Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Birthdays for January 26th

Jan 26th:

1613 Johann Jakob Wolleb
1708 William Hayes
1742 Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers
1748 Emmanuel Aloys Forster
1852 Frederick Corder
1855 Arthur Hervey
1900 Karl Ristenpart, German conductor 
1901 Ervin Major
1905 Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer
1907 Eddie Ballantine, orchestra leader
1908 Stephane Grappelli, French jazz/violinist
1910 Marijan Lipovsek
1911 Norbert Schultze
1916 Lothar Jensch
1921 Frantisek Chaun
1921 Johannes Driessler
1924 Warren Frank Benson
1935 Peter Ronnefeld
1935 Zbigniew Penherski
1943 Peter Kenton Winkler, composer
1945 Jacqueline du Pré, cellist

Events:

1790 - Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna
1833 - Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia" premieres in Milan
1905 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melissande" premieres in Vienna
1911 - Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
1922 - Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony" premieres in London
1957 - Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites" premieres at La Scala in Milan
1962 - David Diamond's Symphony No. 7 premieres in Philadelphia

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