1709 Italian composer Antonio Antonio Vivaldi looses his job at the Pieta.
1711 FP of Handel's first opera Rinaldo at Queen's Theater in London. Runs for 15 performances before Handel returns to Germany.
1725 FP of G. F. Handel's opera Rodelinda in London.
1727 Handel makes application to receive British citizenship.
1730 FP of Handel's comic opera Parthenope which proves to be unpopular and runs for only seven performances.
1745 FP of J. P. Rameau's comedy-ballet La Princesse de Navarre, text by Voltaire, for the wedding of the Dauphin and Maria Teresa of Spain, at Versailles.
1766 Birth of English organist and composer Samuel WESLEY in Bristol England, son of Charles,
nephew of
John. d-London, 11 OCT 1837.
1768 Birth of Jean-Blaise Martin Baritone
Born 24 Feb 1768 Lyons Died 28 Oct 1837
Debut in Marquis de Tulipano (Paisiello) 1789
Teacher :- Dugazon
Pupil :- Gustave-Hippolyte Roger
Sang in premiere of Le Nouveau Seigneur du Village (Boieldieu)
Jeannot et Colin (Isouard)
1771 Birth of German pianist, piano craftsman, teacher and composer Johann Baptist CRAMER
in Mannheim. d-London, 16 APR 1858.
1842 Birth of Italian composer Arrigo BOITO in Paudua. d-Milan, 10 JUN 1918.
1846 Birth of Italian composer Luigi DENZA. See: Funiculi, Finicula
d-London,
26 JAN 1922.
1858 Birth of French English teacher Arnold DOLMETSCH. d- Surrey,
28 FEB
1940.
1858 Birth of Eugene Oudin Baritone
Born 24 Feb 1858 New York Died 4 Nov 1894
Debut as Montosol in Josephine vendue par ses soeur (Roger) 1886
Teacher :- C Moderati
Created De Bois Gilbert in Ivanhoe (Sullivan)
1865 Birth of blind English organist and composer William WOLSTENHOLME.
d- London, 23 JUL 1921.
1874 Birth of American ragtime composer George BOTSFORD. d-11 FEB 1949. Raised in the mid-west in Iowa and Nebraska. Moved to NYC as an adult composing popular tunful melodies such as
Black and White rag and Honeysuckle rag and others.
1876 FP of Edvard Grieg's incidental music for Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. It was part of a staged production in Christiania, Oslo, Norway.
1877 Birth of Corinne Rider-Kelsey Soprano
Born 24 Feb 1877 Le Roy N Y Died 10 Jul 1947
Debut as Micaela in Carmen (Bizet) 1908
Teachers:- Theodore Toedt, R A Torrens
1883 Birth of Joseph Mann Tenor
Born 24 Feb 1883 Lemberg Died 5 Sep 1921
Debut 1910
Teachers:- Kicki, Valeric Wysocki, Strozeckiej
Created Teufels in Das Hollisch Gold (Bittner)
1894 Birth of Ferdinand Pour Baritone
Born 24 Feb 1894 Died 19 Jan 1939
Teacher :- Egon Fuchs
Sang in premiere of Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek)
1901 Birth of Einer Beyron Tenor
Born 24 Feb 1901 Malmo Died 29 Mar 1979
Debut as Froh in Rheingold (Wagner) 1924
Teachers:- Louis Bachner, John Forsell
Sang in premiere Birgitta (Berg)
Lycksalighetens O (Rosenberg)
Engelbrekt (Berg N)
Kathrin (Korngold)
Marionetter (Rosenberg)
Roskolnikoff (Sutermeister)
1905 Birth of Dutch composer Guillaume LANDRE in The Hague. d-Amsterdam, 6 NOV 1968.
1907 Death of composer Otto Goldschmidt. b-21 AUG 1829.
1910 FP of Jules Massenet's opera Don Quichotte with Feodor Chaliapine, at City of Monte Carlo Theater Opéra, Conductor Léon Jéhin.
