1782 Death of Joseph Vernon
Born 1737 Coventry Died 19 Mar 1782
Debut as Puck in Queen Mab (Burney)
Teacher :- William Savage
Created Leander in Padlock (Dibdin)
Thyrsis in Shepherd's Lottery (Boyce)
Sang in premiere of Almena (Battishill / Arne M)
Pharnaces (Bates)
Midas (O'Hara)
1799 FP of Haydn's The Creation in Vienna.
[Click on link to hear an audio clip. To listen to samples you'll need a Windows Media Player.] Haydn: The Creation
1813 Birth of German hymn composer Matthias KELLER in Ulm Germany.
1835 Birth of Franz Betz Bass-Baritone
Born 19 Mar 1835 Mainz Died 12 Aug 1900
Deb Heinrich in Lohengrin (Wagner) 1856
Pupil :- Johannes Bischoff
Created Hans Sachs in Meistersingers (Wagner)
Judah in Maccabees (Rubinstein)
Wotan in Siegfried (Wagner)
Sang in premiere of Der Stern von Turan (Wuerst)
Frithjof (Hopffner)
Hermione (Bruch)
Cesario (Taubert)
Ekkehard (Abert)
Genesius (Weingartner)
1855 Birth of Giuseppini Pasqua Soprano later Mezzo-Soprano
Born 19 Mar 1855 Perugia Died 24 Feb 1930
Debut as Oscar in Ballo in Maschera (Verdi)
Teacher :- Marietta Piccolomini, Corticelli, Luigia Abbadia
Created Madame Quickly in Falstaff (Verdi)
1859 FP of Charles Gounod's Faust at Theatre Lyrique in
Paris.
1865 Birth of Vilhelm Herold Tenor
Born 19 Mar 1865 Hasle Died 15 Dec 1937
Debut as Faust in Faust(Gounod) 1 Feb 1893
Teachers:- George Allen, Devellier, Leopold Rosenfeld, Giovanni Sbriglia
Jerndorf
Pupils :- Lauritz Melchior, Einar Norby, Edith Oldrup, Erik Sjoberg
Created David in Saul og David (Nielson)
Stig Hvide in Ragnhild (Hartmann E)
Vifandaka in Vifandaka (Tofft)
1867 Birth of Thomas Salignac Tenor
Born 19 Mar 1867 Generac Nimes Died 1945
Teacher :- Edmond Duvernoy
Pupils :- Charles Kullman, Marcel Marcel-Genio, Solange Michel
Created Pedro in Retablo de Maese Pedro (De Falla)
Martin in Chemineau (Leroux)
Sang in premiere of Brebis Egaree (Milhaud)
Habanera (Laparra)
La Jota (Laparra)
Les Pecheurs de Saint-Jean (Widor)
La Brebis egaree (Milhaud)
1870 FP of Brazilian composer Carlos Antonio Gomes'
opera Il Guarany at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
1872 Birth of Russian ballet master Sergei DIAGHILEV in Novgorod.
d-Venice, 19 AUG 1929.
1873 Birth of German composer, pianist and organist Max REGER in
Bavaria. d-Leipzig, 11 MAY 1916.
1874 Birth of Johannes Bischoff Baritone
Born 19 Mar 1874 Berlin Died 10 Oct 1936
Debut as Dutchman in Flying Dutchman (Wagner) 1899
Teachers:- Franz Betz, Mathilde Mallinger, H Weinberg
Sang in premiere of Poia (Nevin)
Sonnenflammen (S Wagner)
Ritter Blaubert (von Reznicek)
Scirocco (D'Albert)
Tuttifantchen (Hindemith)
Sior Todero Brontolon (Malipiero)
1883 FP of Mily Balakirev's symphonic poem Tamara composer conducting in St. Petersburg.
1898 Birth of Armando Borgioli Baritone
Born 19 Mar 1898 Florence Died 20 Jan 1945
Sang in premiere of Maddalena (Michetti)
1900 Birth of Jaroslav Gleich Tenor
Born 19 Mar 1900 Hodonin Moravia
Debut as Prince in Turandot (Puccini) 4 Sep 1927
Teachers:- Hilbert Vavra, Egon Fuchs, Otakar Ostrcil
Sang in premiere of Julietta (Martinu)
