1572 Death of Portugese composer and politician Amiao de Goes in Lisbon. b-Alemquer 1502.
1697 Birth of German composer Johann Joachim QUANTZ in Oberscheden, Hannover. d-Potsdam, 12 JUL 1773.
1724 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 81 Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? performed on the 4th Sunday following Epiphany was part of Bach's first annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1723-24.
1735 FP of Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 14 Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit performed on the 4th Sunday following Epiphany, in Leipzig.
1766 Death of Susanna Cibber Mezzo-Soprano
Born Feb 1714 London Died 30 Jan 1766
Debut as Amalie in Amelie (Lampe)
Teacher :- Thomas Arne (brother)
Created Micah in Samson (Handel)
Lichas in Hercules (Handel)
1774 Death of Italian composer, violinst and teacher Jean-Pierre Guignon in Versailles, France. b-Turin, Italy 10 FEB 1702.
1774 Death of Bohemian composer and violist Frantisek Tuma in Vienna. b-Kostelecz, 2 OCT 1704.
1833 Birth of Marie Wilt Soprano
Born 30 Jan 1833 Vienna Died 24 Sep 1891
Debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Mozart) 1865
Teachers:- Desiree Artot de Padilla, Joseph Gausbacher, Wolf
Pupil :- Alfred Oberlander
Created Sulamith in Queen of Sheba (Goldmark)
1841 Birth of Giuseppe Del Puente Baritone
Born 30 Jan 1841 Naples Died 25 May 1900
Pupil :- Joseph Carl Breil
1847 Birth of Joseph Maas Tenor
Born 30 Jan 1847 Dartford Died 16 Jan 1886
Debut as Phassilis in Babil & Bijou (Herve / Clay)
Teachers:- Mme Bodda-Pyne, J L Hopkins, Antonio San Giovanni
1861 Birth of Naturalized American composer Charles Martin LOEFFLER, in Mulhouse, Alsace. d-Medfield, MA 19 MAY 1935.
1862 Birth of German conductor Walter DAMROSCH in Breslau. d-1950.
1874 Death of Adelaide Comelli-Rubini Soprano
Born 1798 Paris Died 30 Jan 1874
Teacher :- Davide Banderali
Created Aline in Alina Regina di Golconda (Donizetti)
Metilde in Gianni di Calais (Donizetti)
Nina in Giovedi Grasso (Donizetti)
Cocismano in Italici e Gl'Indiani (M E Carafa)
Edita in Talismano (Pacini)
Anaide in Anacreonte in Samo (Mercadante)
Indatir in Sciti (Mercadante)
Clementina in Abate Dell'Epee (G Mosca)
Sang in premiere of La Sposa Indiana (Generali)
1876 Birth of Emil Stiebel Bass-Baritone
Born 30 Jan 1876 Stockholm Died 15 Jul 1950
Debut 1902
Teachers:- Julius Gunther, Gillis Bratt
Sang in premiere Domedagsprofeterna (Peterson-Berger)
Resa till Amerika (Rosenberg)
Judith (Berg N)
Marionetter (Rosenberger)
Singoalla (De Frumerie)
1879 Birth of Jeanne Hatto Soprano
Born 30 Jan 1879 St Amour Frace Died Mar 1958
Debut as Brunehild in Sigurd (Reyer)
Sang in premiere of Barbares (Saint-Saens)
Astarte(Leroux)
Roi Arthus (Chausson)
La Voila du Bonheur (Pons)
1881 Death of Belgian composer and organist Nicolas Jacques LEMMENS in Linterpoort. b-Zoerle-Parwijs, 3 JAN 1823.
1885 Birth 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
1892 Birth of American composer Charles HAUBIEL in Delta, OH. d-1978.
1893 FP of Johannes Brahms's Fantasies for piano Nos. 1-3, from Op. 117; Intermezzo No. 2, from Op. 117, in Vienna.
1895 Birth of Georg Hann Bass-Baritone
Born 30 Jan 1897 Vienna Died 9 Dec 1950
Debut 1927
Teacher :- Theodor Lierhammer
Created Sergeant in Friedenstag (Strauss)
La Roche in Capriccio (Strauss)
Sang in premiere of Lucedia (Giannini)
1897 Death of German composer Karl Gramman in Dresden. b-Lubeck, 3 JUN 1844.
1897 Death of Mikhail Koryakin Bass
Born 31 Mar 1850 Kochtka Died 30 Jan 1897
Debut 1878
Teacher :- Alexandra Alexandrova-Kochetov
Created Thibault in Maid of Orleans (Tchaikovsky)
Konchak in Prince Igor (Borodin)
Bermate in Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Kitschiga in Zauberin (Tchaikovsky)
Sang in premiere of Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky)
1916 Birth of Rina Gigli Soprano
Born 30 Jan 1916 Naples Died 22 Aug 2000
Debut as Suzel in Amico Fritz (Mascagni) 1936
Teacher :- Beniamino Gigli
Sang in premiere of Jura (Gabriel)
1916 Death of William Samuell Baritone
Born 1885 Swansea Died 30 Jan 1916
Debut as Dapertutto in Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) 1911
Teacher :- Frederick King
1917 FP of Alexander Zemlinsky's opera A Florentine Tragedy at the Hoftheater in Stuttgart.
1919 Death of Friedrich Weidemann Baritone
Born 1 Jan 1871 Ratzeberg Died 30 Jan 1919
Debut 1896
Teachers:- Wilhelm Vilmar, Conrad Muschler
San in premiere of Der Musikant (Bittner)
1921 FP of Carl Nielsen's incidental music to The Mother in Copenhagen.
1924 Birth of Helen Vanni Mezzo-Soprano
Born 30 Jan 1924 Davenport Iowa
Debut as Page in Rigoletto 1956
Teachers:- Marinka Gurewich, Martin Rich, Edyth Walker
Pupil :- Dolora Zajick
1933 German musicians flee Germany as Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor.
1933 Birth of American conductor and clarinetist Richard Dufallo, in East Chicago, Indiana. d-Denton, TX 16 JUN 2000 of stomach cancer.
