1605 Death of Italian composer Orazio Vecchi at age 54, in Modena. b-Modena 6 DEC 1550.
1667 FP of Cesti's opera The Misfortunes of Love in Vienna.
1727 Handel becomes a naturalized British subject by order of the crown.
1736 FP of Handel's Alexander's Feast at Covent Garden in London, attendance over 1300. Ed´s note:
Included in the body of the the work - Original
version of Organ Concerto in
B-flat, Op. 4 #6 for Harp, lute and "Lyricord," and
the Organ Concerto in G
minor, Op. 4 #1.
At the first performance the Concerto Grosso, HWV
318 and the Cantata
"Cecilia, volgi unsuardo" were performance between
the two parts.
Thanks to
Howard Weiner for the update.
1743 Birth of Italian composer Luigi BOCCHERINI in Lucca. d-Madrid, 28 MAY 1805.
1754 Birth of Matteo Babbini Tenor
Born 19 Feb 1754 Bologna Died 21 Sep 1816
Debut 1773
Teacher :- Arcangelo Cortoni
Pupil :- Giovanni Tadolini
1755 Death of Giulio Maria Cavaletti Castrato
Died 1668 Rome Died 19 Feb 1755
Teachers:- Colonna, Francesco Antonio Pistocchi
Sang in premiere of Penelope la Casta (Perti)
Caduta de' Decemviri (A Scarlatti)
Tito Sempronio Gracco (A Scarlatti)
Tiberio Imperatore D'Oriente (Scarlatti)
1760 Birth of Katherina Cavalieri Soprano
Born 19 Feb 1760 Wahring Died 30 Jun 1801
Debut as Sandrina in Finta Giardinieri (Anfossi) 19 Jun 1775
Teacher :- Antonio Salieri
Created Constanze in Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
Mlle Silberklang in Schauspieldirektor (Mozart)
Sophie in Bergknappen (Umlauf)
Nannette in Rauchfangkehrer (Salieri)
Emilia in Sposo Deluso (Mozart)
Enrichetta in Sposa Malcontenti (Storace)
1857 Birth of Julius Lieban Tenor
Born 19 Feb 1857 Lundenburg Died 1 Feb 1940
Debut 1877
Teacher :- Joseph Gansbacher,
Pupils :- Peter Cornelius, Einar Forchammer, Albert Reiss
Mafalda Salvatini
Sang in premiere of Der Improvisator (D'Albert)
Der heirat wider Willen (Humperdinck)
Rattenfanger von Hameln (Nessler)
Boabdil (Moszkowski)
Genesius (Weingartner)
Don Quixote (Kienzl)
Regina (Lortzing)
Heilmer der Narr (Kienzl)
Roland von Berlin (Leoncavallo)
Mandragola (Waghalters)
1763 FP of Johann Christian Bach's opera Orione at the Kings' Theater in London. Runs for three months. He remains in London and becomes known as 'The English Bach'.
1794 FP of F. J. Haydn's Symphony No. 99. Haydn conducting at the King's Theatre in London.
1841 Birth of Swedish composer Elfrida ANDREE in Visby, Gotland. d-Gothenberg, 11 JAN 1929.
1841 Birth of Spanish composer Felipe PEDRELL in Tortosa. d- Barcelona, 19 AUG 1922.
1843 Birth of Spanish-Italian opera soprano Adelina PATTI in Madrid d-Wales, 27 SEP 1919.
1863 Birth of Hungarian composer Tobias Emanuel MOOR in Kecskemét. d-Switzerland, 20 OCT 1931.
1877 Birth of FRench composer Louis AUBERT in Parame. d-Paris, 10 JAN 1968.
1878 Birth of Ella Tordek Soprano
Born 19 Feb 1878 Bohemia Died 8 Sep 1918
Debut as Marenka in Bartered Bride (Smetana) 1898
Teacher :- Mathilde Mallinger
Created Susanna in Susanna's Secret (Wolf-Ferrari)
Sang in premiere of Rusalka (Dvorak)
Le Donne Curiose (Wolf-Ferrari)
1880 Birth of American composer Arthur SHEPHERD in Paris, ID. Raised in Utah. d-Cleveland, 12 JAN 1958. Photo
1886 Birth of American composer George Luther FOOTE. d-1956.
1895 Birth of Ferdinand Sieber Singer / Teacher of Singing / Composer
Born 5 Dec 1822 Vienna Died 19 Feb 1895
Teachers:- Anton Miksch, Giorgio Ronconi, Girolamo Forini
Pupils :- George Osgood, Hermine Spies
1897 Birth of Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender Baritone
Born 19 Feb 1897 Aachen Died 13 Feb 1978
Debut as Wolfram in Tannhauser (Wagner) 1922
Teachers:- Peter Raabe, Giuseppe Borgatti, Paul Bruns, Daub
Jacques Stuckgold
Pupils :- Charlotte Berthold, Brigitte Fassbaender (daughter), Rita Streich
Hans Gunter Nocker, Christianne Zinkler Eva Maria Molnar
Erwin Wohlfart
Sang in premiere of Scherz List und Rache (Wellesz)
Das Bad auf der Tenne (Schoper)
Oedipus der Tyrann (Orff)
1903 Birth of Charles Fronval Tenor
Born 19 Feb 1903 Died 29 Dec 1982
Debut 1935
Sang in premiere Moise (Levy)
1906 Birth of American composer Louis GESENWAY in Dvinsk, Latvia. d-Philadelphia, 1976.
1906 Birth of Welsh composer Grace WILLIAMS in Barry, Glamorganshire. d- 10 FEB 1977.
1913 Birth of American oboist and composer Alvin ETLER, in Battle Creek, MI. d-Northampton, MA 14 JUN 1973. Obituary. Etler was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at Smith College where he had taught since 1949. Also taught at the University of Illinois, Cornell University and Western Reserve University. Was a member of the Indianapolis Symphony. Composed Concerto for Wind Quintet and String Orchestra, two Wind Quintets, and the Introduction and Allegro for oboe and piano.
