Thursday, January 28, 2016

Birthdays and Events for January 28


1627 - Alfonso Marsh
1645 - Gottfried Vopelius
1691 - Johann Balthasar Konig
1693 - Gregor Joseph Werner
1722 - Johann Ernst Bach
1756 - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth
1757 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni
1832 - Franz Wullner
1841 - Viktor Ernst Nessler
1868 - Frederick Archibald Lamond
1868 - Julian Aguirre
1875 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo
1878 - Walter Kollo (Kollodziepski)
1887 - Artur Rubinstein, pianist
1887 - Lily Theresa Strickland
1891 - Karel Boleslav Jirak
1893 - Elliot Griffis
1898 - Vittorio Rieti
1900 - Michael Dewar Head
1907 - Constantin Regamey
1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter
1913 - Jan Masseus
1916 - Peter Crossley-Holland
1930 - Luis de Pablo
1935 - Leonid Grabovsky
1936 - Robert Suderburg
1944 - John Tavener
1959 - Burkhard Dallwitz

One of the greatest pianists of all time: Artur Rubinstein.

Events:

1830 Daniel Auber's opera "Fra Diavolo" premieres in Paris
1916 Enrique Granados's opera "Goyescas" premieres (NYC)
1936 Pravda (the Soviet newspaper) criticizes Shostakovitch's "Lady Macbeth" opera

To read the original 1936 Pravda article:


Not sure how much is lost in translation, but it gives one a glance of what DSCH had to deal with under the regime.

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