Birthdays & Events for February 20th & 21st

Feb 20th:

1734 Franz Ignaz Beck
1745 Johann Peter Salomon
1752 Charles Broche
1763 Adalbert Gyrowetz
1770 Ferdinando Carulli
1791 Carl Czerny
1802 Charles-Auguste de Beriot
1803 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich
1816 Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski
1854 Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director
1874 Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
1876 Fyodor Akimenko
1887 David McKinley Williams
1889 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky
1899 Leon Woizikowski, Ballets Russes
1900 Antonio Veretti
1903 Karel Janacek
1904 Armin Loos
1907 Nadine Conner, soprano
1911 Robert Guyn McBride
1913 Jozef Kresanek
1916 Julius Juzeliunas
1920 Armin Schibler
1921 Ruth Gipps, composer/conductor
1929 Toshiro Mayuzumi
1940 Barbara Laine Ellis, singer
1940 Christoph Eschenbach, pianist/conductor
1944 Lew Soloff, jazz trumpeter
1948 Barry Wordsworth, conductor
1953 Riccardo Chailly, conductor
1953 Poison Ivy, musician (The Cramps)
1960 Kee Marcello, rocker (Europe)
1962 Joel Ellis, rocker
1963 Ian Brown, rock vocalist (Stone Roses)
1967 Kurt Cobain, rock vocalist (Nirvana) **One of the most tragic losses in rock music of all time

Events:

1724 George Frederick Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premieres in London
1816 Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!" premieres in NYC
1934 Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
1960 Jimi Hendrix plays his first gig.

Feb 21st:

1556 Sethus Calvisius
1674 Johann Augustin Kobelius
1690 Christoph Stoltzenberg
1776 Vincenzo Lavigna
1795 Francisco Manuel da Silva
1801 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda
1814 Nicolo Gabrielli
1831 Eduard Rappoldi, composer
1836 Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes
1836 Emil Hartmann
1844 Charles-Marie Widor
1861 Pierre Breville
1867 Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co.
1878 Fritz Cortolezis,
1893 Andres Segovia, classical guitarist
1898 Vassily Vainonen, ballet dancer/choreographer
1903 Eric Fogg
1904 Armand Preud'homme, organist/poet
1909 George G F van Renesse, pianist/music director
1912 Nikita Magaloff, pianist
1922 Uros Krek
1923 Zvi Zeitlin, violinist/professor (Eastman School)
1927 Pierre Mercure
1933 Nina Simone, vocalist/pianist
1949 Jerry Harrison, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads)
1958 Mary-Chapin Carpenter, vocalist

Events:

1927 Franz Lehr's opera "Der Zarewitsch" premieres
1991 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 780 performances