1910 FP of Bela Bartók's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7. Waldbauer Quartet in Budapest.
1911 Birth of Erich Witte Tenor
Born 19 Mar 1911 Bremen
Debut as Nando in Tiefland (D'Albert) 1930
Teacher :- Philipp Kraus
Created Shepherd in Alcestiad (Talma)
Sang in premiere of Der Dombaumeister (Steiber)
1913 FP in America of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov by The MET in NYC.
1915 Birth of English mezzo-soprano Nancy EVANS in Liverpool Died 20 Aug 2000
Debut as Nightingale in Rose of Persia (Sullivan) 1938
Teachers:- Maggie Teyte, John Tobin, Eva De Reusz
Pupil :- Beverley Mills
Created Nancy in Albert Herring (Britten)
Poet in Growing Castle (Williamson)
1915 FP of John Alden Carpenter's Adventures in a
Perambulator. Stock conducting Chicago Sym Orch.
1917 Birth of Romanian pianist Dinu LIPATTI. d-Geneva, 2 DEC 1950.
1921 Birth of Robert McFerrin Baritone
Born 19 Mar 1921 Arkansas
Debut in Lost in the Stars (Weill)
Teacher :- Boris Goldovsky
Created Popaloi in Troubled Island (Still)
1923 Birth of Ferenc Szalma Bass-Baritone
Born 19 Mar 1923 Hungary
Debut as Commendatore in Don Giovanni (Mozart) 1954
Teachers:- Bruno Kazametz, Anna Renye, Pal Verga
1924 FP of Howard Hanson's Nordic Symphony
Hanson conducting Rochester Philharmonic.
1926 Death of Friedrich Brodersen Baritone
Born 1 Dec 1873 Bad Boll Died 19 Mar 1926
Debut 1900
Teacher :- Heinrich Bertram
Created Pantalone in Le Donne Curiose (Wolf-Ferrari)
Gil in Il Segreto di Sausanna (Wolf-Ferrari)
Simone in Violante (Korngold)
Morone in Palestrina (Pfitzner)
Sang in premiere of Das Vaterunser (Rohr)
Sulamith (von Klenau)
Die Vogel (Braunfals)
1928 Birth of Royal Academy of Music educator Sir David LUMSDEN. Choirmaster, organist and harpsichordist, Sir David was Principal of the Academy from 1982 to 1993.
1929 Birth of American composer Robert MUCZYNSKI in Chicago.
Composer-in-residence and Professor Emeritus, School of Music, Retired, at The
University of Arizona, Tucson.
1930 Birth of Boris Shtokolov Baritone
Born 19 Mar 1930 Kuznetsk
Debut in Russalka (Dargomizhsky) 1954
Created Tony Wilson in Dangerous Journey (Manevich)
Andrei Sokolov in Fate of a Man (Dzerzhinsky)
1930 Birth of English pianist, composer and property developer Sir Ernest HALL.
1931 FP of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck in America, in
Philadelphia under
Leopold Stokowski. Followed criticism at premiere in Berlin.
[Click on or link to hear an audio clip.] Berg: Wozzeck
1939 Birth of Hermann Becht Baritone
Born 19 Mar 1939 Karlsruhe
Teachers:- E Wolf-Dengel, Josef Greindl
Sang in premiere of Ubu Rex (Penderecki)
Luo Salome (Sinopoli)
Belshazar (Kirchner)
Sansibar (Mayer)
Gezeichneten (Schreker)
1944 Birth of Eugenia Moldoveanu Soprano
Born 19 Mar 1944 Rumania
Debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Teachers:- Ciprian Porumbescu, Arta Florescu
1944 FP of Sir Michael Tippett's oratorio, A Child of Our Time in London.
1968 Death of Viktor Madin Baritone
Born 20 Dec 1876 Lugoz Rumania Died 19 Mar 1968
Debut as Papageno in Zauberflote (Mozart) 1908
Created One-Eyed in Frau Ohne Schatten (Strauss)
Sang in premiere of Giuditta (Lehar)
1969 Birth of Italian conductor and composer Paolo PESSINA in Milan.
1972 FP of George Perle's Sonata quasi una fantasia for clarinet and piano, in Buffalo, NY.
1991 FP of John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer at the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie, in Brussels.
1998 Death of Anna Kaskas Mezzo-Soprano
Born 4 Jan 1909 Bridgeport Died 19 Mar 1998
Debut as Ulrica in Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) 1930
Teacher :- Enrico Rosati
Pupil :- Sylvia Anderson
1998 FP of Robert X. Rodriguez' Sinfonia a la Mariachi by the San Antonio Symphony, Christopher Wilkins conducting.
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