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1722 Death of German composer Jan Adams Reinken in Hamburg. b-Wilshausen, 27 APR 1623.
1726 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 52 Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht performed on the 23rd Sunday following Trinity. Was part of Bach's third annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig, 1725-27.
1757 Birth of American composer Jacob ECKHARD. d-10 NOV 1833.
1803 Birth of German pianist Henriette VOIGHT. Friend of
Mendelssohn and Schumann, who dedicated his Piano Sonata in g-minor to her.
1817 Birth of German pianist and teacher Fritz SPINDLER in Worzbach. d-Lossnitz, 26 DEC 1903.
1839 FP of Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet. Presented at The
Paris
Conservatory.
1848 Birth of German soprano and harpist Lilli LEHMANN,
popular Brunhilde and Isolde
d-1929. Photo and MET Biog. Born Wurzburg Died 17 May 1929
Debut as 1st Boy in Zauberflote (Mozart) 20 Oct 1865
Teacher :- Marie Loewe
Pupils :- Herman Brag, Lucia Chagnon, Leonora Corona
Franz Egenieff, Geraldine Farrar, Res Fischer
Erna Gerstmann, Poul Hansen, Hedwig Helbig
Kathleen Howard, Paul Kalisch, Walter Kirchoff
Emmy Kruger, Melanie Kurt, Rudolf Laubenthal
Marie Lehmann, Germaine Lubin. Lula Mysz-Gmeiner
Edith Nicholls, Sigrid Onegin, Gerhard Stehmann
Marian Telva, Viorica Ursuleac, Erika Wedekind
Matje Von Niessen-Stone, Marian Weed, Olive Fremstad
Alma Wertheim, Florence Wickham, Elsie Houston
Darrell Fancourt, Edytha Fleischer
Created Cristina in Goldene Kreuz (Brull)
Naomi in Maccabees (Rubinstein)
Viviane in Merlin (Goldmark)
Woglinde in Gotterdammerung (Wagner)
Forest Bird in Siegfried (Wagner)
1859 Debut of Adelina Patti at MET Opera. 16 years
old, in Lucia di Lammermoor in NYC.
1862 Birth of German pianist and conductor Bernhard STAVENHAGEN in Greiz. d-Geneva, 25 DEC 1914.
1868 Birth of American composer and pianist Scott JOPLIN
near Marshall, Texas. d-NYC, 1 APR 1917. He was best known for his ragtime pieces Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer. He also composed the opera Treemonisha.
1907 Death of Theodor Bertram Baritone
Born 12 Feb 1869 Stuttgart Died 24 Nov 1907
Debut as Hermit in Freischutz (Weber) 1889
Teachers:- Heinrich Bertram (father), Selma Vom Scheidt.
1910 Birth of Einer Kristiansson Tenor
Born 24 Nov 1910 Rekyavik Died 24 Apr 1966
Debut Elemer in Arabella (Strauss)
Teacher :- Waldemar Staegemann
1911 Birth of Finnish composer Erik BERGMAN in Uusikaarlepyy.
1912 Birth of New Zealand soprano Joan HAMMOND. d- 1996.
1927 Birth of American composer Emma Lou DIEMER in Kansas
City, MO.
1927 Birth of Alfredo Kraus Tenor
Born 24 Nov 1927 Las Palmas Canary Islands Died 10 Sep 1999
Debut as Duke in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1956
Teachers:- Francisco Andres, Merceds Llopart, Gali Markoff
Pupils :- Jason Howard, Manuel Beltran Gil, Gregory Kunde, Dominic Natoli
Sang in premiere of Sguardo dal Ponte (Rossellini)
1927 Birth of Horst Wilhelm Tenor
Born 24 Nov 1927 Berlin
Sang in premiere of Kommt Davon (Krenek)
Prometheus (Wagner-Regency)
1931 Death of Marcelle Demougeot Soprano
Born 18 June 1876 Dijon Died 24 Nov 1931
Debut Donna Elvira as Don Giovanni (Mozart) 1902
Teachers:- Charles Laurent, Hettich
Sang in premiere of Dejanire (Saint-Saens)
1932 FP of Hilding Rosenberg's opera Voyage to America in Stockholm.
1934 Birth of Russian composer Alfred
SCHNITTKE in Engels, Russia. d-Hamburg, Germany 3 AUG 1998.
