1645 Birth of German composer Gottfried VOPELIUS near Zitlau. d-Leipzig, 3 FEB 1715.
1691 Birth of German composer and organist Johann Balthasar KONIG. d-1776.
1693 Birth of Austrian organist and composer Gregor Joseph WERNER in Donau. d-Burgenland, 3 MAR 1766.
1722 Birth of German composer Johann Ernst BACH, nephew and pupil of Johann
Sebastian Bach. d-Jan 9 1777.
1725 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 92 Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn on Septuagesimae Sunday following Epiphany, was part of Bach's second annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1724-25.
1742 Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift; author of Gulliver's Travels, objects to the cathedral singers performing Handel's works while the composer is in that city.
1754 Death of Danish lawyer and writer Ludwig Holberg at 69. (Grieg: Holberg
Suite).
1756 Birth of composer Hans Adolf Friedrich von ESCHSTRUTH.
1757 Birth of composer Antonio Bartolomeo BRUN.
1768 Death of English organist and composer John Wainwright dies at age 44. b-Stockport, Lancashire, 1723.
1781 Birth of Giovanni Battista Vellutti Castrato
Born 28 Jan 1781 Corridonie Ancona Died 22 Jan 1861
Debut 1801
Teacher :- Abbe Calpi, Padre Mattei
Pupils :- Benedetta Rosamunda Pisaroni
Created Decebalo in Trajiano in Dacia (Nicolini)
Quinto Fabio in Quinto Fabio 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)
1806 FP of Etienne Mehul's opera Les Deux Aveugles in Paris.
1812 Birth of Marie Cornelie Falcon Soprano
Born 28 Jan 1812 Paris Died 25 Feb 1897
Debut Alice in Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer) 20 July 1832
Teachers:- Giulio Bordogni, Henri, Adolphe Nourrit, Pellegrini
Created Amelie in Gustav III (Auber)
Valentine in Huguenots (Meyerbeer)
Rachel in Juive (Halevy)
Leonora in Alessandro Stradella (Niedermayer)
Morgiana in Ali Baba (Cherubini)
1813 Death of Bohemian composer Jan Joseph Rosler at age 45.
1817 Death of composer Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen at age 55.
1828 FP of Franz Schubert's Piano Trio in Bb, Op. 99 D. 898. Ignaz Schuppanzigh, violin, Josef Linke, cello, and Carl Maria von Bocklet, piano.
1830 FP of Auber's opera Fra Diavalo at Opera Comique, Paris.
1832 Birth of composer Franz WULLNER.
1832 Birth of Franz Wullner Teacher of Singing
Born 28 Jan 1832 Died 8 Sep 1902
Pupils :- Therese Behr-Schnabel, Karl Aagard Oestvig,
Alfons Schutzendorf, Guido Schutzendorf
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
1841 Birth of composer Viktor Ernst NESSLER.
1861 Birth of Isadora Luckstone Teacher of Singing
Born 28 Jan 1861 Baltimore Md Died 12 Mar 1941
Pupils :- Lila P Robeson, Rachel Marton, Lambert Murphy,
Ellison van Hoose
1865 Birth of Bianca Bianchi Soprano
Born 28 Jan 1865 Heidelberg 16 Feb 1947
Debut 1873
Teachers:- Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Aurelie Wilczek
Pupil :- Minnie Nast
1868 Birth of Scottish composer Frederic Archibald LAMOND in Glasgow. Was a weaver in the village of Cambuslang, near Glasgow. Lamond didn’t have a music teacher but by studying old church music he learned music notation. He is best remembered as a pianist who was renowned for his interpretation of works by Beethoven. Was a pupil of Liszt.
1875 Birth of Leon Laffitte Tenor
Born 28 Jan 1875 Saint-Genies Died Sep 1938
Debut as David in Meistersingers (Wagner) 1898
Created Pyrame in Pyrame et Thysbe (Tremisot)
Sang in premiere of Astarte (Leroux)
1875 Birth of Mexican composer, conductor and violinist Julian Antonio CARILLO-TRUJILLO in Ahualulco, Mexico. d- Mexico City, 9 SEP 1965. Creative musical investigator of sound 13, buried in the Roundhouse of the Illustrious Men in 1965.
