1633 FP of Rossi's Erminia sul Giordano, based on the romantic epic by Tasso at Palazzo Barberini in Rome.
1669 Birth of French composer and organist Louis MARCHAND, in Lyons. d-Paris, 17 FEB 1732.
1673 Death of German composer Kaspar Forster, at age 56 in Oliva. b-Danzig, 1617.
1687 FP of Pallavicino's La Gierusalemme Liberata at the Hoftheater in Dresden.
1714 Birth of German organist and composer composer Gottfried August
HOMILIUS in Rosenthal. d-Dresden, 5 JUN 1785.
1731 FP of Handel's opera Porus, King of India which ran for sixteen performances.
1748 Birth of German composer Christian Gottfried THOMAS.
1750 Death of German composer Johann Graf, at age 65.
1762 Birth of Girolamo Crescentini Castrato
Born 2 Feb 1762 Urbino Died 24 Apr 1846
Debut as Didone Abbandonata (Sarti) 1776
Teacher :- Lorenzo Gibelli
Pupils :- Violante Camporese, Angelica Catalani, Isabella Colbran
Giuseppina Grassini, Alexis de Garaude, Louise Albert-Himm
Giuseppe Curci, Giuditta Pasta, Raffaele Mirate, Adelaide Tosi
Created Curiatius in Orazi e I Curiazi (Cimarosa)
Romeo in Giuletta e Romeo (Zingarelli)
Artaserse in Artaserse (Cherubini)
Sang in premiere of Zamori (Mayr)
Alonso e Cora (Mayr)
1770 Birth of Giuseppe Naldi Bass
Born 2 Feb 1770 Bologna Died 14 Dec 1820
Debut 1785
Created Michele in Caccia di Enrico IV (Pucitta)
1773 Birth of composer Vincenc Tomas Vaclav TUCEK.
1779 Death of German composer Georg Philipp Kress, at age 59.
1780 Birth of American composer Ananias DAVISSON in Rockingham County, VA. d-1857.
1785 Birth of Isabella Colbran Mezzo-Soprano
Born 2 Feb 1785 Madrid Died 7 Oct 1845
Debut 1806
Teachers:- Girolamo Crescentini, Gaetano Marinelli, F Pareja
Created Semiramide in Semiramide (Rossini)
Elizabeth 1 in Elisabetta Regina D'Inghilterra (Rossini)
Elena in Donna del Lago (Rossini)
Anna in Maometto II (Rossini)
Zelmira in Zelmira (Rossini)
Armida in Armida (Rossini)
Ermione in Ermione (Rossini)
Zoraide in Ricciardo e Zoraide (Rossini)
Gabriella in Gabriella di Vergy (Carafa)
Ifigenia in Ifigenia in Tauris (Carafa)
Iole in Apoteosi D'Ercole (Mercadante)
Elcia in Mose in Egitto (Rossini)
Cora in Cora (Mayr)
Zetulbe in Califfo di Bagdad (Garcia M del P)
Zaide in Volmiro e Zaide (Sampieri)
Sang in premiere of Coriolano (Niccolini)
Medea in Corinto (Mayr)
1790 Birth of Domenico Donzelli Tenor
Born 2 Feb 1790 Bergamo 31 Mar 1873
Debut in Elisa (Mayr) 1808
Teachers:- Eliodoro Bianchi, Gaetano Crivelli, Viganoni
Created Pollione in Norma (Bellini)
Don Ruiz in Maria Padilla (Donizetti)
Almuzir in Zoraide di Granato (Donizetti)
Ugo in Ugo Conte di Parigi (Donizetti)
Torvaldo in Torvaldo e Dorliska (Rossini)
Bravo in Bravo (Mercadente)
Belfiore in Viaggio a Reims (Rossini)
Willis in Vascello d'Occidente (M E Carafa)
Cajo Giulio Cesare in Cesare in Egitto (Pacini)
Carlo di Borgogna in Carlo di Borgogna (Pacini)
Camillo in Furio Camillo (Pacini)
Claudio in Elisa e Claudio (Mercadante)
Udolfo in Amici di Siracusa (Mercadante)
Erode in Erode (Mercadante)
Don Alfonso in Caritea Regina di Spagna (Mercadante)
Ruggiero in Emma D'Antiochia (Mercadante)
Leandro in Sciocca per Astuzia (Mosca)
Maometto in Maometto (P von Winter)
Jemalden in Califfo di Bagdad (Manuel Garcia Snr)
Sang in premiere of Giuramento (Mercadante)
La Vendetta (Pugni)
Donna Aurora (Morlacchi)
Clari (Halevy)
Fausto (Bertin)
1844 Birth of Dutch composer and Haarlem music school director, Leander SCHLEGEL, in Oegstgeest. d-Overveen, 1913.
1847 Birth of pianist and composer Jules Francois BLASINI, in Curacaos.
1850(?)Birth of composer Makar Grigori EKMALYAN.