1916 Birth of Otto von Rohr Bass
Born 24 Feb 1916 Berlin Died 15 July 1982
Debut as Sarastro in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1938
Teachers:- Sergei Radamsky, Hermann Weissenborn
Sang in premiere of Die Schwarze Spinne (Hauer)
1924 Birth of Israeli pianist Pnina SALZMAN in Tel-Aviv.
1928 Death of Edmond Clement Tenor
Born 28 Mar 1867 Paris Died 24 Feb 1928
Debut as Vincent in Mireille (Gounod) 23 Nov 1889
Teacher :- Victor Warot
Pupil :- Edith Mason
Created Armand de Clerval in Therese (Massenet)
Sang in premiere of Phryne (Saint-Saens)
Filibuster (Cui)
Vivandiere (Godard)
Xaviere (Dubois)
Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien (Puget)
Attaque du Moulin (Bruneau)
Juif Polonais (Erlanger)
Ile de Reve (Hahn)
Helene (Saint-Saens)
La Fille de Tabarin (Pierne)
La Cabrera (Dupont)
1929 Death of French composer André Messager at age 75, in Paris. b-30 DEC 1853.
1930 Death of Giuseppina Pasqua Soprano / Mezzo-Soprano
Born 19 Mar 1855 Perugia Died 24 Feb 1930
Debut as Oscar in Ballo in Maschera (Verdi)
Teachers:- Marietta Piccolomini, Luigia Abbadini
Created Mistress Quickly in Falstaff (Verdi)
1931 Birth of Hajo Muller Bass-Baritone
Born 24 Feb 1931 Dobeln
Debut as Tommaso in Tiefland (D'Albert) 1951
Teachers:- Rudolf Dittrich, Johannes Kemter
Created Emperor in Schuhu & the Flying Princess (Zimmermann U )
Sang in premiere of Vincent (Kunada)
Thomas Chatterton (Pintscher)
Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Matthus)
1932 Birth of French composer and pianist Michel LEGRAND.
1934 Birth of Italian soprano Renata SCOTTO in Savona. Debut at
age 18 as Violetta in Traviata (Verdi) 1953
Teachers:- Ettore Campogalliani, Emilio Ghirardini, Mercedes Llopart
Arturo Merlini
Pupils :- Stefano Secco, Jeanette Nicolai, Linda Campanella
1935 FP of N. Miaskovsky's Symphony No. 14, in Moscow.
1939 FP of Roy Harris' Third Symphony, conducted by Koussevitzky. It has one of the longest unbroken lines of melody in all classical music.
1947 Birth of Henry Herford Baritone
Born 24 Feb 1947 Edinburgh
Debut as Forester in Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek) 1977
Teachers:- Frederic Cox, Patrick McGuigan
Created Boris Pasternak in Electrification of Soviet Union (Osborne)
1952 Death of Oreste Luppi Bass
Born 15 July 1869 Rome Died 24 Feb 1952
Debut 1892
Sang in premiere of Anton (Galeotti)
Maschere (Mascagni)
Oceana (Smareglia)
1955 FP of Carlisle Floyd's opera Susannah at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
1956 FP of Walter Piston's Symphony No. 5, in NYC.
1958 Birth of Christine Bunning Soprano
Born 24 Feb 1958 Luton
Debut 1985
Teachers:- Audrey Langford, David Mason, Irmgard Seefried
1965 Death of Gino Giovanelli-Gotti Tenor
Born 30 Mar 1878 Siena Died 24 Feb 1965
Debut as Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1904
Teacher :- Silvio Tanzi
1967 Death of Dorothea Manski Soprano
Born 11 Mar 1895 New York Died 24 Feb 1967
Debut 1911
Teacher :- Emmy Raabe-Burg
Pupils :- Felicia Weathers, Eldred A Thierstein
Sang in premiere of Sharazade (Sekles)
1968 Death of Erich Zimmermann Tenor
Born 29 Nov 1892 Dresden Died 24 Feb 1968
Debut 1918
Created 1st Shopper in Peer Gynt (Egk)
Jan Lievens in Rembrandt van Rijn (Van Klenau)
Sang in premiere of Schneider Wibbel (Lothar)
Schloss Durande (Schoeck)
Ein Preussisches Marchen (Blacher)
1979 FP of Alban Berg's opera Lulu in first complete staging by Friedrich Cerha, at the Paris Opéra.
1981 Death of Aldo Ferracuti Tenor
Born 1906 Fermo Died 24 Feb 1981
Debut 1935
Sang in premiere of Il Malato imaginario (Napoli)
1985 FP in USAmerica of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Requiem at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in NYC. FP 21 APR 1984, in Westminster Abbey, London with one time spouse, soprano Sarah Brightman.
1999 Death of composer Huub Kerstens. b-7 JUN 1947.
2000 FP of Joan Tower's The Last Dance Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
2002 Death of Russian-American composer and pianist Leo ORNSTEIN in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was born in December of either 1892 or 1893, making him either 108 or 109 years old. Andante, Obituary.
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