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1632 Birth of Italian-French composer
Jean-Baptiste LULLY in Florence Italy. d-Paris, 1687.
22 MAR 1687 following infection from self inflected wound from his 6 foot
conducting stick.
1723 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 61 Nun komm der Heiden Heiland. It was performed on the 1st Sunday in Advent as part of Bach's first annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1723-24.
1784 Baptismal of German composer and pianist Ferdinand RIES in Bonn. d-Frankfurt, 13 JAN 1838. GMN Bio.
1810 Birth of pianist and teacher Louis PLAIDY. Joined Mendelssohn at
Leipzig Conservatory. Photo.
1811 Birth of Ignazio Marini Bass
Born 28 Nov 1811 Tagliuno Died 29 April 1873
Debut 1832
Created Alcaide in Forza Del Destino (Verdi)
Talbot in Maria Stuarda (Donizetti)
Attila in Attila (Verdi)
Senechal in Gianni di Parigi (Donizetti)
Guido in Gemma di Vergy (Donizetti)
Arnoldo in Adelia (Donizetti)
Oberto in Oberto (Verdi)
Eleazaro in Ebrea (Pacini)
Marino in Giovanni II (Coccia)
Lord Arcourt in Gioventu di Enrico V (Mercadante)
Gusmano in Due Illustri Rivali (Mercadante)
1811 FP of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Johann Philip Christian Schultz conducting, Friedrich Schneider, soloist.
1829 (GC, JC=16 NOV)Birth of Russian composer and pianist Anton RUBINSTEIN in Vikhvatinets, Podolia. d-Peterhof, 20 NOV 1894, buried on his birthday, see 1894 below.
1844 Birth of Angelo Masini Tenor
Born 28 Nov 1844 Terra del Sole 28 Sep 1926
Debut as Pollione in Norma (Bellini) 1867
Teacher :- Gilda Minguzzi
Pupil :- Nadezhda van Brandt
1866 Death of Johanna Sophie Loewe Soprano
Born 24 May 1815 Oldenburg Died 28 Nov 1866
Debut in Elisabetta in Otto Mese in Due Ore (Donizetti) 1832
Teachers:- Giuseppe Ciccimarra, Francesco Lamperti
Created Rowena in Templar und die Judin (Marschner)
Elvira in Ernani (Verdi)
Odabella in Attila (Verdi)
Maria Padilla in Maria Padilla (Donizetti)
Margherita in Adolfo di Warbel (Pacini)
1868 Birth of Hungarian composer and violinist Franz DRDLA in Moravia.
1872 Birth of Suzanne Adams Soprano
Born 28 Nov 1872 Cambridge Mass Died 5 Feb 1953
Debut as Juliette in Romeo et Juliette (Gounod) 1894
Teachers:- Jacques Bouhy, Mathilde Marchesi,
Created Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (Stanford)
1880 Birth of Arthur Middleton Baritone
Born 28 Nov 1880 Logan Iowa Died 16 Feb 1929
Created Herald in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1914
Teachers:- Charles Adams, Alexander Emslie
Pupil :- Olive Townend-Middleton
1888 Birth of Russian soprano Oda SLOBODSKAYA in Petrograd Died 29 July 1970
Debut as Lisa in Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky) 1918
Teacher :- Natalia Iretskaya
Pupils :- Ann Collins, Yvonne Fuller
Created Parasha in Mavra (Stravinsky)
1893 Birth of Arthur Endreze Baritone
Born 28 Nov 1893 Chicago 15 Apr 1975
Debut as Escamillo in Carmen (Bizet) 128 Dec 1925
Teacher :- Jean De Reszke
Created Guercoeur in Guercoeur (Magnard)
Metternich in Aiglon (Honnegar / Ibert)
Comte Mosca in Chartreuse de Parme (Sauguet)
Creon in Medee (Milhaud)
1894 Funeral of Anton Rubinstein in St. Petersburg. His 65th birthday.
1895 Birth of Spanish pianist and conductor Jose ITURBI in Valencia.
d-1980.
1895 (JC, GC=10 DEC)FP of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Christmas Eve in St. Petersburg.
1896 (JC, GC=10 DEC) FP of M. Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov as orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, in St. Petersburg.
1904 Birth of Helen Jepson Soprano
Born 28 Nov 1904 Titusville Pa
Debut 1928
Teachers:- Mary Garden, Queena Mario
1907 Birth of Norman Walker Bass
Born 28 Nov 1907 Oldham Died 5 Nov 1963
Debut as Knight in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1935
Teacher :- Walter Hyde
Pupils :- Elizabeth Bainbridge, John Dobson, Anne Pashley
John Heddle Nash, Margaret Norden, Lawrence Richard
Created Tom Weller in Pickwick (Coates)
Sang in premiere of Pilgrim's Progress (Vaughan Williams)
1907 Death of Enrico Delle Sedie Baritone / Teacher of Singing
Born 17 June 1822 Leghorn Died 28 Nov 1907
Debut as Nabucco in Nabucco (Verdi) 1851
Teachers:- Domeniconi, Orazio Galassi, Persanola
Pupils :- Emma Abott, Mme Bjorksten, Alessandro Bonci, Bianca Donado
Alma Hulting, Christine Nilsson, Carlo Albani
1908 Birth of Rose Bampton Mezzo-Soprano
Born 28 Nov 1908 Cleveland Ohio
Debut as Siebel in Faust (Gounod) 1929
Teachers:- Horatio Connell, Queena Mario
Pupil :- Thomas Carey, Victoria Vergaa
1909 FP of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto, in Carnegie Hall, NYC.
The composer was soloist with Walter Damrosh conducting the NY Symphony Society Orchestra.
1932 Death of Anton Van Rooy Bass-Baritone
Born 1 Jan 1870 Rotterdam Died 29 Nov 1932
Debut as Wotan in Ring (Wagner) 1897
Teacher :- Julius Stockhausen
1957 Death of Tom Williams Baritone
Born Aug 1902 Died 28 Nov 1957
Teachers:- Maurice D'Oisley, Rosina Buckman
1961 Death of James Milligan Bass-Baritone
Born 5 Apr 1927 Halifax Nova Scotia Died 28 Nov 1961
Debut 1955
1966 Death of American bandmaster and composer Vittorio GIANNINI in NYC. b-Philadelphia, 1903.
1972 Death of British composer Havergal Brian, at age 96, in Shoreham-by-Sea. b-Dresden, Staffordshire, 29 JAN 1876.
1990 FP of Christopher Rouse's Concerto per Corde Concerto for Strings, at Avery Fisher Hall by the American Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Comet conducting in NYC.
1991 Death of Horst Taubmann Tenor
Born 14 Feb 1912 Pierna Died 28 Nov 1991
Debut as Lionel in Martha (Flotow) 1935
Created Flamand in Capriccio(Strauss)
1996 Death of Anna Pollak Mezzo-Soprano
Born 1 May 1912 Manchester Died 28 Nov 1996
Debut as Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart) 1945
Teachers:- Joan Cross, Joseph Hislop
Created Bianca in Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Mistress Ford in Sir John in Love (Vaughan-Williams)
Ruth in Ruth (Berkeley)
Mrs Strickland in Moon & Sixpence (Gardner)
Madame Pernelle in Tartuffe (Benjamin)
Lady Nelson in Nelson (Berkeley)
2001 FP of Tobias Picker's opera Thérčse Raquin. Dallas Opera.
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