1630 Marriage of Italian opera composer Pier Francesco Cavalli, (1602-1676), to rich widow Maria Sosomeno.
1634 Birth of German composer Adam KRIEGER in Dresden. d-Dresden, 30 JUN 1666.
1725 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 124 Meinen Hesum lass ich nicht on the 1st Sunday following Epiphany. Was part of Bach's second annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1724-25.
1738 Vivaldi conducts the orchestra celebrating the centennial of Amsterdam's Schouwburg Theater.
1764 FP of Gluck's opera La Rencontre Imprevue in Vienna.
1842 FP of Rossini's Stabat Mater, at the Salle Ventadour, Paris.
1868 Birth of Eugenia Zbruyeva Mezzo-Soprano
Born 7 Jan 1868 Moscow Died 29 Oct 1936
Teacher :- Elizaveta Andre Lavrovskaya
Pupil :- Claudia Novikova
Debut as Vanya in Ivan Susannin (Glinka)
Created Alkonost in Invisible City of Kitesh (Rimsky-Korsakov)
1872 Birth of Austrian concert violinist and teacher Anton WITEK. Played three
concertos in one night in Berlin (Beethoven, Brahms and Paganini). Was concertmaster of
the Boston Symphony (1910-18).
1874 Birth of Francis MacLennan Tenor
Born 7 Jan 1874 Bay City Michigan Died 17 July 1935
Debut as Beppe in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) Aug 1902
Teachers:- George Henschel, Von Emmerich
Sang in premiere of The Angelus (Naylor)
1875 Birth of Friedrich Plaschke Bass-Baritone
Born 7 Jan 1875 Jaromer Died 4 Feb 1952
Debut as Herald in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1900
Teachers:- Karl Scheidemantel, Ottilie Sklenar-Mala, Leontine von Dotscher
Created Altair in Aegyptische Helena (Strauss)
Graf Waldner is Arabella (Strauss)
Sir Morosus Blunt in Schweigdame Frau (Strauss)
Kasel in Feuersnot (Strauss)
Aecesius in Toten Augen (D'Albert)
1st Nazarene in Salome (Strauss)
Mr Wu in Mister Wu (D'Albert)
Sang in premiere of Der Moloch (Von Schilling)
Schirm und Gertraude (Graener)
Penthesilea (Schoeck)
1876 Birth of British composer and pianist William Yeates HURLSTONE in London. d-London, 30
MAY 1906.
1886 Birth of Josef Kalenberg Tenor
Born 7 Jan 1886 Cologne Died 5 Nov 1962
Debut as Cavaradossi in Tosca (Puccini) 1911
Sang in premiere of Die Bakchantinnen (Wellesz)
1888 Birth of Melitta Heim Soprano
Born 7 Jan 1888 Vienna Died Jan 1950
Debut as Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1909
Teacher :- Johannes Ress
1895 Birth of Rumanian pianist Clara HASKEL. She was given a scholarship by the Queen of
Romania at the age 6. d- 1960.
1895 FP of Brahms' Sonatas in f & Eb for clarinet and piano, in Vienna.
1900 Birth of John Brownlee Baritone
Born 7 Jan 1900 Geelong Melbourne Died 3 Jan 1969
Debut as Nilakantha in Lakme (Delibes) 1926
Teachers:- Ivor Boustead, Emilio De Gogorza, Dinh Gilly
Pupils :- Barbara Blanchard, Ezio Flagello, Johanna Meier, Oscar Natzka
Created Guido II in Judgement of St Francis (Flagello)
1900 Birth of Walter Grossmann Baritone
Born 7 Jan 1900 Dresden Died 14 Sep 1973
Debut 1922
Teacher :- Waldemar Staegemann
Created Stranger in Peer Gynt (Egk)
Sang in premiere of Prinz von Homburg (Graener)
1907 Birth of Basque Harpist Nicanor ZABALETA in San Sebastian, Spain.
d-Puerto Rico 1993.
1908 Birth of Frederick Dalberg Bass
Born 7 Jan 1908 Newcastle Died 9 May 1988
Debut as Hermit in Freischutz (Weber) 1930
Teacher :- Walter Soomer
Pupils :- Joyce Barker, Evelyn Dalberg, Angelo Gobbato
Created John Claggert in Billy Budd (Britten)
Sir Walter Raleigh in Gloriana (Britten)
Calkas in Troilus & Cressida (Walton)
Cousin Brandon in Long Christmas Dinner (Hindemith)
1912 Birth of German conductor Gunther WAND in Eberfeld. Photo. d-14 FEB 2002.
1917 Birth of composer Ulysses Simpson KAY in Tucson Arizona. He received a B.M. degree in 1938 from the University of Arizona. Studied with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers at the Eastman School. d-Englewood, NJ 20 MAY 1995.
1921 Birth of John Lanigan Tenor
Born 7 Jan 1921 Seddon Victoria
Debut as Fenton in Falstaff (Verdi) 1949
Teachers:- Dino Borgioli, Horace Stevens
Created Cardinal in Taverner (Maxwell Davies)
Mr Jones in Victory (Rodney Bennett)
Sang in premiere of We Come to the River (Henze)
Midsummer Marriage (Tippett)
1923 Birth of Colette Lorand Soprano
Born 7 Jan 1923 Zurich
Debut as Marguerite in Faust (Gounod) 1946
Teacher :- Melitza Hirzel
Created Regan in Lear (Reimann)
Mary Stuart in Elisabeth Tudor (Fortner)
Prima Donna in Incidents at an Emergency Landing (Blacher)
1924 American composer George Gershwin, 1898-1937, completes his piano score of the Rhapsody In
Blue.