1869 Birth of Jean Perier Baritone
Born 2 Feb 1869 Paris Died 3 Nov 1954
Debut as Monastatos in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1892
Teachers:- Bussine, Taskin
Pupil :- Povla Frijsch
Created Pelleas in Pelleas & Melisande (Debussy)
Ramiro in L'Heure Espagnole (Ravel)
Marouf in Marouf (Rabaud)
Ninon de L'Enclos in Cinq Mars (Gounod)
Francois in Chemineau (Leroux)
Don Procopio in Don Procopio (Bizet)
Landry in Fortunio (Messager)
Duparquet in Ciboulette (Hahn)
Florestan de Valaincourt in Veronique (Messager)
Sang in premiere of Phryne (Saint-Saens)
Fille de Tabarin (Pierne)
La Reine Fiammette (Leroux)
La Fille de Roland (Brunne)
La Sorciere (Erlanger)
1873 Birth of Austrian operetta composer Leopold FALL in Olmütz.
1875 Birth of Austrian-American violinist Fritz KREISLER in Vienna. d-NYC, 29 JAN 1962.
1883 Birth of Mexican composer Candelario Huízar in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico. d-Mexico City, 3 MAY 1970.
1887 Death of Georg Unger Tenor
Born 6 Mar 1837 Leipzig Died 2 Feb 1887
Debut 1867
Teacher :- Julius Hey
Created Siegfried in Siegfried (Wagner)
Siegfried in Gotterdammerung (Wagner)
1888 Birth of English pianist Irene SCHARRER in London. d-London, 11 JAN 1971. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and with Tobias Matthay.
1890 FP of Antonin Dvorák's Symphony No. 8, Op. 88, in Prague. Composer conducting.
1893 Birth of Jeanne Dusseau Soprano
Born 2 Feb 1893 Glasgow
Debut as Marguerite in Faust (Gounod) 11 Jun 1918
Teachers:- Giuseppe Carboni, Atherton Furlony, M M Stevenson
Created Ninetta in Love of 3 Oranges (Prokofiev)
1900 FP of Gustave Charpentiers opera Louise at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
1901 Birth of German baritone Gerhard HUSCH in Hanover. d-21 Nov 1984
Debut as Eberbach in Wildschutz (Lortzing) 22 Dec 1924
Teacher :- Hans Emge
Pupils :- Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Sigrid Bjornsson, Ben Blackwater
Derek Hammond-Stroud, Gordon Honey, Alison Pearce
Eric Vietheer, Erik Sundquist, Nigel Rogers
Sang in premiere of Andrius Wolfius (Walter F)
1902 Death of composer Emanuil Mandlov, at age 42.
1904 Birth of composer Jose Enrique PEDREIRA.
1908 Birth of Slovenian composer Pavel SIVIC in Slovenia. d-Radovljica, 1995.
1911 Traditional birthdate of Swedish tenor, Jussi BJORLING.
He was born on 5 February. However 2
February is the date he thought of as his birthday and celebrated all his
life. It is the date on his tombstone. d-1960, age 49.
1914 Birth of Donat Antonovich Donatov Tenor
Born 2 Feb 1914 Pietrovich Died 1995
Teachers:- Vladimir Chetokhine-Alvarez, Aureliano Pertile
1919 Birth of Swiss soprano Lisa DELLA CASA on Berne. Debut as Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly (Puccini) 1941
Teacher :- Margarete Haeser
Created Frauliein Burstner/ Leni/ Girl in Prozess (Von Einem)
Sang in premiere of Die Schwarze Spinne (Burkhard W)
Tic Tac (Burkhard P)
1923 Death of Robert Leonhardt Baritone
Born 1877 Linz Died 2 Feb 1923
Debut 1898
Sang in premiere of Madame Sans-Gene (Giordano)
Kuhreigen (Kienzl)
Flato Solo (D'Albert)
1926 FP of Henry Cowell's String Quartet No. 1 Quartett Pedantic at Aeolian Hall by the Ralph Henkle String Quartet in NYC.
1929 Birth of Waldemar Kmentt Tenor
Born 2 Feb 1929 Vienna
Teacher :- Adolf Vogel, Elisabeth Rado, Hans Duhan
Pupil :- Dominic Natoli
Created Florian in Werbekleid (Salmhofer)
Gabriel in La Mystere de la Nativite (Martin)
Sang in premiere of Irische Legend (Egk)
Baal (Cerha)
1930 Birth of Reiner Suss Bass
Born 2 Feb 1930 Chemnitz
Debut 1956
Teachers:- E Linden, Hans Lissmann
Created King Peter in Leonce und Leon (Dessau)
Puntila in Herr Puntil & Sein Knecht (Dessau)
Sang in premiere of Der Arme Konrad (Forest K)
Lanzelot (Dessau)
Joe Hill (Bush)
Meister Rockle (Werzlau)
1934 Birth of Maura Moreira Mezzo-Soprano
Born 2 Feb 1934 Brazil
Debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) 1959
Teacher :- Maximilian Hellmann
Sang in premiere of Die Soldaten (Zimmermann)
1934 Death of Brazilian pianist and composer Ernesto Nazareth, at age 70 in Rio de Janeiro. b-Rio de Janeiro, 20 MAR 1863.
