1639 Baroque composer Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) joins St. Mark's in Venice as organist. An important composer
of Italian opera in the third quarter of the 17th century.
1724 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 73 Herr, wie du willst, so schicks mit mir on the 3rd Sunday following Epiphany, was part of Bach's first annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1723-24.
1729 FP of Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 156 Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe on the 3rd Sunday following Epiphany. Was part of Bach's fourth annual Sacred Cantata cycle texts by Christian Friedrich Henrici, aka Picander, in Leipzig 1728-29.
1752 Birth of Italian composer Muzio CLEMENTI in Rome. d-Evesham, England, 10 MAR 1832.
1789 Birth of Giulio Marco Bordogni Tenor / Teacher of Singing
Born 23 Jan 1789 Gazzaniga Died 31 July 1856
Debut as Argirio in Tancredi (Rossini) 1813
Teacher :- J S Mayr
Pupils :- Jeanne Anais Castellan, Laure Cinti-Damoreau, Sofia Cruvelli
Julie Aimee Dorus-Gras, Marie Cornelie Falcon, Giovanni Mario
Heinrich Panofka, Sims Reeves, Hermine Rudersdorff, Franz Wild
Henrietta Sontag, Leon Achard, Anna La Grange, Anna Thillon
William Balfe, Johanna Wagner, Anna Zerr, Mario Zucchelli
Created Libenskof in Viaggio a Reims (Rossini)
1793 Death of Margaret Farrell Mezzo-Soprano
Born in Ireland Died 23 Jan 1793
Debut in Sot (Arne T)
Teacher :- Thomas Arne
1805 Death of Polish composer Vaclav Wenzel Pichl. b-Bechyne, Bohemia, 25 SEP 1741.
1820 Birth of Russian composer, critic and politician Alexander SEROV in St. Petersburg. d-St. Petersburg, 1 FEB 1871.
1837 (GC, JC=11 JAN) Death of Irish composer John Field at age 54, in Moscow. b-Dublin, Ireland, 26 JUL 1782.
1850 Birth of Antoinette Sterling Soprano
Born 23 Jan 1850 Sterlingville N Y Died 10 Jan 1904
Teachers:- De Abella, Manuel Garcia Jnr, Mathilde Marchesi,
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
1850 Death of Adolphe Alizard Bass-Baritone
Born 29 Dec 1814 Paris Died 23 Jan 1850
Debut as St Bris in Huguenots (Meyerbeer) 1837
Teacher :- Davide Banderali
Created Roger in Jerusalem (Verdi)
Crier in Huguenots (Meyerbeer)
1858 Death of Luigi Lablache Bass
Born 6 Dec 1794 Naples Died 23 Jan 1858
Debut in Molinara (Fioravanti) 1812
Teachers:- Valente, Giovanni Ansani, Turchini, Giovanni Valesi
Pupils :- Joseph Tagliafico, Franz Wallnofer, Heinrich Panofka
Created Giorgio Walton in Puritani (Bellini)
Orasmano in Zaira (Bellini)
Filippo in Bianca e Fernando (Bellini)
Don Pasquale in Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Edward III in Assedio di Calais (Donizetti)
Amur in Elvida (Donizetti)
Murana in Esule di Roma (Donizetti)
Sigismondo in Giovedi Grasso (Donizetti)
Zarete in Paria (Donizetti)
Darlemont in Pazzi Per Progetto (Donizetti)
Noah in Diluvio Universale (Donizetti)
Ircano in Sancio di Castiglia (Donizetti)
Marin Faliero in Marino Faliero (Donizetti)
Falstaff in Falstaff (Balfe)
Massimiliano in Masnadieri (Verdi)
Sallustie in Last Day of Pompei (Pacini)
Erennio in Vestale (Pacini)
Cabana in Amazilia (Pacini)
Anfione in Niobe (Pacini)
Enrico VI in Margherita Regina D'Inghilterra (Pacini)
Ugo di Lacy in Contestabile di Chester (Pacini)
Corrado in Elvezi (Pacini)
Alfonso in Fernando Duca Di Valenza(Pacini)
Escarca in Irene (Pacini)
Birbof in Orfano della Selva (Coccia)
Arnaldo in Figlia dell'Arciere (Coccia)
Arnoldo in Elisa e Claudio (Mercadante)
Claudio in Amleto (Mercadante)
Oswaldo in Costanzo ed Almeriska (Mercadante)
Danao in Ipermestra (Mercadante)
Maximiliano in Briganti (Merrcadante)
Archeo in Italici e Gl'Indiani (Carafa)
Sulemano in Esule di Granata (Meyerbeer)
Philip II in Don Carlos (Costa)
Cristoforo Colombo in Colombo (Ricci L)
Tiberio in Sciocca per Astuzia (Mosca G)
Giocondo in Dama Locandiera (Mosca G)
Abate Del L'Epee in Abate Del L'Epee (Mosca G)
1878 Birth of English composer Rutland BOUGHTON in Aylesbury. d-24 JAN
1960.
1888 Birth of Polish composer Jerzy GABLENZ in Krakow. d-Krakow, 11 NOV 1937.
1890 Birth of Russian tenor Vladimir ROSING in St Petersburg. d-Los Angeles, 24 NOV 1963. Debut as Lensky in Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky) 1912
Teachers:- Jean De Reszke, George Power, Marie Rosing, Giovanni Sbriglia
Joachim Tartakov
Pupils :- Helen Olheim, Jerome Hines
1890 Birth 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
1894 FP of Czech composer Antonin Dvorák's own arrangement of Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home with vocal soloists Sissierette Jones and Harry T. Burleigh. A concert of African-American choral music at Madison Square Concert Hall in NYC.