1913 Birth of Max Worthley Tenor
Born 19 Feb 1913 Adelaide Died 19 Nov 1999
Teacher :- Mrs Kugelberg
Created Clem in Little Sweep (Britten)
Astronomer in Galileo Galilei (Hoiby)
1914 FP of Ricardo Zandonai's opera Francesca da Rimini in Turin.
1915 Birth of Helmut Fehn Bass
Born 19 Feb 1915 Buchbach Died 25 Jun 1953
Debut 1940
Teacher :- Paul Bender
Sang in premiere of Troilus und Cressida (Zillig)
Der Rauber (Klebe)
Der Ameise (Ronnefeld)
Marchen von der schonen Lilie (Klebe)
1917 Birth of English conductor and organist George GUEST. d-2002.
1923 FP of Jean Sibelius' Sixth Symphony with the composer conducting in Helsinki.<
1926 Birth of Romanian composer Gyorgy KURTAG in Lugoj.
1926 Birth of Ruzena Kohoutova Soprano
Born 19 Feb 1926 Czechoslavakia
Sang in premiere in Woman's Virtue (Smutny)
1926 FP of John Alden Carpenter's Skyscrapers, as ballet, NYC.
1927 Death of Austrian composer Robert Fuchs in Vienna. b-Frauenthal, 15 FEB 1847.
1929 FP of Bela Bartók'a String Quartet No. 3, by the Waldbauer Quartet in London.
1932 FP of Copland's Symphonic Ode (1931). Boston Sym under
Koussevitsky for the orchestra's 50th anniversary.
1939 Birth of Russian tenor Vladimir ATLANTOV, in Leningrad. Debut 1963
Teachers:- Barona Barra, N Bolotina, P G Tichonov
1941 Birth of Ian Comboy Bass
Born 19 Feb 1941 Cheshire
Debut 2nd Priest in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1968
Teachers:- Albert Haskayne, Ellis Keeler, Otakar Kraus, Wolfgang Steinbruck
Eric Werba
Created Hakon in Martyrdom of St Magnus (Maxwell Davies)
Morton in Mary Queen of Scots (Musgrave)
Zeus in Europa und der Stier (Jorns)
Captain in Tornrak (Metcalf)
1941 Death of Irish composer and arranger Sir Hamilton Harty at age 61, in Brighton. b-Hillsborough, 4 DEC 1879.
1941 FP of Morton Gould's Latin American Symphonette in Brooklyn, NY.
1949 FP of Douglas Moore's opera The Emperor's New Clothes in NYC.
1949 FP of Irving Fine's Partita for winds, by the New Art Wind Quintet in NYC.
1950 Death of Edyth Walker Mezzo-Soprano
Born 27 Mar 1867 Hopewell N Y Died 19 Feb 1950
Debut as Fides in Prophete (Meyerbeer) 1894
Teachers:- Francesco Lamperti, Aglaia von Orgeni, Von Schreiner,
Marianne Brandt, Eichenberger
Pupils :- Irene Dalis, Blanche Thebom, Helen Vanni
1959 Death of Selma Vom Scheidt Soprano
Born 26 Sep 1874 Bremen Died 19 Feb 1959
Debut as Agathe in Freischutz (Weber) 1891
Teachers:- Theodor Bertram, Heinrich Bollhoff
Sang in premiere of Durer in Venedig (Von Baussnern)
1961 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Anthem The dove descending breaks the air. Robert Craft conducting in Los Angeles.
1970 Death of Edmund Burke Bass
Born 12 Jul 1876 Toronto Died 19 Feb 1970
Debut as Cardinal in Juive (Halevy) 1905
Teachers:- Alberto Antonio Visetti, Edmond Duvernoy, Richard D Percy
Brestal
Sang in premiere of Dylan Son of the Wave (Holbrooke)
1970 Death of Pavel Ludikar Bass
Born 3 Mar 1882 Prague Died 19 Feb 1970
Debut as Sarastro in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1906
Teacher :- Jean Louis Lasalle
Pupils :- Keith Engen, Rudolf Jedlicka
Created Karl V in Karl V (Krenek)
1971 Death of D Morgan Davies Tenor
Born 1906 Died 19 Feb 1971
Created Don Marique in Don Juan de Manera (Goossens)
Old Miner in Serf (Lloyd)
1975 Death of Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola at age 71, in Florence. b-Pisino, Istria 3 FEB 1904.
1985 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' Symphony No. 3, by the BBC Philharmonic, Edward Downes conducting at Manchester's Free Trade Hall.
1990 FP of Daniel Asia's Symphony No. 1, by the Seattle Symphony, Christopher Kendall conducting.
1994 Death of Italian composer Vittorio Rieti in NYC. b-Alexandria, Egypt, 28 JAN 1898.
1996 Death of Dorothy Maynor Soprano
Born 3 Sep 1910 Norfolk Virginia Died 19 Feb 1996
Teachers:- John Alan Houghton, Wilfred Klamroth
1999 FP of John Adams' Naďve and Sentimental Music by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conducting at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA.
2003 FP of Svend Hividfelt Nielsen's Dances and Detours, Toccata for Violin and Nonet. Randers Chamber Orchestra, Slaato, cond. in Randers, Denmark.
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