1936 (1937?) Birth of American soprano Martina ARROYO in NYC. Debut in Assassinio Nella Cattedrale (Pizzetti) 1958
Teachers:- Marinka Gurewich, Rose Landver, Martin Rich, Josef Turneau
1941 Birth of French-American composer Serge TCHEREPNIN near Paris.
1969 Death of MET Opera tenor Giovanni Martinelli at age 83. Italian tenor Giovanni Martinelli / Repertory. b-22 OCT 1885.
1970 Death of composer Jaroslav Vogel, at age 76.
1971 Death of Franziska Martiensson-Lohmann Soprano / Teacher of Singing
Born 6 Oct 1887 Dusseldorf Died 2 Feb 1971
Teacher :- Johannes Meschaert
Pupils :- Judith Beckmann, Ingrid Bjoner, Hermin Esser, Paul Gummer
Leonore Kirchstein, Jakob Stampfli, Jutta Vulpius, Kurt Wolinski
Kurt Widmer, Hildegard Hillebrecht, Elisabeth Grummer
Hans Ludwig, Wilfriede Luttgen, Johanna Rutishauser,
Ursula Zehnder, Jakob Keller, Josef Olbertz, Jean Van Ree
August Messthaler, Dieter Slembeck, Hans Sojer, Rudo Timper
Morris Morgan
1974 Death of Belgian composer and teacher Jean Absil in Brussels at age 80.
b-Bon-Secours, 23 OCT 1893.
1976 Death of composer Maurice Jacobson, at age 80.
1977 FP of Ned Rorem's A Quaker Reader for organ, in NYC.
1979 Birth of composer Marcus HOFFMAN.
1981 Death of Xenia Belmas Soprano
Born 23 Jan 1890 Chernigov Died 2 Feb 1981
Debut as Lisa in Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky) 1910
Teachers:- Moene, Pats, Carl Schuriet
Pupils :- Rose Alpar, Gregorio Fiasconaro
1984 Death of Margherita Perras Soprano
Born 15 Jan 1908 Bitola Macedonia Died 2 Feb 1984
Debut as Norina in Don Pasquale (Donizetti) 1926
Teacher :- Oscar Daniel
Sang in premiere Christophe Colombe (Milhaud)
1985 Death of Marco Stefanoni Bass
Born 1917 Venice Died 2 Feb 1985
Debut in Madame Sans-Gene (Giordano) 1943
Sang in premiere of Assassinio nella Cattedrale (Pizzetti)
Cagliostro (Pizzetti)
Calzare D'Argento (Pizzetti)
Il Giudize Universale (Tosatti)
1986 Death of Margaret Krauss Teacher of Singing
Born 1895 Prague Died 2 Feb 1986
Pupils :- Margreta Elkins, Kiri Te Kanawa, John Serge, Martti Talvela
Lucie Manen Teacher of Singing
Born 21 Dec 1925 Died 2 Feb 1991
Pupils :- James Bowman, David Galliver, Thomas Hemsley, Anne Pashley
Peter Pears, Laura Sarti
1987 Death of English composer and conductor Spike Partick Hughes in London. b-London, 19 OCT 1908.
1988 Death of British pianist Solomon Cutner who used only his last name,
Solomon. b-1902.
1993 Death of Gino Bechi Baritone
Born 16 Oct 1913 Florence Died 2 Feb 1993
Debut as Germont in Traviata (Verdi) 1936
Teachers:- Di Giorgi, Raoul Frazzi
Pupils :- Manrico Biscotti, John Cheek, Zdislava Donat, Sona Ghazarian
Olga Lackovic, John Carter, Louis Berkman, Roberto Lovera
Nidia Palacios
Sang in premiere of Don Juan de Manara (Alfano)
Monte Ivnor (Rocca)
2000 Death of Marcel Vercammen Tenor
Born 20 July 1910 Merksem Died 2 Feb 2000
Debut 1941
Teachers:- Mina Bolotine, Clemens Glettenberg, Max Lorenz
2002 Death of Vincenzo Sardinero Baritone
Born 12 Jan 1937 Barcelona Died 2 Feb 2002
Debut as Escamillo in Carmen (Bizet) 1964
Teacher :- Vladimiro Badiali
2003 Death of American composer Lou Harrison at age 85 in Lafayette, Indiana.
b-Portland, Oregon 14 MAY 1917.
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