1735 FP of Pergolesi's opera L'Olimpiade, with libretto by Metastasio, at the Teatro Tordinona in Rome.
1788 Birth of Archduke Rudolph, Austrian amateur musician
and music patron, Beethoven's friend and pupil. Youngest son of Emperor Leopold
II and youngest brother of Emperor Franz, was Beethoven's greatest patron. Fidelio
dedicated to him as well as Emporer concerto and
Archduke Trio.
1792 Birth of American organist, composer and conductor Lowell MASON, in Medfield
MA, composed
Nearer My God To Thee. Father of pianist William Mason.
Grandfather of composer Daniel Gregory Mason all influenced
early American music. d-Orange, New Jersey 11 AUG 1872.
1812 Birth of Swiss composer and pianist Sigismond THALBERG in Pâquis. d-suburban Napoli, 27 APR 1871.
1822 Birth of Italian composer and cellist Alfredo PIATTI in Borgo Canale. d-Crosetta de Mozzo, 18 JUL 1901.
1830 Birth of German pianist,
conductor, musical writer and first husband of Cosima Liszt Wagner, Hans Von BULOW in Dresden, Germany. d-Cairo, 12 FEB 1894.
1831 Death of Moravian-born composer and violinist Franz Krommer in Vienna. b-Kamenitz, Moravia 27 NOV 1759.
1840 Birth of Antonietta Fricci Soprano
Born 8 Jan 1840 Vienna Died 9 Sep 1912
Debut as Violetta in Traviata (Verdi) 1858
Teacher :- Mathilde Marchesi
Pupils :- Cesira Ferrani, Cesira Zanazzio
Created Aldone in I Lituani (Ponchielli)
1843 FP of Schumann's Piano Quintet. Clara Schumann was pianist at Leipzig Gewandhaus.
1846 Birth of American composer William Wallace GILCHRIST. Philadelphia choirmaster at St. Clement's Church. Founded Mendelssohn Club in Philadelphia in 1874. d-1916.
1852 Birth of French composer Gabriel Prosper MARIE in Paris. d-Puigcerdá, Spain, 29 AUG 1928.
1854 Birth of Adele Isaac Soprano
Born 8 Jan 1854 Calais Died 22 Oct 1915
Debut in Noces de Jeanette (Masse) 1870
Teacher :- Louis-Gilbert Duprez
Created Olympia, Giuditta, Antonia & Stella in Contes d'Hoffman (Offenbach)
Minka in Roi Malgre Lui (Chabrier)
1870 Birth of Mme Charles Cahier Mezzo-Soprano
Born 8 Jan 1870 Nashville Died 15 Apr 1951
Debut as Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) 1904
Teachers:- Jean De Reszke, Ernestinoff, Amalie Joachim, Gustav Walter
Pupils :- Rosette Anday, Gota Ljunberg, Else Brems
1880 Birth of Melanie Kurt Soprano
Born 8 Jan 1880 Vienna Died 11 Mar 1941
Debut as Elisabeth in Tannhauser (Wagner) 1902
Teachers:- Marie Lehmann, Mark Lohmann, Fanny Mutter
1883 Birth of Waino Sola Tenor
Born 8 Jan 1883 Berlin Died 12 Oct 1961
Teacher :- Ettore Gandolfi, Sofia Roiha
Created Esko in Nuumisuutarit (Kauppi)
1887 Birth of Benno Ziegler Bass-Baritone
Born 8 Jan 1887 Munich Died 13 Apl 1963
Debut as Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1909
Teacher :- Paul Bender
Created Husband in Von Heute auf Morgen (Schoenberg)
1890 Death of Giorgio Ronconi Baritone
Born 6 Aug 1810 Milan Died 8 Jan 1890
Debut as Valdeburgo in Straniera (Bellini) 1831
Teachers:- Domenico Ronconi (father), Ciro Pinsuti, Elizabeth Seguin
Pupils :- Catherine Hayes, Ferdinand Sieber, Lorenzo Abrunedo
Created Nabucco in Nabucco (Verdi)
Don Pedro in Maria Padilla (Donizetti)
Cardenio in Furioso all'Isola di San Domingo (Donizetti)
Torquato Tasso in Torquato Tasso (Donizetti)
Enrico in Campanello di Notte (Donizetti)
Nello in Pia di Tolomei (Donizetti)
Corrado di Waldorff in Maria Rudenz (Donizetti)
Enrico of Chevreuse in Maria di Rohan (Donizetti)
Memmo in Francesca Donato (Donizetti)
1892 Birth of Dutch cellist and conductor Hans KINDLER in
Rotterdam, Holland. In 1931 appointed first conductor of the
National Symphony, Washington, DC.
1895 FP of Johaness Brahms' Clarinet Sonata, Op. 120, no. 1 with clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, Brahms at the piano, in Vienna.
1911 FP of Florent Schmitt's orchestral work La tragédie de Salomé, in Paris.
1912 Birth of Dutch composer Rudolf ESCHER in Amsterdam. d-Amsterdam, 17 MAR 1980.
1914 Birth of American composer Charles Borromeo MILLS. d-7 MAR 1982.
1915 Birth of Karl Donch Bass-Baritone
Born 8 Jan 1915 Hagen Died 16 Sep 1994
Debut 1936
Created Leiokritos in Penelope (Liebermann)
St Just in Danton's Tod (Von Einem)
Sang in premiere of Zaubertrank (Martin)
Sturm (Martin)
1922 Birth of American pianist Abby SIMON (male) in NYC.
1923 Birth of Giorgio Tozzi Bass
Born 8 Jan 1923 Chicago
Debut as Tarquinius in Rape of Lucretia (Britten) 1948
Teachers:- Vida Harford, John Dagget Howell, Giulio Lorandi, Rosa Raisa
Giacomo Rimini, Arnold Flogl
Pupil :- Willard White
Created Old Doctor in Vanessa (Barber)
1923 First broadcast of an opera direct from a concert hall
when the BBC broadcasts Mozarts's The Magic Flute in
London.
