visitors (Menotti)
Secret Police Agent in Consul (Menotti)
Don Marco in Saint of Bleeker Street (Menotti)
Death in Labyrinth (Menotti)
1996 FP of George Perle's Transcendental Modulations Jahja Ling conducting the New York Philharmonic. A commission for their 150th anniversary.
1997 Death of English composer Robert Simpson in Tralee, Ireland. b- Leamington Spa, 2 MAR 1921.
1998 Death of Polish composer and organist Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz in Warsaw. b-Sierpc, 17 OCT 1916.
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