1729 Birth of Italian composer Guiseppe Luigi TIBALDI.
1748 Birth of composer Lewis EDISON.
1753 Birth of composer Peter FUCHS.
1756 Birth of Italian composer Vincenzo RIGHINI.
1756 Birth of Singers who were born on 22 January
Vincenzo Righini Tenor / Teacher of Singing / Composer
Born 22 Jan 1756 Bologna Died 19 Aug 1812
Debut 1775
Pupil :- Margarete Luise Schick
1766 Recovering from intestinal flu the Mozart children perform at The Hague.
1779 Birth of Italian composer Stefano PAVESI.
1781 Birth of French composer, conductor and violinist Francois-Antoine HABENECK in Mezieres. d-Paris, 8 FEB 1849.
1815 Birth of composer Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm PRAEGER.
1861 Death of Giovanni Battista Vellutti Castrato
Born 28 Jan 1781 Corridonie Ancona Died 22 Jan 1861
Debut 1801
Teacher :- Abbe Calpi, Padre Stanislao Mattei
Pupils :- Benadetta Rosamunda Pisaroni
Created Decebalo in Trajiano in Dacia (Nicolini)
Quinto Fabio in QuintoFabio Rutiliano (Nicolini)
Armando D'Orville in Crociato in Egitto (Meyerbeer)
Arsace in Aureliano in Palmira (Rossini)
Ruggiero in Sacerdotessa D'Irminsul (Pacini)
Andronico in Andronico (Mercadante)
Tebaldo in Tebaldo e Isolina (Morlacchi)
Sang in premiere of Asteria e Teseo (Guglielmi)
Piramo e Tisbe (Andreozzi)
Coriolano (Nicolini)
Arminio (Pavesi)
Angelica e Medoro (Nicolini)
Ifigenia in Aulide (Federici)
Raul di Crequi (Mayr)
Eroe di Lancastro (Nicolini)
1876 Death of English minister and hymn composer John Bacchus Dykes in Ticehurst. b-Kingston-upon-Hull, 10 MAR 1823.
1882 Birth of Argentinian composer, pianist and teacher Ernesto DRANGOSCH in Buenos Aires. d-Buenos Aires, 26 JUN 1925.
1886 Birth of American composer John Joseph BECKER in Henderson, Ky. d-1961.
1887 Birth of Fanny Anitua Mezzo-Soprano
Born 22 Jan 1887 Durango Died 4 Apr 1968
Debut as Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) 1909
Teachers:- Leonor de Samaniego, Ariste Frances Chitti
Pupils :- Marta Ornelas (Domingo), Oralia Dominguez
Created Etra in Fedra (Pizzetti)
1887 FP of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta Ruddigore at the Svoy Theatre in London.
1894 (GC) FP of A. Glazunov's Symphony No. 4, in St.Petersburg. (JC=3 FEB)
1897 Birth of composer Josef STANISLAV.
1897 Birth of American soprano Rosa PONSELLE in Meriden Connecticut died 25 May 1981
Debut as Leonora in Forza del Destino (Verdi) 15 Nov 1918
Teachers:- Romano Romani, William Thorner
Pupils :- Lilli Chookasian, Sherrill Milnes, James Morris, Richard Cassily
Beverly Sills, James Atherton, Spiro Malas, Raina Kabaivanska
Created Carmelita in Legend (Breil)
1901 Birth of German born Austrian composer Hans Erich APOSTEL in Karlsruhe. d- 30 NOV
1972.
1903 Birth of English composer Robin Humphrey MILFORD in Oxford. He was the son of Sir Humphrey Milford, a publisher, who
set up the music department of the Oxford University Press.
1911 Birth of Belgian soprano Suzanne DANCO in Brussels, Belgium.
d-Fiesole, suburban Florence, Italy 10 AUG 2000.
Debut as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart) 1941
Teachers:- Fernando Carpi, Vida Harford
Pupil :- Amanda Boyd
1914 Birth of Emmy Loose Soprano
Born 22 Jan 1914 Karbiz Czech Died 14 Oct 1987
Debut as Blondchen in Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Mozart) 1939
Sang in premiere of Besuch der Alten Dame (Von Einem)
1916 Birth of French composer Henri DUTILLEUX in Angers. 23 Jan 2004 he was present in NYC for his 88th birthday and the first U.S. performance of his violin-orchestra nocturne Sur le meme accord NY Phil, Mutter. Dutilleux (pronounced duh TEE yuh) dedicated it to violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who performed the world premiere in April 2002 with K. Masur conducting the London Philharmonic.
