1760 Birth of Augustin Cheron Baritone
Born 26 Feb 1760 Guyancourt Died 5 Nov 1829
Sang in premiere of Iphigenie en Tauride (Gluck)
La Caravane du Caire (Gretry)
Ossian ou les Bardes (Le Sueur)
Iphigenie en Tauride (Piccini)
Oedipe a Colone (Sacchini)
Tarare (Salieri)
1770 Birth of French Bohemian composer
Anton REICHA in Prague. d-Paris, 28 MAY 1836.
1770 Death of Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. b-Piran, Slovenia 8 APR 1692.
1822 Birth of German hornist Franz STRAUSS, father of composer
Richard, in Parkstein, suburban Bayreuth, Germany. d-31 MAY 1905.
1825 Birth of American composer Hans BALATKA. Founder of the Milwaukee Musical Society. Moved to Chicago in 1860 to create a forerunner of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. d-1899.
1828 Birth of Carlo Casaccia Baritone
Born 26 Feb 1768 Naples Died 29 Feb 1828
Debut in Finta Zingari (Guglielmi)
Pupil :- Ferdinando Casaccia (grandson)
Created Don Ramualdo in Emilia di Liverpool (Donizetti)
Pappacione in Zingara (Donizetti)
Lattanzio Latrughelli in Fortunato Ingano (Donizetti)
Timoteo in Burgomastro di Saardam (Donizetti)
Don Mercurio in Gelosia Corretta (Carafa)
Don Pasquale in Agnese(Paer)
Don Bartiletto in Li Sposi in Cimento (L Mosca)
Don Saverio in Imbroglio ne Porta un Altro (L Mosca)
Taddeo in Amore per Inganno (L Mosca)
Don Marco Patacca in Ritorno Impensato (L Mosca)
Don Tullio in Finta Viaggiatori (L Mosca)
Don Totomaglio in Sposa a Sorte (L Mosca)
Gallopino in Audacia Delusa (L Mosca)
Don Ciccio in Amori e L'Arme (G Mosca)
Bemollo in Diligenza a Toigni (G Mosca)
Don Desiderio in Disperato per Eccesso di Buon Cuore (G Mosca)
Don Ciccio in Poetessa Errante (G Mosca)
Carlo in Elena (Mayr)
Sang in premiere of Gazzetta (Rossini)
Finta Zingara (Guglielmi)
1832 Chopin makes his debut in Paris, playing his F-minor Piano
Concerto.
1861 Birth of Henry Von Dulong Tenor
Born 26 Feb 1861 Hamm in Westfalen
Teacher :- Vanoncini
Pupil :- Hermann Schey
1877 Birth of Celestina Boninsegna Soprano
Born 26 Feb 1877 Reggioi Emilia Died 14 Feb 1947
Debut as Norina in Don Pasquale (Donizetti) 1892
Teachers:- Mattioli, Virginia Boccabadati
Pupil :- Margherita Grandi
Created Rosaura in Le Maschere (Mascagni)
Jone in Jone (Petrella)
1878 Birth of Emmy Destinn Soprano
Born 26 Feb 1878 Prague Died 28 Jan 1930
Debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) 16 Jul 1898
Teacher :- Marie Lowe Destinn
Pupils :- Ema Miriovska, Jarmila Novotna
Created Minnie in Fanciulla del West (Puccini)
Hedwig of Merian in Heirat wider willen (Humperdinck)
Elsbeth in Roland von Berlin (Leoncavallo)
Sang in premiere Lange Kerl (Woikowsky-Biedaus). Emmy DESTINN Bio (Destinnova aka Kittl).
1879 Birth of English composer Frank BRIDGE, in Brighton. d-Eastbourne, 10
JAN 1941.
