1814 Birth of Caroline Grunbaum Soprano
Born 18 Mar 1814 Prague Died 26 May 1868
Debut Emmeline in Schweizerfamilie (Weigl)
Teacher :- Therese Grunbaum (mother)
Created Anna in Hans Heiling (Marschner)
1818 Birth of Maria Nau Soprano
Born 18 Mar 1818 New York Died Feb 1891
Debut as Urbano in premiere of Huguenots (Meyerbeer) 1 Mar 1836
Teacher:- Laure Cinti-Damoreau
Created Denise in Reve d'Amour (Auber)
Sang in premiere of Drapier (Halevy)
Marie Stuart (Niedermeyer)
Le Lacs des Fees (Auber)
La Bouquetieres (Adam)
1831 Birth of Jose Dupuis Tenor
Born 18 Mar 1831 Liege Died May 1900
Created Paris in Belle Helene (Offenbach)
Piquillo in Perichole (Offenbach)
Fritz in Grande-Duchesse de Geroldstein (Offenbach)
Falsacappa in Brigands (Offenbach)
Bluebeard in Barbe-Bleue (Offenbach)
Frimousse in Petit Duc (Lecocq)
Sang in premiere of Beau Dunois (Lecocq)
Grand Casimer (Lecocq)
. Veuve de Malabar (Herve)
Roussotte (Herve)
1844 Birth of Russian composer Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV in Tikhvin. d-nr St. Petersburg, 21
JUN 1908.
1850 Birth of Josef Staudigl Baritone
Born 18 Mar 1850 Vienna Died 21 Apl 1916
Teacher :- Viktor Rokitansky, Franz Krenn
Pupils :- Thomas Ainsley Cook, Carl Nebe
1876 Liva Edstrom-Jarnefelt Mezzo-Soprano
Born 18 Mar 1876 Vanersborg Died 24 Jun 1971
Debut as Lady in Zauberflote 1897
Teachers:- Gilles Bratt, Effort, Re Koster, August Iffert
Pupils :- Anne Edstrom, Brita Ewert
Sang in premiere of Ran (Peterson-Berger)
1881 Birth of French composer and music critic Paul le FLEM in Paris. d-
31 JUL 1984.
1882 Birth of Italian composer Gian Francesco MALIPIERO in Venice. He was the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero (1824–87) and the uncle of Riccardo Malipiero. GFM transcribed early Italian music and wrote books on Vivaldi. Distroyed most
of his early works and composed until his death. d-1 AUG 1973.
1882 Birth of American ragtime composer Frank Hoyt LOSEY in Rochester, NY. d- Erie, PA 1931.
1884 Birth of Dutch-American violinist, composer and conductor Willem Van HOOGSTRATEN. d-11 SEP
1965.
1884 Death of Anne Bishop Soprano
Born 9 Jan 1810 London Died 18 Mar 1884
Debut 1831
Teacher :- Henry Bishop (later husband)
Created Rosalie in Vascello di Gama (Mercadante)
1886 Birth of German tenor Rudolf LAUBENTHAL in Dusseldorf Died 2 Oct 1971
Teacher :- Lilli Lehmann
Pupil :- Horst Laubenthal (adopted son)
1887 Birth of American composer Clara EDWARDS. d-1974.
1888 Birth of Louis Graveure Tenor
Born 18 Mar 1888 London Died 12 Apr 1968
Debut in Lilac Domino (Cuvillier) 1914
1889 Birth of Russian-American pianist Alexander BOROVSKY in Latvia. d-Waban, MA 1968. Studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Came to the US in 1941, appeared regularly in public and made many recordings.
1898 Birth of Ofelia Nieto Soprano
Born 18 Mar 1898 Santiago di Compostela Died 21 May 1931
Debut in premiere of Maruxa (Vives) 1914
Teacher :- Lorenzo Simonetti
Created Matilde in Esclava (Mauri)
Sang in premiere of El Avapies (Del Campo)
Caminante (Sanchez de Fuentes Eduardo)
La Dolores (Breton)
1899 Birth of Bulgarian song composer Pantcho VLADIGEROV. (Baker's
Dictionary states he was born in Zurich, March 13, 1899, 16 hours following
the birth of his non-identical twin brother, Lubin, who became a violinist)
d- Sofia, 8 SEP 1978.
1902 FP of Arnold Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht for string sextet in Vienna.
1902 In a Milan hotel room, Enrico Caruso makes first operable classical
recording. He recorded ten arias for The Grammophone Company and was
paid $5000.
1904 FP of Anatole Liadov's symphonic poem Baba Yaga in St. Petersburg. (Old calendar: 5 MAR)
1905 Birth of American pianist, Ives cataloger-editor and teacher John KIRKPATRICK in
NYC. d-Ithaca,
NY, 1991. He devoted nearly 10 years to mastering the complexities
of the Ives Concord Sonata with Ives. (Not to be confused with English musician John Kirkpatrick.
