Birthdays and Events for January 30th - February 3rd

Hello all. It's catching up time as is all too familiar around here these days..


The ((major)) birthday for the 30th is Thomas Tallis, one of the most sublime composers of all. Also notable is one of my favorite early American composers, the highly original Charles M. Loeffler.


Jan 30th:

1505 Thomas Tallis
1563 Franciscus Gomarus, (Francois Gomaer), Dutch theologist/opera singer
1647 Konrad Hoffler
1694 Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster
1697 Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer
1710 Vigilio Blasio Faitello
1724 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger
1752 Joseph Matthias Kracher
1756 Josef Preindl
1760 Franz Xaver Partsch
1789 George Augustus Kollmann
1861 Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler
1862 Walter Johannes Damrosch
1892 Charles Trowbridge Haubiel
1900 Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky
1909 Mihaly Hajou
1911 Roy Eldridge, Pitts, Pennsylvania, American jazz trumpeter (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw)
1915 Pierre Wissmer
1919 Robert Suter
1920 George Skibine, Russ/US dancer/choreographer
1921 Bernie Leighton, orchestra leader
1922 Pal Jardanyi
1926 Lizbeth Webb, soprano
1928 Mitch Leigh
1933 Richard Dufallo, clarinetist/conductor
1940 David Johnson
1944 Lynn Harrell, cellist
1945 Robert Wittinger
1947 Martin Christoph Redel

Events:

1858 Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester, England
1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh" premieres

Jan 31st:

Talk about notable.. Monteverdi and Schubert were both born on this date. Also Benjamin Frankel, a composer I admire greatly and who is featured on my blog (thus far) in a couple posts. -And so I don't get any 'hey what about..." comments...yes, todays is also Philip Glass's birthday.

1517 Gioseffo Zarlino
1573 Ambrosius Metzger
1573 Giulio Cesare Monteverdi
1614 Nicolas Saboly
1734 Julien-Amable Mathieu
1759 Francois Devienne
1784 Carl Wilhelm Henning
1797 Franz Schubert
1798 Karl Gottlieb Reissiger
1836 Henryk Szulc
1891 Max Drischner
1901 Blaz Arnic
1906 Benjamin Frankel
1913 Hector Iglesias Villoud
1915 Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeter/orchestra leader
1915 Alan Lomax, American musicologist (an American treasure!)
1917 Jose Maceda
1921 Mario Lanza, Phila, actor/singer
1935 Bojidar Dimov
1937 Philip Glass
1945 Noah Creshevsky
1947 Jim Nollman
1956 Johnny Rotten, (John Lydon), Sex Pistols

Events:

1679 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon" premieres in Paris
1904 Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth" premieres
1955 RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer
1994 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down

Feb 1st:

1603 Michael Trumper
1633 Gabriel Schutz
1669 Miguel Lopez
1673 Alessandro Marcello
1690 Francesco Maria Veracini
1789 Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard
1791 Charles J Sax, Belgian instrument builder
1801 Adolf Fredrik Lindblad
1821 Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg
1859 Victor Herbert
1875 Eddie Pola (Lullabye of Broadway..)
1877 Thomas Frederick Dunhill
1879 Sydney Baynes
1880 Antonio Guarnieri
1880 Francesco Balilla Pratella
1881 Jose Ignacio Quinton
1892 K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist
1894 James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer
1902 Carlo Borbolla
1906 Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor
1907 Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, composer/conductor
1908 Edward Staempfli
1922 Renata Tebaldi, lyric soprano
1928 Ursula Mamlok
1945 Ole Buck

Events:

1893 Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut" premieres in Turin
1896 Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme" premieres in Turin
1918 Franz Lehar's opera "Wo die Lerche singt" premieres in Budapest
1918 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC
1930 Arnold Schoenbergs opera, "Von heute auf Morgen" premieres in Frankfurt
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)

Feb 2nd:

1669 Louis Marchand
1714 Gottfried August Homilius
1748 Christian Gottfried Thomas
1773 Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek
1804 Leopold Eugen Mechura
1817 Jose Maria de la Purificacion
1840 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray
1844 Leander Schlegel
1847 Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer
1856 Makar Grigori Ekmalyan
1873 Leopold Fall, Austria, operetta composer
1875 Fritz Kreisler, violinist/composer
1883 Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin
1887 Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician
1888 Candelario Huizar
1904 Jose Enrique Pedreira
1908 Pavel Sivic
1908 Renzo Rossellini
1911 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer
1911 Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish tenor
1912 Burton Lane, Broadway composer
1919 Lisa Debeljevic-della Casa, Swiss vocalist
1925 Michel Paul Philippot
1927 Richard Vance Maxfield
1927 Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist
1929 Reiner Bredemeyer
1937 Martina Arroyo, opera soprano
1941 Serge Alexandrovich Tcherepnin
1942 Graham Nash, guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash)
1944 Andrew Davis, conductor
1944 Ursula Oppens, pianist/co-founder (Speculum Musicae-NYC)
1968 Simon Wickham-Smith

Events:

1633 M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano" premieres in Rome
1731 George Frederick Handel's opera "Poro" premieres in London
1762 Thomas Arnes's opera "Artaxerxes" premieres in London
1795 Joseph Haydn's 102nd Symphony in B premieres
1823 Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice
1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris

Feb 3rd:

Palestrina!! And the one, the only, Mendelssohn.  And the notable 20th century composer for today surely is Luigi Dallapiccola.

1525 Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
1648 Louis Bouteiller
1736 Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, organist/composer
1740 Guillaume Lasceux
1755 Florido Tomeoni
1784 John Fane graaf van Westmorland, opera composer/diplomat
1809 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1817 Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent
1842 Sidney Clopton Lanier
1868 Damaso Ledesma
1886 Erwin Kroll
1887 Carlo Jachino
1903 Priaulx Rainier
1904 Luigi Dallapiccola
1906 Ludvig Nielsen
1910 Blas Galindo Dimas
1911 Jehan (Ariste) Alain, French organist/composer
1915 Richard Bales