1681 Birth of German composer George Phillip TELEMANN in Magdeburg.
He turned down the post of cantor at the Leipzig St. Thomas
School that eventually was given to J. S. Bach. d-Hamburg, 25 JUN
1767.
1714 (8th?)Birth of German composer Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH, third son, second surviving son, of J.S., in Vienna.
1734 FP of G. F. Handel's anthem This is the day which the Lord hath made for the wedding of Princess Anne and Prince Willem, the Prince of Orange, at the French Chapel of St. James's Palace, in London.
1796 Birth of Anton Haizinger Tenor
Born 14 Mar 1796 Lichtenstein Died 31 Dec 1869
Debut as Gianetto in Gazza Ladra (Rossini) 1821
Teachers:- Giuseppe Mozatti, Woelkert
Created Adolar in Euryanthe (Weber)
1804 Birth of Austrian composer Johann STRAUSS, Sr. in Vienna.
d- 25 SEP 1849. Was father of Josef and Johann, Jr. d-25 SEP 1849.
1815 Birth of German-American composer Josephine LANG. d-2 DEC 1880.
1824 FP of Franz Schubert's String Quartet in a, D. 804. Schuppanzigh Quartet in Vienna. Published in September, 1824, it was the only chamber work by Schubert published during his life.
1857 Birth of Eduard Aschenbrenner Bass
Born 14 Mar 1857 Jicin Died 2 Nov 1921
Debut 1879
Teacher :- Jan Lukes
Sang in premiere of Porin (Lisinski)
1859 Death of Nicola Tacchinardi Tenor
Born 3 Sep 1772 Livorno Died 14 Mar 1859
Debut 1804
Teacher :- Gaetano Crivelli
Pupils :- Erminia Frezzolini, Fanny Persiani
Created Aristodemo in Sacrifizio D'Epito (Carafa)
Temistocle in Temistocle (Pacini)
Jarba in Didone Abbandonata (Mercadante)
Feraspe in Nitocri (Mercadante)
Duca di Lavarenne in Margherita D'Anjou (Meyerbeer)
Trajano in Trajano in Dacia (Nicolini)
Geronte in Emira Regina D'Egitto (Mosca G)
Teseo in Fedra (Mayr)
Sang in premiere of Danaidi (Morlacchi)
Cesare nellie Gallie (Nicolini)
1861 Birth of Boston piano craftsman Alexander STEINERT. Founder of
Steinert Concert Hall. Son of Morris Steinert.
1865 Death of Carlo Negrini Tenor
Born 24 July 1826 Piacenza Died 14 Mar 1865
Debut as Jacopo in I Due Foscari (Verdi) 1847
Teacher :- Angelo Boracchi
Pupil :- Francesco Merli
Created Gabriele Adorno in Simon Baccanegra (Verdi)
Glauco in Ione (Petrella)
Glauco in Morosina (Petrella)
Adel-Muza in L'Ebreo (Apolloni)
Adelchi in Adelchi (Apolloni)
Rienzi in Rienzi (Peri)
Sang in premiere of Virginia (Petrella)
1870 Birth of Reinhold Batz Tenor
Born 14 Mar 1870 Dusseldorf Died 19 Sep 1935
Debut as Max in Freischutz (Weber) 1900
Sang in premiere of Il Cuore delle Fanciulla (Buongiorno)
1871 Birth of Swedish-American soprano Olive FREMSTAD in Stockholm. d-Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 21 APR 1951. Debut as Azucena in Trovatore (Verdi) 21 May 1895
Teachers:- E F Bristol, Lilli Lehmann
Created Iolanthe in Wald (Smyth)
1871 Birth of Vladimir Kastorsky Bass
Born 14 Mar 1871 Moscow Died 2 July 1948
Debut 1894
Teachers:- Antonio Cotogni, Stanislaus I.Gabel
Created Dulcimer Player in Invisible City of Kitesh (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Old Man in Servilia (Rimsky-Korsakov)
1875 Birth of Piero Schiavazzi Tenor
Born 14 Mar 1875 Cagliari Died 25 June 1949
Debut as Cenciaiuolo in the premiere of Iris (Mascagni) 1898
Created Mateo in Conchita (Zandonai)
