1542 Santino Garsi
1573 Gemignano Capilupi
1745 Joao de Sousa Carvalho
1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist (first biographer of J.S. Bach)
1761 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg
1761 Jacob Kimball
1764 Alexander Campbell
1770 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek
1772 Joseph Lipavsky
1772 Karl Jacob Wagner
1779 Joachim Nicolas Eggert
1810 Holger Simon Paulli
1814 Henryk Oskar Kolberg
1817 Niels Wilhelm Gade (Gade is considered the greatest Danish composer of his time. He was initially a violinist and also a conductor)
1819 Bernardo Calvo Puig
1833 Josef Foerster
1834 Albert Heinrich Zabel
1836 Eduard Wachmann
1842 Carl Rosa, founder (Rosa opera company)
1844 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer
1883 Jaroslav Kocian
1891 Lucien Cailliet
1894 Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach
1896 Nacio Herb Brown
1900 Evald Aav,
1903 Robert Weede, baritone
1906 Edmund von Borck
1919 Jiri Pauer
1922 Andre Asriel
1922 Felix Werder
1927 David Ahlstrom
1929 Marni Nixon, soprano (Marni Nixon has been the featured soloist on several Hovhaness discs from Crystal Records)
1934 Thomas Paul, bass
1937 Dubravko Detoni
Events:
1892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James Theatre, London
1941 Paul Creston's Symphony No. 1 premieres
Feb 23rd:
1633 Samuel Pepys, navy expert/composer
1649 John Blow (Blow happened to be the first English composer to write an opera ("Venus & Adonis")
1685 George Frideric Handel (never heard of 'em!)
1730 Christian Joseph Lidarti
1811 George Washington Hewitt
1848 Thomas Paine Westendorf
1873 Dmitri Arakishvili
1876 Wadi' Sabra
1880 Edgar Istel
1882 Ladislav Vycpalek
1886 Albert Edward Sammons,
1887 Oskar Frederik Lindberg
1900 Elinor Remick Warren
1905 Leonidas Zoras
1916 Martindale Sidwell, organist/conductor
1920 Hall Overton
1924 Lejaren Hiller
1926 Regine Crespin, vocalist
1927 Ivan Hrusovsky
1929 Richard Moryl,
1952 Brad Whitford, guitarist (Aerosmith)
1955 Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist
1962 Michael Wilton, rock guitarist (Queensrÿche)
1967 Chris Vrenna, musician, producer, sound engineer (Nine Inch Nails drummer, fd. Tweaker)
1975 Robert Lopez
Events:
1792 Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G premieres
1886 Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" symphony premieres
1 comment:
Lemberg! Was anybody among the people above born there?
There is a very nice (and short) book on Galicia by Martin Pollack that might interest you, but there seems to be no traslation of it other than into hungarian.
Greetings
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