1934 Death of Louis Morrison Tenor
Born 11 May 1888 Antwerp Died 30 Jan 1934
Debut as Manrico in Trovatore (Verdi) 1 Oct 1909
Teacher :- Edmond Delit, Desire Pauwels, Edgar Tinel
Created Bassiono in Shylock (Alpeartz)
1939 Death of Giuseppe Radaelli Tenor
Born 1885 Died 30 Jan 1939
Debut as Enzo in Gioconda (Ponchielli) 1915
Teacher :- Vincenzo Manni
Sang in premiere of Grazia (Richetti)
Ivania (Pizzi)
1940 Birth of American composer David Carl JOHNSON.
1942 FP of Aaron Copland's Orchestral Suite Billy the Kid ballet suite, by the Boston Symphony.
1954 Birth of Jochem Kowalski Counter-Tenor
Born 30 Jan 1954 Wachow
Teacher :- Marianne Fischer-Kupfer
Created Creon in Freispruch fur Medea (Liebermann)
Farinelli in Farinelli (Matthus)
Sang in premiere of Antigonae (Katzer)
1954 Death of Ferdinando Ciniselli Tenor
Born 14 Mar 1893 Mortara Died 30 Jan 1954
Debut as Alfredo in Traviata (Verdi) 1919
Pupil :- Primo Zambruno
Created Renato in Via della Finestra (Zandonai)
1958 FP of William Walton's Partita for Orchestra in Cleveland.
1959 Death of Therese Schnabel-Behr Mezzo-Soprano
Born 14 Sep 1876 Died 30 Jan 1959
Teachers:- Etelka Gerster, Julius Stockhausen, Schulz-Dornburg
Franz Wullner
Pupils :- Signe Rappe, Maria Stader, Peter Pears, Lotte Leonard
1959 FP of Paul Hindemith's Pittsburgh Symphony by the Pittsburgh Symphony, Hindemith conducting.
1960 Birth of Yvonne Barclay Soprano
Born 30 Jan 1960 Ayrshire
Debut as 1st Boy in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1983
Teachers:- Dell'Acqua, Neilson Taylor
Created Woman in Panic (Sawer)
Aphrodite / Cow 1 in Judgement of Paris (Woolrich)
1960 Birth of Gerald Finlay Baritone
Born 30 Jan 1960 Montreal Canada
Debut as Figaro in Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) 1986
Teachers:- Gary Relyea, John York Skinner, Lyndon van der Pump
Created Harry Heegan in Silver Tassle (Turnage)
Mr Fox in Fantastic Mister Fox (Picker)
1963 Death of French composer Francis Poulenc, at age 64, in Paris. b-Paris, 7 JAN 1899.
1968 Death of Gladys Axman Taylor Soprano
Born 1895 Boston Died 30 Jan 1968
Debut in Oiseau Bleu (Wolff) 27 Dec 1917
1969 Death of Giovanni Martinelli Tenor
Born 22 Oct 1880 Padua Died 30 Jan 1969
Debut as Ernani in Ernani (Verdi) 29 Dec 1910
Teacher :- Giuseppe Mandolini
Pupil :- David Thaw, Jack Harrold, Carol Fox
Created Don Fernando in Goyescas (Granados)
Lefebvre in Madame Sans Gene (Giordano)
Sang in premiere of Melenis (Zandonai)
Mori di Valenzia (Ponchielli)
1969 Death of Fritzi Massary Soprano
Born 31 Mar 1882 Vienna Died 30 Jan 1969
Sang in premiere of Perlen der Cleopatra (O Straus)
Letzte Walzer (O Straus)
Tanz um die Liebe (O Straus)
Teresina (O Straus)
Konigen (O Straus)
Frau die Weiss was sie Will (O Straus)
Liebe Augusten (Fall)
Kaiserin (Fall)
Spanische Nachtigall (Fall)
Madame Pompadour (Fall)
1969 Birth of Canadian composer Keith DENNING in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
1970 FP of William Schuman's In Praise of Shahn in NYC.
1995 Death of Irma Handler Soprano
Born 6 Sep 1907 Philipsburg Died 30 Jan 1995
Created Xanthe in Liebe der Danae (Strauss)
1997 Death of Carlo Zampighi Tenor
Born 1927 Forli Died 30 Jan 1997
Debut 1951
Teachers:- Frau Baldoni, Marchesa Cavalli-Foschi, Magda Olivero
1998 Death of Richard Cassilly Tenor
Born 4 Dec 1927 Washington DC Died 30 Jan 1998
Debut as Michele in Saint of Bleeker St (Menotti) 1955
Teacher :- Hans Heinz, Rosa Ponselle
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