1926 Birth of Georg Paskuda Tenor
Born 7 Jan 1926 Ratibor
Debut 1951
Sang in premiere of Belshazar (Kirchner)
Aucassin und Nicolette (Bialas)
1927 Birth of Renato Sassola Tenor
Born 7 Jan 1927 Rosario Argentina
Debut as Rodolfo in Boheme (Puccini) 1951
Teachers:- Ferruccio Calusio, Juan Martini, Felipe Romito, Hina Spani
Ernesto De La Guardia, Otto Erhart
Pupils :- Marcelo Alvarez, Erwin Sehror
Sang in premiere of Bodas de Sangre (Castro)
1928 Birth of American musical composer Charles STROUSE. Tony Award-winning composer of Bye Bye Birdiealso composed the theme song to television's long-running hit sitcom, All in the Family. Works list.
1930 Birth of Gunter Kobrich Baritone
Born 7 Jan 1930 Gefell
Sang in premiere of Heiratsantrag (Rottger)
1931 Birth of American composer Henry WEINBERG.
1932 Birth of American composer David A. ROBB.
1933 FP of Gruenberg's opera Emperor Jones based on play by Eugene O'Neill, at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.
1936 Death of French composer and teacher Helen Guy Hardelot in London. b-suburban Boulogne 1858. aka Helen M. Rhodes. Composed standard, Because.
1941 Birth of English violinist, composer and conductor Iona BROWN. From a musical family in Salisbury, England. She studied in Rome, Brussels, Vienna and with Henryk Szeryng in Paris. She was a central figure in British music-making through playing with, and then directing, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields as it became the world's most recorded chamber orch. d-of cancer, 5 JUN 2004 at age 63. Obit by Anne Inglis, in Guardian Unlimited.
1942 FP of Aaron Copland's Statements for Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, New York Philharmonic was conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
1946 Death of Adamo Didur Bass
Born 24 Dec 1874 Sanok Poland Died 7 Jan 1946
Debut as Mepistopheles in Faust (Gounod) 1894
Teachers:- Franz Emmerich, Valerie Wysocki
Pupils :- Ira Malaniuk, Marian Nowakowski, Eugenia Zareska
Andrzej Hiolski
Created Ashby in Fanciulla del West (Puccini)
Woodcutter in Konigskinder (Humperdinck)
Win-Shee in Oracolo (Leoni)
Talpa in Tabarro (Puccini)
Simone in Gianni Schicci (Puccini)
Sang in premiere of Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven)
Anima Allegra (Vittadini)
La Figlia di Jorio (Franchetti)
1946 Death of Giuseppe Krismer Tenor
Born 10 Sep 1876 Naples Died 7 Jan 1946
Debut as Fernando in Favorita (Donizetti) 1903
1952 FP of Gail Kubik's Symphonie-Concertante in NYC. Awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
1955 MET Opera debut of Marian Anderson as Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Mascera. Also see: Randye L. Jones' biography of Contralto Marian Anderson. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1897. d-1993.
1955 FP of Bohuslav Martinu's Symphony No. 6 Fantaisies symphoniques, by the Boston Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch.
1964 Death of American composer Colin McPhee, in Los Angeles. b-Montreal, Canada, 15 MAR 1900. Biography.
1964 Death of Ingeborg Steffensen Mezzo-Soprano
Born 4 Jun 1888 Copenhagen Died 7 Jan 1964
Debut as Aennchen in Freischutz (Weber) 1916
Pupil :- Hanna Allin
1975 Death of Maria Carpi Soprano / Teacher of Singing
Born 1912 Died 7 Jan 1975
Debut 1941
Pupils :- Jennifer Vyvyan, Jean Bonhomme, Anne Evans, Andrew Foldi
Della Jones, Gwyneth Jones, Michael Langdon.
Margaret Neville, Katherine Pring, Catherine Wilson, Geraint Evans
Rita Gorr, Ernst Haefliger, Simone Mangelsdorff,
Eric Tappy, Elizabeth Vaughan
1978 Birth of Canadian composer Mathew Alexander LOWES in Toronto.
1983 Death of Edith Coates Mezzo-Soprano
Born 31 May 1908 Osmanthorpe Lincolnshire Died 7 Jan 1983
Debut as Giovanna in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1924
Teachers:- Dino Borgioli, Clive Carey, Dawson Freer
Created Auntie in Peter Grimes (Britten)
Housewife in Gloriana (Britten)
Mrs Bardeau in Olympians (Bliss)
Priestess in Midsummer Marriage (Tippett)
Mrs Johnson in Moon & Sixpence (Gardner)
An Maggy in Logan Rock (Gundry)
Sang in premiere of Manana (Benjamin)
1984 Death of Anna Case Soprano
Born 29 Oct 1888 Clinton NJ Died 7 Jan 1984
Debut as Page in Lohengrin (Wagner) 20 Nov 1909
Teacher :- Augusta Ohrstrom-Renard
1995 Death of Luben Vichey Bass
Born 18 Jun 1912 Sofia Died 7 Jan 1995
Teacher :- Kristina Morfova
Debut 1933
Sang in premiere of Casanova in der Schweiz (Burkhard)
Die Errettung Thebens (Kelterborn)
2000 FP of Richard Danielpour's The Night Rainbow by the Pacific Symphony, Carl St. Clair conducting, in Santa Anna, CA.
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