1575 English music rights granted for publishing by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
1626 Death of Irish composer John Dowland in London. Son, 35 year old Lutenist Robert Dowland, then succeeds his father as a member of the royal musicians in London. Sr. was buried on 20 FEB 1626 and some musiclogists indicate he may have died in mid-February 1926.
1674 Birth of German composer Reinhard KEISER in Teuchern. d-Hamburg, 12 SEP 1739.
1713 FP of G. F. Handel's opera Teseo.
1725 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 111 Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit on the 3rd Sunday following Epiphany, was part of Bach's second annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1724-25.
1735 Birth of German pianist and composer Johann Gottfried ECKARD in
Augsburg. d-Paris, 24 JUL 1809.
1751 Birth of German composer Josephus Andreas FODOR in Venlo. d-St. Petersburg, 3 OCT 1828.
1751 Handel starts his final oratorio Jephtha failing eyesight delays completion until 30 AUG.
1762 Birth of Italian composer Guiseppe Antonio SILVANI.
1775 Birth of Spanish tenor and composer Manuel GARCIA. d-9 JUN 1832. Father of singers, Maria Malibran, Michelle Viardot and Manuel Garcia Jr. aka Manuel del Popolo Vicente Garcia Tenor
Born 21 Jan 1775 Seville Died 10 June 1832
Debut in Griselda (Paer) 1808
Teachers:- Giovanni Ansi, Antonio Ripa, Juan Almarcha
Pupils :- Mme Favelli, Manuel Garcia Jnr, Jean-Antoine Geraldy
Maria Malibran, Mme Barbier-Walbronne, Paolo De Roschi
Henriette Meric-Lalande, Comtesse Merlin, Adolphe Nourrit
Mme Rimbault, Mme Ruiz-Garcia, Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Created Almaviva in Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
Duke of Norfolk in Elisabetta Regina D'Inghilterra (Rossini)
Ermindo in Gelosia Corretta (Carafa)
Errico Williams in Vascello D'Occidente (Carafa)
1859 Birth of Karl Scheidemantel Baritone
Born 21 Jan 1859 Weimer Died 26 June 1923
Debut as Wolfram in Tannhauser (Wagner) 1878
Teachers:- Julius Stockhausen, Bodo Borchers
Pupils :- Rudolf Bockelmann, Helena Forti, Parry Jones, Helene Jung
Friedrich Plaschke, Fritz Soot, Mme Uhde, Georg Walter
Created Faninal in Rosenkavalier (Strauss)
Kunrad in Feuersnot (Strauss)
Sang in premiere of Alpenkonig und Menschenfeind (Blech)
Odysseus Heimkehr (Bungert)
Nausikaa (Bungert)
Muloch (Von Schillings)
1860 Birth of Werner Alberti Tenor
Born 21 Jan 1860 Gnesen Died 29 Nov 1934
Debut as Manrico in Trovatore (Verdi) 1888
Teachers:- Martin Roder, Angelo Neumann
1865 Birth of Peter Cornelius Tenor
Born 21 Jan 1865 Labjergaard Jutland Died 25 Dec 1934
Debut as Escamillo in Carmen (Bizet) 1892
Teachers:- Julius Lieban, Nyrop, Hermann Spiro
Created Jonathan in Saul Og David (Nielsen)
1870 Birth of Emilia Corsi Soprano
Born 21 Jan 1870 Lisbon Died 17 Sep 1927
Debut as Micaela in Carmen (Bizet) 1887
Teacher :- Achille Corsi (father)
Pupils :- Ettore Cesa-Bianchi, Angelo Minghetti
1874 Death of Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa
Born 7 May 1836 Edinburgh Died 21 Jan 1874
Debut as Amina in Sonnambula (Bellini) 1852
Teacher :- Elizabeth Seguin (her mother)
Pupil :- Giorgio Ronconi
Formed Carl Rosa Opera Company with husband Carl Rosa
1876 Death of Therese Grunbaum Soprano
Born 24 Aug 1791 Vienna Died 21 Jan 1876
Debut as Lilli in Donauweibchen (Kauer) 1798 (Premiere)
Teacher :- Wenzel Muller
Pupil :- Caroline Grunbaum
Created Eglantine de Puiset in Euryanthe (Weber)
1880 FP of N. Rimsky-Korsakov's opera May Night in St. Petersburg.
1881 Birth of Ghiannis Anghelopoulos Baritone
Born 21 Jan 1881 Athens Died 5 Dec 1943
Debut as Rigoletto in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1910
Teachers:- Borghi, Nina Phoka
Sang in Premiere of Percuze (Sakellaridis)
Master Builder (Kalomiris)
Mother's Ring (Kalomiris)
1884 Birth of Hermann Gallos Tenor
Born 21 Jan 1884 Vienna Died 20 Feb 1957
Teacher :- Philipp Forsten
Pupils :- Walter Berry, Hans Braun, Ferry Gruber Karl Terkal
Sang in premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss)
1891 Birth of Russian conductor, teacher and composer Nikolay Semyonovich GOLOVANOV in Moscow. d-Moscow, 28 AUG 1953.
1891 Birth of American composer Timothy Mather SPELMAN in Brooklyn, NY.
d-Florence, IT 21 AUG 1970. The Villa Razzolini of Spelman and his poet wife Leolyn Louise Everett Spelman.