1876 FP of P. I. Tchaikovsky's Serenade mélancolique for violin and orchestra, in Moscow.
1878 Birth of German composer Walter KOLLO (Kollodziepski).
1885 Birth of Jean Athanasiou Baritone
Born 28 Jan 1885 Bucharest Died 20 Nov 1938
Debut as Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1912
Teachers:- Ernesto Colli, Manlio Bavagnoli
1887 Birth of Polish-American pianist Artur RUBINSTEIN
d-Geneva, 20 DEC 1982.
1887 Birth of American composer Lily Theresa STRICKLAND in Anderson, SC. d-Henderson, NC 6 JUN 1958.
1891 Birth of Czech conductor and composer Karel Boleslav JIRAK in Prague. d-Chicago, 30 JAN 1932.
1893 Birth of American pianist, teacher and composer Elliot GRIFFIS in Boston. d-Los Angeles, 8 JUN 1967.
1894 Birth of Laura Pasini Soprano
Born 28 Jan 1894 Varese Died 30 June 1942
Debut as Zerlina in Fra Diavolo (Auber) 1921
Teacher :- Di Pietro
Created Mirand in Donna Serpente (Casella)
1896 Death of English organist, conductor and composer Joseph Barnby at 57 in London. b-York, 12 AUG 1838.
1897 Birth of Fidelia Campigna Soprano
Born 28 Jan 1897 Almeria Andalusia Died 27 Dec 1983
Debut as Margherita in Mefistofele (Boito) 1913
Teacher :- Antonio Dabuyo
Pupil :- Carlos Guichandut
1897 FP of Alexander Glazunov's Symphony No. 5, in London.
1898 Birth of Italian composer Vittorio RIETI in Egypt. d-NYC, 19 FEB 1994.
1913 Birth of Dutch composer Jan MASSEUS in Rotterdam.
1915 FP of Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio in a. Gabriel Wilaume, violin; Louis Feuillard, cello and Alfredo Casella, piano; in Paris.
1916 FP of Enrique Granados' opera Goyescas. MET Opera, NYC.
1916 Birth of English musicologist and composer Peter CROSSLEY-HOLLAND in London.
1918 Birth of Frances Yeend Soprano
Born 28 Jan 1918 Vancouver Washington
Debut as Nedda in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
1923 Birth of Paul Asciak Tenor
Born 28 Jan 1923 Valetta Malta
Teachers:- Paoletti, Ricci, Tomei, Nicolo Badacchino,
Debut as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana (Meyerbeer)
1926 Wedding of composer Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya.
1927 FP of Aaron Copland's Piano Concerto. Boston Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, Coplan was soloist.
1929 (16 JAN 1928? or 12 OCT 1929?)Birth of Spanish soprano Pilar LORENGAR. d-1 JUN 1966. Brief Bio.
1930 Death of Emmy Destinn Soprano
Born 26 Feb 1878 Prague Died 28 Jan 1930
Debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) 19 Jul 1898
Teacher :- Marie Loewe-Destinn
Pupils :- Jarmila Novotna, Ema Miriovska
Created Minnie in Fanciulla del West (Puccini)
Hedwig of Merian in Heirat Wider Willen (Humperdinck)
Elsbeth in Roland of Berlin (Leoncavallo)
Sang in premiere of Lange Kerl (Woikowsky-Biedaus)
1930 Birth of Spanish composer Luis de PABLO in Bilbao.
1932 Death of German-American composer and organist Franz Xavier Arens at 75 in Los Angeles. b-Neef, Prussia 28 OCT 1856.
1931 Birth of Ezio Flagello Bass
Born 28 Jan 1931 New York
Debut as Dulcamara in Elisir d'Amore (Donizetti) 1955
Teachers:- John Brownlee, Luigi Ricci, Friedrich Schorr
Created Enobarbus in Antony & Cleopatra (Barber)
Sultan in Command Performance (Middleton)
1932 Death of composer Irene Wieniawska in London. aka Poldowski and Irene Wieniawska Paul. b- Brussels, 1880.
1933 Birth of Spiro Malas Bass
Born 28 Jan 1933 Baltimore
Debut as Marco in Gianni Schicci (Puccini) 1959
Teacher :- Rosa Ponselle
Pupil :- John Aler
Created Francis Nurse in Crucible (Ward)
Alcinous in Nausicaa (Glanville-Hicks)
1933 Death of Adolf Krossing Tenor
Born 1 Jan 1848 Prazan Died 28 Jan 1933
Debut in Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) 10 Nov 1870
Teacher :- J V Vogel
Created Skrivanek in Secret (Smetana)
Michalek in Devil's Wall (Smetana)
Sang in premiere of Debora (Foerster)
1941 FP of Aaron Copland's Quiet City. Little Symphony conducted by Daniel Saidenberg at Town Hall, NYC. From incidental music he scored for Irwin Shaw's play produced by the Group Theater, 1939 in NYC.