1910 First opera by an American composer performed at the MET in NYC.
Frederick Shepherd Converse's The Pipe of Desire.
1923 FP of Anton Bruckner's Sym in f in Klosternenberg, Germany.
1926 Birth of Jean Christoph Benoit Baritone
Born 18 Mar 1925 Strasbourg
Debut as Guglielmo in Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart) 1952
Teacher :- Gabriel Dubois
Created Impresario in Eurydice (Damase)
Sbrigani in Monsieur de Pourceangnac (Martin)
Sang in premiere of Caprices de Marianne (Sauguet)
Comme il vous Plaira (Hasquenoph)
Madame De (Damase)
Lavinia (Barraud)
Princesse Pauline (Tomasi)
La Passion de Gilles (Boesmans)
1927 FP of Serge Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1. Composer was soloist with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia
Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
1929 Birth of John Macurdy Bass
Born 18 Mar 1929 Detroit Mich
Debut as Hebrew in Samson et Delilah (Saint-Saens) 1962
Teachers:- Avery Crew, Boris Goldovsky, Thelma Votipka
Created Agrippa in Antony & Cleopatra (Barber)
Basso Cantante in 6 Characters in Search for Author (Weisgall)
Ezra Mannon in Mourning becomes Electra (Levy)
Sang in premiere of Wuthering Heights (Floyd)
1929 Birth of Lotte Rysanek Soprano
Born 18 Mar 1929
Teacher :- Rudolf Grossmann
Sang in premiere of Hochzeit am Bodensee (Stoltz)
1930 Birth of American conductor Maurice PERESS in NYC. (Kansas City Sym
1974-80).
1933 Birth of Edward Allen Baird Bass-Baritone
Born 18 Mar 1933 Kansas City
Debut as Grenvil in Traviata (Verdi) 1963
Teachers:- Hardin van Deurson, Chase Baromeo, Ralph Herbert, Joseph Blatt
Boris Goldovsky
Sang in premiere of The Shepherdess & the Chimney Sweep (Smith)
Created Obadiah & Esau in The Samuel Wrestler (Adler)
1934 Birth of Enriquette Tarres Soprano
Born 18 Mar 1934 Barcelona
Debut as Leonora in Trovatore (Verdi) 1956
Created Ester in Spleen (Benguerel)
Sang in premiere of Madchen aus Domrery (Klebe)
Edipo y Jocasta (Soler)
1940 Death of Lola Beeth Soprano
Born 23 Nov 1860 Cracau Died 18 Mar 1940
Debut as Elsa in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1882
Teachers:- Desiree Artot de Padilla, Rosa De Ruda, Louise Dustmann
Francesco Lamperti, Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Pupils :- Kathe Heidersback, Ursula van Dieman
Sang in premiere of Donna Diana (Hoffmann)
Der Vasall von Szigeth (Smareglia)
1961 Birth of Polish composer Hanna KULENTY in Biaystok, Poland.
1961 Death of Mizzi Gunther Soprano
Born 8 Feb 1879 Warnsdorf Bohemia Died 18 Mar 1961
Debut 1897
Created Hanna Glawari in Merry Widow (Lehar)
Sang in premier of Dollarprinzessin (Fall)
Kleine Konig (Kalman)
Reiter der Kaiserin (Pepock)
Schatzmeister (Ziehrer)
Das Susse Madel (Reinhardt)
Das Furstenkind (Lehar)
Gottergatte (Lehar)
Eva (Lehar)
Die Ideale Gattin (Lehar)
1967 Death of Hedy Gura Mezzo-Soprano
Born 1893 Munich Died 18 Mar 1967
Sang in premiere of Die Heirat (Martinu)
1970 Death of Giordano Paltrinieri Tenor
Born 1890 Died 18 Mar 1970
Created Dall-Occhio in Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)
Sang in premiere of L'Ombre di Giovanni (Alfano)
1970 FP of Roger Sessions' Rhapsody for orchestra, in Baltimore.
1972 Death of Gunther Ambrosius Baritone
Born 11 Dec 1910 Hildesheim Died 18 Mar 1972
Teacher :- Julius van Raatz-Brockmann
Sang in premiere of Kluge (Orff)
1973 Death of Lauritz Melchior Tenor
Born 20 Mar 1890 Copenhagen Died 18 Mar 1973
Debut as Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 2 Apr 1913
Teachers:- Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Paul Bang, Victor Beigel,
Ernst Grenzebach, Vilhelm Herold
Pupil :- William Cochran
1994 Death of American composer William Bergsma at age 72, in Seattle.
2004 FP of Augusta Read Thomas´ Tangle. Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Robertson, in Chicago, IL.
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