1891 Death of Canadian composer Calixa Lavallée in Boston. b-Verchères, 28 DEC 1842. Composed Canadian National Anthem, O Canada.
1894 Death of Belgian composer Guillaume Lekeu in Angers. b-Heusy, 20 JAN 1870.
1896 Death of Fritz Arlberg Baritone
Born 21 Mar 1830 Leksand Sweden Died 21 Jan 1896
Debut 1854
Teacher :- Julius Gunther
1898 Birth of American composer Alan Avery CLAFLIN in Keene, NH. d-Greenwich, CT 9 JAN 1979.
1902 Birth of English tenor Webster BOOTH in Birmingham. d-Llandudno, North Wales 21 JUN 1984. He began his recording career on the Regal-Zonophone label. His wife and singing partner was Anne Ziegler.
1904 FP of Leos Janácek's opera Jenufa at the National Theater in Berno.
1920 Birth of Viorel Ban Bass
Born 21 Jan 1920 Arad Rumania
Debut as Sparafucile in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1950
Teacher :- Constanin Stroescu
Pupils :- Lucia Becar, Victoria Bezetti
1921 Birth of Hilde Rossl-Majdan Mezzo-Soprano
Born 21 Jan 1921 Vienna
Debut 1950
1922 Birth of Mario Petri Bass
Born 21 Jan 1922 Perugia Died 26 Jan 1985
Debut as Creon in Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky) 1948
Created Agamemnon in Clitennestra (Pizzetti)
1927 FP of Albert Roussel's Suite in F for Orchestra, in Boston.
1929 FP of Franz Schreker's opera Der Schatzgräber, 'The Treasure Hunter', in Frankfurt.
1941 Birth of Spanish tenor and conductor Placido DOMINGO in Madrid.
Debut as Borsa in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1959
Teachers:- Franco Iglesias, Carlo Morelli
Created Jose de Esproceda in Poeta (Torroba)
Goya in Goya (Menotti)
1947 FP of Bohuslav Martinu's Toccata e due canzona for chamber orchestra, in Basel.
1948 Death of Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in Venice, at age 82.
b-Vienna, 12 JAN 1876.
1952 Birth of Donald Dame Tenor
Born 17 June 1917 New York Died 21 Jan 1952
Teacher :- Vera Schwarz
1957 Death of Valentin Sindler Tenor
Born 30 Jan 1885 Cholina Died 21 Jan 1957
Debut as Hoffmann in Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) 6 Jan 1909
Teachers:- Adolf Robinson
Pupil :- Vladimir Jedenactik
1958 Death of Jose De Trevi Tenor
Born 31 Mar 1890 Liege Died 21 Jan 1958
Debut 1911
Sang in premiere of Maximilien (Milhaud)
Oedipe (Enescu)
La Samaritaine (D'Olenne)
1967 Birth of American composer P. Kellach WADDLE in Louisville, KY.
1968 FP of Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 6, in Stockholm.
1970 Death of Jane Bathori Mezzo-Soprano
Born 14 June 1877 Paris 21 Jan 1970
Debut 1900
Teachers:- Emile Engel, Marie-Helene Lamoureux
Sang in premiere of Germania (Franchetti)
1973 Death of William Wernigk Tenor
Born 5 Feb 1894 Chemnitz Died 21 Jan 1973
Sang in premiere of Danton's Tod (Von Einem)
1982 Death of Andre Huc-Santana Bass
Born 11 Oct 1912 Argentina Died 21 Jan 1982
Debut in Louise (Charpentier) 1939
Teachers:- Pietro Albertini, Balbis, Jean-Emile Vanni-Marcoux
Created Father in Canuts (Kosma)
1984 Death of Kari Nurmela Baritone
Born 26 May 1933 Finland Died 21 Jan 1984
Debut as Di Luna in Trovatore (Verdi) 1961
Teachers:- Arturo Merlini, Olavi Nyberg, Sergei Radamsky
1985 Death of Joel Berglund Baritone
Born 4 June 1903 Torsaker Sweden Died 21 Jan 1985
Debut as Lothario in Mignon (Thomas) 1929
Teacher :- John Forsell, Oskar Lejdstrom
Pupils :- Bernhard Sonnerstadt, Uno Stjernqvist, Edith Thallaug
Sang in premiere of Fredlos(Linberg)
Resan till Amerika (Rosenberg)
1988 FP of Christopher Rouse's Symphony No. 1. Baltimore Symphony, David Zinman conducting.
1996 Death of John Gibbs Baritone
Born 19 June 1937 London Died 21 Jan 1996
Debut as Joe Blake in the premiere of One Man Show (Maw) 1964
Teachers:- Joan Cross, Dominique Modesti, Luigi Ricci
Created Joe Blake in One Man Show (Maw)
Sang in premiere of Rising of the Moon (Maw)
Burning Fiery Furnace (Britten)
2003 FP of Lowell Liebermann's Quintet for Piano & Strings, composer at piano, with members
of the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin.
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