1895 FP of American composer Edward MacDowell's Indian Suite.
1923 Birth of Austrian born English violinist Eli GOREN in Vienna. d-2000. Was founding leader of the Allegri String Quartet. He studied with Emil Hauser.
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1923 FP of Villa-Lobos Symphonic Poem Mandu-Carara, in NYC.
1930 Birth of Manfred Schenk Bass
Born 23 Jan 1930 Stuttgart Died 13 Dec 1999
Debut 1960
Teacher :- Karl-Heinz Jarius
Created Charles Bovary in Madame Bovary (Sutermeister)
1936 Death of Clara Butt Contralto
Born 1 Feb 1872 Esher Died 23 Jan 1936
Teachers:- J H Blower, Jacques Bouhy, Etelka Gerster, Dan Rootham
Clara Novello Davies
1936 FP of Carlos Chavez's Sinfonia India. A CBS radio broadcast by the Columbia Symphony, conducted by Chavez.
1937 Death of Mieczyslaw Horbowski Baritone
Born 23 July 1849 Doleck Died 23 Jan 1937
Debut 1872
Teachers:- Giovanni Lamperti, Gustave-Hippolyte Roger
Pupils :- Adam Dobosz
1943 FP of Edward "Duke" Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige Suite. It followed a rehearsal performance on the 23 JAN at Rye High School, NY. Ellington
and his orchestra presented their first concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC, presenting the "official" premiere of Ellington's work.
1953 Death of Andres Perello De Segurola Bass
Born 27 Mar 1874 Valencia Spain Died 23 Jan 1953
Debut 1898
Teacher :- Pietro Varvaro
Pupil :- Deanna Durbin
Created Jake Wallace in Fanciulla del West (Puccini)
Amantio di Nicolao in Gianni Schicci (Puccini)
Didier in Madeleine (Herbert)
Sang in premiere of Madame Sans Gene (Giordano)
1960 Death of Rudolf Gerlach-Rusnak Tenor
Born 24 July 1895 Duboulz Died 23 Jan 1960
Debut Rodolfo in Boheme (Puccini) 1923
Teachers:- Eugen Fuchs, Lara, Jacques Stuckgold
1965 Death of Trefor Jones Tenor
Born 27 Aug 1901 Cymmer S Wales Died 23 Jan 1965
Created Hugh in Hugh the Drover (Vaughan-Williams)
1967 Birth of Karmena Radovska Soprano
Born 23 Jan 1967
Teachers:- Katia Angelou, Irina Gavrilovich
1967 Birth of Michael Druiett Bass
Born 23 Jan 1967 London
Debut as Second Prisoner in Fidelio (Beethoven) 1989
Teachers:- Eduardo Asquez, Norman Bailey, Elio Battaglia
Sonja Nerdrum, Josephine Veasey
Created Dalrymple in Friend of the People (Horne)
1967 Death of Yvonne Brothier Soprano
Born 6 June 1889 Ancerville Died 23 Jan 1967
Debut as Lakme in Lakme (Delibes) 1916
Teachers:- Marguerite Long, Paul Vidal, Albert Wolff
Created Virginie in Virginie (Bruneau)
Sang in premiere of Hulla (Samuel-Rousseau)
1968 Death of English composer Teresa Riego in London. b-London, 7 APR 1876.
1973 Death of Piero Menescaldi Tenor
Born 1893 Died 23 Jan 1973
Created Argirolfo in Favorito del Re (Veretti)
Sang in premiere of Diavolo nel Campanile (Lualdi)
Bella e il Monstro (Ferrari-Trecate)
1973 FP of Elliott Carter's String Quartet No. 3. Juilliard String Quartet in NYC. 1973 Pulitzer Prize for music. Carter's second Pulitzer win.
1976 Death of Paul Robeson Bass
Born 9 Apr 1898 Princeton Died 23 Jan 1976
Teachers:- Anna Schoen-Rene, Amanda Aldridge
1989 Death of Julian Miller Tenor
Born 29 Dec 1911 Calcutta Died 23 Jan 1989
Teachers:- Ernesto Beraldi, Cristali
1997 Death of Charles Craig Tenor
Born 3 Dec 1920 London Died 23 Jan 1997
Debut in Boheme (Puccini) 1953
Teachers:- Dino Borgioli, Joseph Hislop
Pupil :- Nan Christie
1999 FP of Thea Musgrave's Three Women. Women's Philharmonic, Apo Hsu conducting in San Francisco, CA.
1981 Death of American composer Samuel Barber at age 70, in NYC. b-West Chester, PA 9 MAR 1910. Buried, Oakland Cemetery,
West Chester, Chester County, PA.
2002 (24th?) Death of American harpsichordist Igor Kipnis in CT. b-Berlin, 27 SEP 1930. Son of bass Alexander Kipnis. Was original member of our MUSIClassical list group.
2003 FP of Lowell Liebermann's Trio No. 2 for Piano, Violin
and Cello by the Beaux Arts Trio in Berlin.
2003 FP of Kaija Saariaho's Orion. Cleveland Orchestra,
Franz Welsar Most, conducting, in Cleveland.
2004 FP of Ingram Marshall's Bright Kingdoms. Oakland East Bay Symphony at Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA.
2004 FP of James Primosch's Matins with oboist Peggy Pearson and Cantata Singers also performing two Bach cantatas in Jordan Hall, Boston, MA.
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