1923 Birth of American bass Giorgio TOZZI in Chicago.
1924 Birth of Russian American composer Benjamin LEES
(Lysniansky) in Harbin, Manchuria.
1925 Birth of Norman Foster Baritone
Born 6 Jan 1925
1925 Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's American debut conducting the NY Philahrmonic in a concert of his
works.
1926 Birth of soprano Evelyn LEAR in Brooklyn, NY. Debut as Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss) 1959
Teachers:- Irma Beilke, Daniel Ferro, Maria Ivogun, Sergius Kagan
John Yard, Frederick Cohen
Created Margo in Minutes from Midnight (Ward)
Lavinia Mannon in Mourning Becomes Electra (Levy)
Irina Arkadina in Seagull (Pasatieri)
Jeanne in Verlobung in San Domingo (Egk)
Alkmene in Alkmene (Klebe)
Ranyevskaya in Kirschgarten (Kelterborn)
1927 Birth of Mario Zanasi Baritone
Born 8 Jan 1927 Bologna
Debut as Herald in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1954
1927 FP of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite for string quartet by the Kolisch Quartet in Vienna.
1932 Birth of Bruno Tomaselli Baritone
Born 8 Jan 1932 Buenos Aires
Debut as Falke in Fledermaus (Strauss) 1965
Teachers:- Alfred Barsanti, Enrique Ricci, Maurice Sorin, Thea Vitulli
Sang in premiere of Voz de Silencio (Perusso)
1937 Birth of American composer Robert MORAN, in Denver, CO.
1938 Birth of Russian bass Evgeny NESTERENKO in Moscow
Debut as Gremin in Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky) 1963
Teachers:- Vassily Lukanin, Maria Matveyeva
Pupils :- Nicolai Reshetniak, Arutjun Kotchinian, Laszlo Polgar
Barseg Tumanyan
1940 FP of Roger Sessions' Violin Concerto. Illinois Symphony conducted by Izler Solomon, Robert Gross was soloist.
1942 Death of Norwegian composer Catharinus Elling in Oslo. b-Oslo, 13 SEP 1858.
1943 Birth of American composer James MARSHALL.
1946 Birth of Australian opera producer Elijah MOSHINSKY.
1948 Death of Austrian-English tenor and composer Richard Tauber in London at 55
years. Born 16 May 1891 Linz Austria Died 8 Jan 1948
Debut Tamino in Zauberflote (Mozart) 2 Mar 1913
Teacher :- Carl Beines
Created Totenhaus in Eroberer (Brangts-Buys)
Hein in Fremde (Kaun)
Goethe in Frederike (Lehar)
Octavio in Giuditta (Lehar)
Sou Chong in Land des Lachelns (Lehar)
Tsarevich in Zarewitsch (Lehar)
Sang in premiere of Perlen der Cleopatra (Straus O)
Fruhlingstraume (Weinberger)
1950 Death of Hilbert Vavra Baritone
Born 9 Apr 1888 Prague Died 8 Jan 1950
Debut as Onegin in Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky) 21 Jan 1912
Teachers:- Mattia Battistini, Dinh Gilly, Antonin Vavra (father)
Pupils :- Jaroslav Gleich, Stepanka Jelinkova, Ladislav Mraz
Jarmila Novotna, Jarmila Palivcova
1963 FP of second version of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District at the Stanislavsky-Nemirovich-Dachenko Music Theater in Moscow.
1975 Death of opera star Richard TUCKER on a tour in Michigan. Born 28 Aug 1913 Brooklyn Died 8 Jan 1975
Debut as Alfredo in Traviata (Verdi) 1943
Teachers:- Paul Althouse, J S Weiser, Martino, Borghetti, Wilhousky
1976 Death of George Baker Baritone
Born 10 Feb 1885 Birkenhead Died 8 Jan 1976
Teachers:- Gustave Garcia, John Acton
Pupil :- Richard Angus
1987 Death of Spanish composer Manuel Blancafort in Barcelona. b-Barcelona, 12 AUG 1897.
1987 FP of Christopher Rouse's Phaethon. Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conducting.
1988 FP of Joseph Schwantner's Fantasy for Guitar and Orchestra, From Afar... Guitarist Sharon Isbin with the St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting.
1998 Death of British composer Sir Michael Tippett at his south London
home at 93 years. b-London, 2 JAN 1905.
2004 Postponment of FP of Oliver Knussen's Cleveland Pictures. In a Cleveland Plain Dealer article the Cleveland Orchestra's, Franz Welser-MÖst, conductor, says they hope to do it in the 2004-05 season. The composer was unable to finish the final movement in time for rehearsals. The Lutoslawski Symphony No. 4 will be moved from next weeks program for performance on this program which also features the R. Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 with Richard King on horn and Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. 8 p.m. Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH.
2004 FP of Stephen Jones' at the exactest point by the Chicago Symphony. Jones is the dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University. Conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, music director of the Chicago Lyric Opera. Also on the program Prokofiev's Suite from Cinderella and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 featuring pianist Louis Lortie, at the Chicago Symphony Center.
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