1942 Death of Spanish composer Pablo Luna y Carne at 61. b-Alhama de Aragón, 21 MAY 1879.
1943 Birth of Malvina Major Soprano
Born 28 Jan 1943 Hamilton N Z
Teacher :- Ruth Packer, Sister Mary Leo
1944 Death of Maartje Offers Mezzo-Soprano
Born 27 Feb 1892 Koudekerke Holland Died 28 Jan 1944
Debut as Delilah in Samson et Delilah (Saint-Saens) 1917
Teachers:- Pauline De Haan-Manifarges, Frau Hekking, Arnold Spoel
1944 Birth of British avant-garde composer John TAVENER in London.
1944 FP of Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah. Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by the composer, mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, PA.
1947 Death of Venezuelan-French conductor and composer Reynaldo Hahn at age 72 in Paris. b-Caracas, 9 AUG 1874.
1948 Death of Polish composer Ignaz Friedman in Sydney. b-Podgorze, 13 FEB 1882.
1949 Death of Swedish composer Gustav Lazarus Nordqvist at 62.
1952 Death of Anton Sekar-Rozhansky Tenor
Born 18 May 1863 Died 28 Jan 1952
Teacher :- Stanislaus Gabel
Created Sadko in Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Guidon in Tsar Sultan (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Lykov in Tsar's Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov)
1954 Death of Allen Hinckley Bass
Born 11 Oct 1877 Gloucester Mass Died 28 Jan 1954
Debut as King in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1903
Teachers:- Oscar Saenger, Rudolf Schachner, Siegfried Wagner
Cosima Wagner
1959 Death of Austrian conductor and composer Viktor Joseph Keldorfer at 85 in Vienna. b-Salzburg, 14 APR 1873.
1960 Death of Ettore Parmeggiani Tenor
Born 15 Aug 1895 Rimini 28 Jan 1960
Debut as Cavaradossi in Tosca (Puccini) 1921
Teacher :- Giuseppe Mandolini
Created Nevo in Nerone (Mascagni)
Collatino in Lucrezia (Respighi)
Sang in premiere Giulio Cesare (Malipiero)
1960 Death of Austrian-American pianist composer Jacques de Menasce at 54 in Gstaad, Switzerland. b-Bad Ischl, 19 AUG 1905. French-Egyptian father and German mother.
1962 Death of Austrian born violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler.
1965 Death of Belgian composer Jef van Durme at 57 in Brussels. b-Kemzeke-Waas, 7 MAY 1907.
1967 Death of Greek Evans Baritone
Born 1889 Omaha Nebraska Died 28 Jan 1967
Teacher :- Giuseppe Campanari
1971 William Bolcom finishes Poltergeist Rag which he dedicated to Teresa Sterne, former concert pianist and producer for Nonesuch Records. Apparently written in a converted garage next to a graveyard in Newburgh, N.Y.
1972 FP of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha. The orchestration by T.J. Anderson, in Atlanta.
1973 Death of Sergei Radamsky Teacher of Singing
Born 1899 Lodz Died 28 Jan 1973
Pupils :- William Blankenship, Claudio Nicolai, Kari Nurmela, Theo Bayle
Elfego Esparza, Otto von Rohr, Frederick Guthrie, Jerry Jennings
1981 Death of Agostino Lazzari Tenor
Born 17 Nov 1919 Genoa Died 28 Jan 1981
Debut as Almaviva in Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) 1943
Teachers:- Angelo Costaguta, Dino Giacobbini, Vincenzo Marini
Created Opponent in Partita a Pugni (Tosatti)
Parmeno in Celestina (Testi)
Sang in premiere of Dottore di Vetro (Vlad)
Amleto (Zafred)
1990 FP of Joan Tower's Flute Concerto. Carol Wincenc and the American Composers Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, conducting, at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
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