Birthdays & Events for January 29th

A few of the notable birthdays for today include Frederick Delius, Havergal Brian, Ludolf Nielsen, Luigi Nono, and Ferdinand Ries (Ries remains an underrated exceptional composer; he was not only Beethoven's pupil as a child but also a close friend and served as Beethoven's secretary for a period of time. I first heard his music on a Crystal Records disc of music for horn & piano in the late 90's and soon after bought up everything I could find on Naxos and CPO especially. If the classical era is your thing, then Ries will be your overflowing cup of tea)

1703 - Carlmann Kolb
1711 - Giuseppi Bonno
1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil
1782 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
1782 - Franciszek Ścigalski,
1784 - Ferdinand Ries

Ferdinand Ries

1801 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer
1824 - Karl von Perfall
1852 - Frederic Hymen Cowen
1862 - Frederick Delius
1864 - Adolf Philipp
1869 - Andrey Vladimirovich Scherbachov
1871 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco
1874 - Robert Lach
1876 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen
1876 - Havergal Brian
1884 - Juhan Aavic
1887 - Albert Conti
1889 - Francisco Santiago
1889 - Rudolf Mauersberger
1890 - Marguerite Canal
1893 - Edric Cundell
1893 - Martian Negrea
1898 - Fernand Quinet, Belgian cellist/composer/conductor
1900 - Marco Tajcevic
1924 - Luigi Nono
1928 - Bengt Hambraeus
1931 - Leslie Bricuse
1934 - Paul Gutama Soegijo
1936 - Malcolm Binns, concert pianist
1943 - Timothy Andrew James Souster

Events:

1728 John Gays's "Beggar's Opera" premieres in London
1781 Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres in Munich
1954 Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis" premieres in Cologne
1996 La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.