1882 Birth of English pianist Winifred CHRISTIE in Stirling. d- 1965.
1882 Death of Hermine Rudersdorff Soprano
Born 12 Dec 1822 Ivanowsky Ukraine Died 26 Feb 1882
Debut 1841
Teachers:- Giulio Bordogni, De Micherout
Pupils :- Anna Drasdil, Isabel Fassett, Lilian Henschel, Emma Thursby
Mary Salter
1913 Birth of Albin Fechner Baritone
Born 26 Feb 1913 Boehum Died 9 Feb 1986
Teacher :- Adamo Didur
1913 Death of German composer Felix Draeseke in Dresden. b-Coburg, 7 OCT 1835.
1914 Birth of Polish conductor Witold ROWICKI in Taganrog. d-Warsaw, 1 OCT
1989. Founded the Warsaw Philharmonic, conducted 1950-55.
1914 Death of Putnam Griswold Bass-Baritone
Born 23 Dec 1875 Minneapolis Died 26 Feb 1914
Debut as Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (Stanford) Premiere 1901
Teachers:- Jacques Bouhy, Franz Emmerich, Albert Randegger
Julius Stockhausen
Created Roman Governer in Mona (Parker)
Leonato in Much Ado about Nothing (Stanford)
Sang in premiere of Poia (Nevin)
1922? (See FEB 25) FP of Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals, in Paris. Published postumosly at his request.
1924 Birth of Swiss opera conductor Silvio VARVISO. Conductor of Royal Swedish Opera, 1965-1972. Photo.
[ED's NOTE: Grove's has him born on June 20.~Kevin Kelly] His management, Colbert Artists, indicates Varviso was born 2/26/24 in Zurich, Switzerland. See their
biography.
1924 Birth of American composer Mark BUCCI in NYC.
1927 Birth of Donald Gramm Bass-Baritone
Born 26 Feb 1927 Milwaukee Wisc Died 2 Jul 1983
Debut as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 1944
Teachers:- George Graham, Martial Singher, Ruth Streiter
Created Fish in Fisherman & His Wife (Schuller)
John in Miss Julie (Rorem)
1930 Birth of Ruth Margret Putz Soprano
Born 26 Feb 1930 Krefeld
Debut as Nuri in Tiefland (D'Albert) 1950
Teacher :- Berthold Putz
Created Circe in 17 Tage und 4 Minuten (Egk)
Sang in premiere of Orfeide (Malipiero)
Smile at Foot of the Ladder (Bibalo)
1932 Birth of Jean Allister Mezzo-Soprano
Born 26 Feb 1932 Ballymoney N Ireland
Debut 1961
Teacher :- Norman Allin
Created Maggie in Visitors (Gardner)
Arete in Castaway (Berkeley)
1933 Birth of Gunilla Eva Af Malmborg Soprano
Born 26 Feb 1933 Lulea
Debut as Marzelline in Fidelio (Beethoven)
Teacher :- Ove Meyer Leegard
Sang in premiere of Drommen om Therese (Werle)
1933 Death of Albert Alvarez Tenor
Born 16 Jan 1861 Bordeaux Died 26 Feb 1933
Debut as Faust in Faust (Gounod) 1887
Teacher :- A De Martini
Created Araquil in Navarraise (Massenet)
Nicias in Thais (Massenet)
Paris in Helene (Saint-Saens)
Leicester in Amy Robsart (De Lara)
Mirko in Montagne Noire (Holmes)
Merowig in Fredegonde (Giraud)
Jean in Helle (Duvernoy)
Guatier in Burgonde (Vidal)
Hercule in Astarte (Leroux)
Bar-Kokeba in Fils de L'Etoile (Erlanger)
Guatier in Messidor (Bruneau)
Earl of Longford in Lady of Longford (Bach)
Sang in premiere of Messaline (De Lara)
1935 FP of Georges Bizet's Symphony No. 1. Felix Weingartner conducting in Basel, Switzerland. This symphony was performed posthumously; written by Bizet at age 17 in 1855 manuscript found in Conservatory
archives, in Paris, 1933.
