Friday, February 5, 2016

Birthdays & Events for February 5th

Birthdays:

1662 Giuseppi Vignola
1711 Joseph Umstatt
1732 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner
1748 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven
1810 Ole Bull, violinist
1862 Felipe Villanueva y Gutierrez
1863 Armand Parent
1864 Carl Teike
1865 Harvey Worthington Loomis
1866 Rossetter Gleason Cole
1868 Lodewijk Mortelmans
1882 Felice Lattuada
1889 Ioan Dumitru Chirescu
1902 Bronislaw Kaper
1903 Ivan Galamian, violinist
1909 Grazyna Bacewicz
1912 Zoltan Pongracz
1918 Kara Abulfazogli Karayev
1921 John M Pritchard, conductor
1943 Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin
1951 Elizabeth Swados, composer/playwright
1960 Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor
1968 Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor

Events:

1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
1907 Arnold Schoenberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam



1 comment:

Pia said...

Magical photo!