1937 Birth of Bernard Muracciole Tenor
Born 24 Nov 1937 Bizerte Algeria
Debut as Tybald in Romeo et Juliette (Gounod)
Teachers:- Solange Delmas, Jean Giraudeau
1938 Debut at the MET Opera NYC of Jussi Bjoerling in La
Boheme.
1948 Birth of Elizabeth Ritchie Soprano
Born 24 Nov 1948 London
Debut as Diana in Fedelta Premiata (Haydn) 1979
Teachers:- May Blyth, Audrey Langford, Joy Mammen
Created Miss Wordsmith in Albert Herring (Britten)
Lucia in Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Tormentilla in Poisoned Kiss (Vaughan-Williams)
1949 FP of Carl Ruggles' Organum for large orchestra, by the New York Philharmonic, Leopold Stokowski conducting.
1956 Death of Frank Titterton Tenor
Born 31 Dec 1892 Handsworth Died 24 Nov 1956
Teachers:- William Bennett, Ernesto Beraldi, Jean De Reszke
Charles Victor, Mary Ann Wooley
Pupils :- John Fryatt, Eric Shilling
1958 Birth of Italian composer Luigi VERDI in Rome.
1960 Birth of American composer and double-bassist Edgar MEYER.
1963 Death of Vladimir Rosing Tenor
Born 23 Jan 1890 St Petersburg Died 24 Nov 1963
Debut as Lensky in Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky) 1912
Teachers:- Jean De Reszke, George Power, Marie Rosing, Giovanni Sbriglia
Joachim Tartakov
Pupils :- Helen Olheim, Jerome Hines
1963 CBS Television network presents a Memorial concert to slain president John F. Kennedy. Leonard Bernstein conducts New York Philharmonic performing Mahler's Symphony No. 2.
1966 Death of Nikolay Pechkovsky Tenor
Born 13 Jan 1896 Moscow Died 24 Nov 1966
Debut 1918
Teacher :- Donsky
1968 Death of Swiss violinist Alberto Bachmann in Neuilly-Sur-Seine. b-Geneva, 20 MAR 1875. Author of 'An Encyclopedia of the violin', [1975].
1969 Death of Howell Glynne Bass
Born 1906 Swansea Died 24 Nov 1969
Debut as Sparafucile in Rigoletto (Verdi) Sept 1931
Teachers:- Ben Davies, Reinhold von Warlich
Pupil :- Stafford Dean
Created Ford in Sir John in Love (Vaughan-Williams)
Joseph Lavatte in Olympians (Bliss)
Hon William McDougall in Louis Riel (Somers)
1971 Birth of American composer Seth BOUSTEAD in Jefferson City, MO.
1982 Death of Erzsebet Hazy Soprano
Born 1930 Bratislava Died 24 Nov 1982
Debut 1951
1984 FP of Christopher Rouse's The Surma Ritornelli for chamber ensemble. Society for New Music, Syracuse, NY.
1987 FP of Michael Torke's Adjustable Wrench chamber ensemble, at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival by the Lontano ensemble, Odaline de la Martinez conducting.
1988 Death of Irmgard Seefried Soprano
Born 9 Oct 1919 Kongetried Died 24 Nov 1988
Debut as Priestess in Aida (Verdi) 1940
Teachers:- Albert Mayer, Paola Novikova, Theodore Bernhard Rehmann
Herbert von Karajan
Pupil :- Christine Bunning
2001 Death of American composer and pianist Robert Helps in Tampa, FL. b-NJ, 23 SEP 1928.
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