1877 Birth of Paul Reimers Tenor
Born 14 Mar 1877 London Died 14 Apr 1942
Debut as Max in Freischutz (Weber) 1903
Teachers:- Jean Criticos, George Henschel, Spengel
Raimund von Zur Muhlen
Pupil :- Martha Lipton
1886 Birth of Stepan Chodounsky Baritone
Born 14 Mar 1886 Prague 11 Oct 1954
Teacher :- Konrad Wallerstein
1887 Birth of English composer and conductor Sir Laurence COLLINGWOOD.
1893 Birth 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)
1893 Birth of Franco Lo Giudice Tenor
Born 14 Mar 1893 Paterno Died 8 Aug 1990
Debut in Fanciulla del West (Puccini) 1915
Teachers:- Matteo Aderno, Beniamino Carelli, Di Cagno, Luigi Lucenti
Antonio Savastano
Created Gosta Berling in Cavalieri di Ekuba (Zandonai)
Sing in premiere Giuliano (Zandonai)
Dafni (Mule)
1904 Birth of Iris Adami Corradetti Soprano
Born 14 Mar 1904 Milan 21 Jun 1998
Debut as Coralito in Anima Allegra (Vittadini) 25 Nov 1927
Teacher :- Bice Adami
Pupils :- Mara Zampieri, Franca Como, Elio Battaglia
Franco Boscolo, Rosanna Carteri, Rosanna Lippi
Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Rosa Laghezza, Miwako Matsumoto
Alessandro Mantovani, Katia Ricciarelli, Gianni Amato
Antonio Salvadori, Margherita Rinaldi, Katharina Ikonomou
Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Margherita Roberti
Created Lucieta in Campiello (Wolf-Ferrari)
Sang in premiere of Pulce D'Oro (Ghedini)
La Notte di Zoraima (Montemezzi)
Bacco in Toscana (Castelnuovo-Tedesco)
Monte Ivnor (Rocca)
1904 Birth of Ferdinand Burgmann Tenor
Born 14 Mar 1904 Kuttenplan Bohemia Died 30 May 1987
Teachers:- Konrad Wallerstein, Josef von Manowarda
Created Old Man in Peer Gynt (Egk)
Aart in Rembrandt van Rijn (Von Klenau)
1905 Death of Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky Tenor
Born 1838 Kiev Died 14 Mar 1905
Debut 1863
Teacher :- E Repetto
Pupil :- Stanislavsky
Created Grigori in Boris Godounov (Mussorgsky)
Sinodal in Demon (Rubinstein)
Giovanni in Stone Guest (Dargomizhsky)
Vakula in Vakula the Smith (Tchaikovsky)
1908 FP of Maurice Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole at a Colonne Concert in Paris.
1914 Birth of Sari Barabas Soprano
Born 14 Mar 1914 Hungary
Debut as Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1939
Teacher:- Frau Speckler
1915 Birth of Josef Pollak Bass-Baritone
Born 14 Mar 1915 Vienna
Teachers:- Oto Iro, Hans Frolich, Hermann Jadlowker
1918 Death of Russian composer and music critic Cesar Cui at age 83. He urged many of his composer friends to ignore European influences and write music with a distinctly Russian sound.
1929 Feodor Chaliapin gave his final performance in Boris
Godunov, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1934 Birth of Carl Allen Schultz Bass-Baritone
Born 14 Mar 1934 Los Angeles
Teachers:- Walter Ducloux, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Fritz Schaetzler
Sang in premiere of Incidents at Emergency Landing (Blacher)
1938 Conductor Bruno Walter resigns as conductor of the Vienna Opera after
Nazi's take Austria. Forced to leave country with property confisgated.
1941 Birth of Rachel Mathes Soprano
Born 14 Mar 1941 Atlanta
Debut as Aida in Aida (Verdi) 1965
Teachers:- Edith Boroschek, Marie Wagner
Created Pentheus's Mother in Pentheus (Valdambrini)
Sang in premiere of Marchen vo der schonen Lilie (Klebe)
1954 Birth of Welsh baritone Philip JOLL in Merthyr Tydfil. Debut as Bonze in Madama Butterfly (Puccini) 1978
Teachers:- Frederic Cox, Reginald Goodall, Hans Hotter, Nicholas Powell.
1954 Death of Zdenka Fassbender Soprano
Born 12 Dec 1879 Decin Czechoslovakia Died 14 Mar 1954
Debut as Rachel in Juive (Halevy) 1899
Teacher :- Sophie Lowe-Destinn
Created Ilsebill in Ilsebill (Klose)
1963 FP of Robert Simpson's Symphony No. 3, in Birmingham, England.
1966 Death of Dennis Noble Baritone
Born 25 Sep 1899 Bristol Died 14 Mar 1966
Debut as Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1923
Teacher :- Dinh Gilly
Pupil :- Margaret Norden
Created Sam Weller in Pickwick (Coates)
Sweyne in Serf (Lloyd)
Sang in premiere of Judith (Goossens)
Leper's Flute (Bryson)
Trevallion (Philips)
Don Juan de Manara (Goossen)
1967 Birth of Argentinian conductor and composer Alejandro RUTTY.
1969 Death of Mercedes Capsir Soprano
Born 20 July 1895 Barcelona Died 14 Mar 1969
Debut as Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1914
Teacher :- Bidai Neunei
Pupil :- Juan Oncina
Sang in premiere of Re (Leoncavallo)
1972 Birth of American composer and violinist Keeril MAKAN.
1975 FP of Ulysses Kay's Quintet Concerto for five brass solists and orchestra
in New York.
1976 FP of Paul Creston's Hyas Illahee for chorus and orchestra, in Shreveport, LA.
1977 Death of Julius Katona Tenor
Born 17 Jan 1902 Berlin Died 14 Mar 1977
Debut as Figaro in Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) 1930
Teachers:- Gertrude Foerstel, Josef von Manowarda,
Julius von Raatz-Brockmann
Sang in premiere of Marina (Dostal)
1986 FP of Harrison Birtwistle's Earth Dances for orchestra. Peter Eotvos conducting the BBC Symphony, at Royal Festival Hall in London.
2001 FP of Richard Danielpour's Cello Concerto No. 2 Through the Ancient Valley at Lincoln Center, by soloist Yo-Yo Ma with the New York Philharmonic;
2002 FP of Andre Previn's Violin Concerto, commissioned by the Boston Symphony for soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter, with her future husband, Previn, conducting.
2003 FP of Jim Mobberley's Vox Inhumana for live and prerecorded sounds. NewEar ensemble in Kansas City, MO.
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