Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Birthdays & Events February 8th - February 10th

Feb 8th

1586 Jacob Praetorius
1708 Vaclav Jan Kopriva
1741 Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry
1764 Joseph Leopold von Eybler
1789 Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer
1810 Norbert Burgmuller
1828 Antonio Cagnoni
1888 Matthijs Vermeulen
1891 Edgar Palm, pianist/composer
1900 Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack
1904 Igor' Fyodorovich Belza
1906 Artur Balsam, pianist
1908 Grigor Eghiazaryan
1912 Simon Jurovsky
1914 Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist
1925 Alvin Brehm
1927 Zdenek Zouhar
1930 Manuel Castillo
1932 John Towner Williams, composer/conductor
1933 Elly Ameling, soprano
1940 Talib Rasul Hakim
1943 Jose de Almeida Prado

Events:

1735 First opera (ballad-opera) in North American colonies, "Flora" opens in Charleston SC
1862 Julius Benedict's opera "Lily of Killarney" premieres in London
1895 Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" premieres in St Petersburg
1946 Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 premieres in Philadelphia


Feb 9th -Most notable for today is Alban Berg!

1607 Abraham Megerle
1741 Henri-Joseph Rigel
1744 Amos Bull
1756 Karel Blazej Kopriva
1771 Daniel Belknap
1780 Walenty Karol Kratzer
1808 Francesco Gomez da Rocha
1834 Franz Xaver Witt
1867 Edward Naylor
1875 Sidney Hugo Nicholson
1879 Carl Natanael Berg
1885 Alban Berg
1903 Georg Trexler
1906 Gwen Catley, soprano
1909 Harald Genzmer (one of my favorite extremely  neglected composers, Genzmer was born in Bremen, Germany and studied with Hindemith)
1914 Ralph Herman, orchestra leader
1924 George Guest, organist
1929 James Mulcro Drew,
1929 Willem Kersters
1930 Emil Petrovics
1931 Xavier Benguerel
1942 Carole King, singer-songwriter
1942 Charlie Morrow
1942 Milos Stedron
1943 Ryland Davies, tenor

1966 Amanda Roocroft, opera singer

Events:

1893 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan


Feb 10th

1696 Johann Melchior Molter
1702 Jean-Pierre Guignon
1717 Pierre de La Garde
1735 Johann Christoph Kuhnau
1741 Franz Adam Veichtner
1750 Stanislao Mattei
1788 Johann Peter Pixis
1819 Richard Storrs Willis
1841 Walter Parratt
1866 Bror Beckman
1869 Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati
1879 Franz Carl Bornschein
1903 Matvey Isaakovich Blanter
1905 Vilko Ukmar
1908 Jean Coulthard
1921 Adrian Cruft
1923 Cesare Siepi, basso 
1927 Leontyne (Mary Violet) Price, soprano

1929 Jerry Goldsmith, pianist/film composer
1930 Peter Phillips
1931 Gerhard Rosenfeld
1931 Makoto Shinohara
1935 Salvator Pueyo
1935 Theodore Antoniou
1939 Barbara Kolb
1948 Conrad Cummings
1953 Carl Joseph Stone
1962 Cliff Burton, bass guitarist (Metallica) (d. 1986)

Events:

1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony premieres
1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 premieres
1881 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman" premieres in Paris
1882 Rimski-Korsakov's opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St. Petersburg
1934 Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount" premieres in NYC (The "Suite from Merry Mount" is a delight, but so too is the rarely heard opera itself..if anyone is interested I shall post it)
1961 Walter Piston's Symphony No. 7 premieres




4 comments:

Pieter said...

That's a beautiful painting included in this post - may I ask who the artist is?

Thanks!

Scraps said...

I will name my next computer Zdenek Zouhar.

Tzadik said...

Hi Pieter

This most charming painting is "Jeune femme avec le parapluie rouge à la mer" by the Belgian artist Alfred (Émile Léopold) Stevens, 1823-1906. He is one of my favorite artists!

TZ

Tzadik said...

Haha nice Scraps! And while he is not on these lists, I am now thinking of naming my mac Ferdinand Titz, your favorite German composer (and mine!)

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