1936 Death of Antonio Scotti Baritone
Born 25 Jan 1866 Naples Died 26 Feb 1936
Debut as Amonasro in Aida (Verdi) 1 Nov 1899
Teachers:- Franceso Lamperti, Vincenzo Lombardi, Ester Trifani-Paganini
Created Chim-Fen in Oracolo (Leoni)
1938 Death of Emile Scaramberg Tenor
Born 1863 Besancon Died 26 Feb 1938
Debut as Richard Couer de Lion (Gretry) 1893
Teachers:- Charles Nicot, Pellin
Pupils :- Louis Guenot, Renee Camia
Sang in premiere of Filibuster (Cui)
1939 FP of A. Copland's Sextet, an arrangement of his Short Symphony, by a Juilliard graduate ensemble at Town Hall in NYC.
1943 FP of Roy Harris' Fifth Symphony dedicated to the people of the Soviet Union on 25th anniversary of
the Red Army.
1943 Birth of English bass David THOMAS (Lionel Mercer).
1944 Birth of Peter Lindroos Tenor
Born 26 Feb 1944 Pojo Finland
Debut as Rodolfo in Boheme (Puccini) 1968
Teachers:- Mario Del Monaco, Jolanda di Maria Petris, Luigi Ricci
Created Pied Piper in Rattenfanger (Cerha)
Johann von Gobyn in Thomas (Rautavaara)
King in Der Singende Baum (Bergmann E)
Duke of Albany in King Lear (Sallinen)
Sang in premiere of Thomas (Rautavaara)
Rattenfanger (Cerhas)
1946 Birth of Dimitri Kavrakos Bass
Born 26 Feb 1946 Athens
Debut as Zaccaria in Nabucco (Verdi) 1970
1946 FP of Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto. Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Volkmar Andreae, conducting. Marcel Saillet was soloist. Suggested by American soldier and oboist John de Lancie at Strauss' home in Bavaria.
1949 (46?)Birth of English soprano Emma KIRKBY.Emma Kirkby in Camberley Surrey. Debut as Mother Nature in Cupid & Death (Locke) 1983
Teacher :- Jessica Cash
1951 Death of Giannina Russ Soprano
Born 27 Mar 1873 Lodi Died 26 Feb 1951
Debut as Mimi in Boheme (Puccini) 13 Jun 1903
Teacher :- Alberto Leoni,Giacosa
Pupils :- Ruth Althen, Maria Benedetti, Gina Cigna, Margherita Grandi
Sara Menkes, Maria Nemeth, Clara Petrella, Marie Powers
Created Hellera in Hellera (Montemezzi)
1953 Death of Dutch composer Elisabeth Kuyper in Lugano, Switzerland. b-Amsterdam, 13 OCT 1877.
1953 FP of Leonard Bernstein's musical Wonderful Town at the Winter Garden Theater in NYC, after New Haven try out.
1981 Death of American conductor, composer and Eastman School of Music director, Howard Hanson, in Rochester, NY.
1981 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No. 2. Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa conducting
at Symphony Hall in Boston.
1986 Death of Georgine Von Milinkovic Mezzo-Soprano
Born 7 July 1913 Prague Died 26 Feb 1986
Debut as Erda in Rheingold (Wagner) 1935
Teacher :- Maria Kostrencic
Pupils :- Ruza Pospis Baldani
Created Countess Helfenstein in Mathis der Maler (Hindemith)
Sang in premiere of Die Liebe der Danae(Strauss)
1991 Death of Andre Turp Tenor
Born 21 Dec 1925 Montreal Died 26 Feb 1991
Debut in Gianni Schicci (Puccini) 1945
Teachers:- Luigi Marletta, Mme Vita, Frank H Rowe, Edouard J Woolley
Created Lover in Andrea del Sarto (Lesur)
2001 FP of Klass De Vries' ...sub nocte per umbras 'through the reality of spirits'. San Francisco Contemporary Players at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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