1724 FP of Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 91 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ performed Christmas Day as part of his second annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1724-25.
1725 FP of Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 110 Unser Mund sei voll Lachens performed on Christmas Day as part of his third annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1725-27.
1728 Birth of German composer Johann Adam HILLER (HY'ler) in Wendisch-Ossig. d-Leipzig, 16 JUN 1804.
1728 FP of Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 197a Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe. Asummed to be performed on Christmas Day in Leipzig as part of Bach's fourth annual Sacred Cantata cycle with texts by Christian Friedrich Henrici, aka Picander during 1728-29 season.
1739 Birth of French composer Joseph Jun BOULOGNE, Chevalier de Saint-Georges in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. d-Paris, 9/10 JUN 1799. Known as the black Mozart.
1762 Birth of Irish singer Michael KELLY in Dublin. d-Margate, 9 OCT 1826.
Debut as Count in Buona Figliuola (Piccinni) 1779
Teachers:- Giuseppe Aprile, Finaroli, Passerini, Venanzio Ruzzini
Niccolo Peretti
Created Basilio & Don Curzio in Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Euphemio of Ephesus in Equivico (Storace)
Corrade in Una Cosa Rara (Martin y Soler)
Iarbus in Dido Queen of Carthage(Storace)
Lord William in Haunted Tower (Storace)
Telemachus in Ulysses (Smith J C)
Lord William in Haunted Tower (Storace)
Valente in Sposa Malcontenti (Storace)
1815 FP of Beethoven's cantata Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt and the Namensfeier Overture, Op. 115, conducted by Beethoven at the Redoutensaal, a benefit for the Citizens' Hospital Fund, in Vienna.
1839 Birth of Ferdinand Jager Tenor
Born 25 Dec 1839 Hanau Died 13 Jun 1902
Debut 1865
Teachers:- Thiele, Ferdinand Heyne
Pupil :- Marie Dietrich
1845 Death of German composer Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, in Berlin at age 86. The oldest surviving son of J.S. Bach.
1858 Birth of Hermann Devries Bass
Born 25 Dec 1858 New York Died 24 Aug 1949
Debut as Meru in Africaine (Meyerbeer)
Teacher :- Jean-Baptiste Faure
Pupil :- Ralph Errole
1859 Birth of American composer Charles Whitney COOMBS in Bucksport, ME. d-Orange, NJ 24 JAN 1940.
1870 FP of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Christmas morning as his gift to
his wife Cosima. Hans Richter playing trumpet and Wagner conducting the ensemble
from the top of staircase. Named for their son who also became a composer
who was six months old on that Christmas morning.
1873 Birth of Tilly Koenen Mezzo-Soprano
Born 25 Dec 1873 Java Died 4 Jan 1941
Teacher :- Cornelie Van Zanten
1874 Birth of Lina Cavalieri Soprano
Born 25 Dec 1874 Viterbo Died 8 Feb 1944
Debut as Mimi in Boheme (Puccini) 1900
Teacher :- Maddelena Mariani-Masi
Created Ensoleillad in Cherubin (Massenet)
1876 Birth of Italian baritone Giuseppe De LUCA in Rome. d-NYC, 26 AUG 1950. Debut as Valentin in Faust (Gounod) 6 Nov 1897
Teachers:- Ottavio Bartolini, Antonio Cotogni, Venaslao Persichini
Pupils :- Gianna D'Angelo, Berhard Sonnerstadt, Leonard Warren
Scipio Colombo
Created Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Michonnet in Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea)
Paquiro in Goyescas (Granados)
Schicci in Gianni Schicci (Puccini)
Gledy in Siberia (Giordano)
Sang in premiere of El Sueno d'Alma (Buchardo)
1877 Birth of Gabriela Horvatova Soprano
Born 25 Dec 1877 Varazdin Died 1967
Teacher :- Resse
Pupil :- Bozena Kozlikova
1883 Birth of Croatian-Yugoslav composer Fran LHOTKA in Wocice. d-Zagreb, 26 JAN 1962.
1900 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Gladys SWARTHOUT in Deepwater, MO. d-Florence, 7 JUL 1969. Debut as Shepherd in Tosca (Puccini) 1924
Teacher :- Leopoldo Mugnone, Dino Bigalli
Sang in premiere of Merry Mount (Hanson)
1902 FP of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Kastchei the Immortal.
Ippolitov-Ivanov conducting, in Moscow.
1914 Death of German pianist and conductor Bernard Stavenhagen in Geneva. b-Greiz, 24 NOV 1862.
1916 Birth of Artur Frinberg Tenor
Born 25 Dec 1916 Mellugin Latvia
Teacher :- R Berzin
1917 Birth of Miluse Dvorakova Soprano
Born 25 Dec 1917 Prague
Debut as Pamina in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1941
Teachers:- Apollo Granforte, Tino Pattiera
Sung in premiere of Kraluv Mincmistr (Vostrak)
1936 Death of Swiss composer Pierre Maurice in Geneva. b-Geneva, 13 NOV 1868.
1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts his first NBC concert broadcast. Music of
Vivaldi, d minor concerto; Mozart, g minor symphony and Brahms first
symphony.
1940 Death of
Carl Richter Baritone
Born 3 July 1885 Stockholm 25 Dec 1940
Debut as Amonasro in Aida (Verdi) 1911
Teachers:- Gillis Bratt, Agnes Edholm, Vittorio Vanzo
1963 Death of Josef Gostic Tenor
Born 5 Mar 1900 Stara Loka Slovenia Died 25 Dec 1963
Debut 1929
Created Midas in Liebe der Danae (Strauss)
1963 Death of Fritz Vogelstrom Tenor
Born 4 Nov 1882 Herford Westphalia Died 25 Dec 1963
Debut as Tamino in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1903
Teacher :- Dora Erl
1964 Birth of English tenor Ian BOSTRIDGE in London
Debut as Lysander in Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten) 1994
1979 Death of Mario Filippeschi Tenor
Born 7 June 1907 Pisa Died 25 Dec 1979
Debut as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) Jul 1937
Teachers:- Arturo Pessina, Vicidomini
1982 Death of Gerhard Witting Tenor
Born 23 Sep 1889 Bromberg 25 Dec 1982
Debut 1912
Created Second Beggar in Rembrandt van Rijn (Klenau)
Andres in Wozzeck (Berg)
2005 Death of Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson. b-Vastra Karup in the province of Skane (Scania) in southern Sweden, 17 MAY 1918. m-Bertil Niklasson, a veterinary student she met on a train, on September 10, 1948.
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