1920 Birth of American baritone William WARFIELD in West Helena, Arkansas. d-Chicago, 25 AUG 2002. Biography Baritone performed theater works and oratorios. He was best known for his role of Porgy in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. NY Times Obituary. Porgy & Bess: High Performance
Rudolf Jedlicka Baritone
Born 22 Jan 1920 Skalice Czech
Debut as Marcello in Boheme (Puccini) 1944
Teacher:- Fernando Carpi, Pavel Ludikar, Tino Pattiera
1923 Birth of American composer Leslie BASSETT in Hanford, CA. Resident of Ann Arbor, MI.
1923 Birth of German composer Friedrich ZEHM in Neusalz an der Oder, Silesia.
1923 Death of Joachim Tartakov Baritone
Born 26 Nov 1860 Odessa Died 22 Jan 1923
Debut 1882
Teacher :- Camille Everardi
Pupils :- Maria Kuznetsova, Vladimir Rosing
1926 Birth of Swiss flutist Aurele NICOLET in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
1927 Birth of Hans Gunter Nocker Baritone
Born 22 Jan 1927 Westfalen
Debut as Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
Teachers:- Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Hans-Hermann Nissen, Carl Momberg
Created Gloucester in Lear (Reimann)
Congo Hoango in Verlobung in San Domingo (Egk)
Hummel in Ghost Sonata (Reimann)
Sang in premiere of Aucassin und Nicolette (Bialas Gunther)
Saul (Reutter)
Verlobung in San Domingo (Egk)
Elisabeth Tudor (Fortner)
Comoedia de Christi Resurrecti (Orff)
1934 FP of first version of D. Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District at the Maliiy Opera Theater in Leningrad.
1936 FP of Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik 'Music of Mourning' for Viola and String Orchestra. BBC memorial concert broadcast for King George V of England who died on 20 JAN 1935. Sir Adrian Boult conducting and Hindemith was soloist.
1948 Death of Rudolf Jager Tenor
Born 30 Aug 1875 Dresden Died 22 Jan 1948
Debut as Steersman in Flying Dutchman (Wagner) 1898
Teacher :- Richard Muller
Created Narraboth in Salome (Strauss)
1949 Birth of American composer, conductor and teacher Dean DRUMMOND in Los Angeles, CA.
1953 Birth of South Korean conductor and pianist Myung-Whun CHUNG.
1964 Death of Philadelphia born composer Marc Blitzstein from brain injury
received in a barroom fight in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Age 58.
1970 FP of Carlisle Floyd's opera Of Mice and Men in Seattle. Perhaps the most frequently performed American opera.
1980 Death of Elvira De Hidalgo Soprano
Born 27 Dec 1888 Arragena Died 22 Jan 1980
Debut as Rosina in Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) 1908
Teachers:- Bordalba, Melchiorre Vidal
Pupils :- Maria Callas, Leyla Gencer, Arda Mandikian,
J Hill, Elvina Ramella, Zoe Vlachapoulos
1980 FP, in concert, of John Williams' Cowboys Overture by the Boston Pops, conducted by the composer, his first year with the Pops. From Williams' film score The Cowboys, in Boston.
1982 Birth of Miervaldis Jenes Tenor
Born 22 Jan 1982
Teachers:- Katia Angeloni, Bruna Egle
1982 Death of Hans Fidesser Baritone
Born 12 Mar 1899 Died 22 Jan 1982
Debut as Rigoletto in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1922
Teacher :- E Mauck
1993 Death of Patricia Brooks Soprano
Born 7 Nov 1937 New York Died 22 Jan 1993
Debut as Marianne in Rosenkalier (Strauss) 1960
Teachers:- Edward Brooks, Daniel Ferro, Margaret Harshaw, Luigi Ricci
Created Abigail Williams in Crucible (Ward)
Smeraldina in Servant of Two Masters (Giannini)
Lisavetta / Bolisov in Natalia Petrovna (Hoiby)
1997 Death of Seth McCoy Tenor
Born 17 Dec 1928 Sanford N C Died 22 Jan 1997
Debut as Tamino in Zauberflote (Mozart)
Teachers:- Antonia Lavanne, Pauline Thesmacher
1998 FP of Bright Sheng's Postcards at the University of Minnesota. Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff conducting in Minneapolis, MN.
1999 Death of Gabor Carelli Tenor
Born 20 Mar 1916 Budapest Died 22 Jan 1999
2000 Death of Carlo Cossutta Tenor
Born 8 May 1932 Trieste Died 22 Jan 2000
Debut 1958
Teachers:- Mario Melani, Manfredo Miselli, Arturo Wolken
Created Rodrigo in Don Rodrigo (Ginastera)
2003 FP of Judith Weir's The Welcome Arrival of Rain. Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conducting in Minneapolis, MN.
2004 FP of Leo Brouwer's Concerto for Two Guitars. John Christopher Williams and Costas Kotsiolis, soloists with the Camerata Orchestra in Athens, Greece.
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