• 1517 Death of Belgian composer Heinrich Isaac in Florence Italy. b-Flanders, 1450.
• 1566 Death of Spanish composer and organist Antonio de Cabezón, at age 56, in Madrid. b-1510.
• 1657 Death of Dutch composer Jacob van Eyck. b-c.1590.
• 1723 On a Good Friday, J. S. Bach conducts the FP of his St. John Passion, at the Thomaskirche, Leipzig.
  
• 1731 FP of G. F. Handel's opera Acis and Galatea in London.
• 1735 FP of Handel's Organ Concerto Op. 4, no. 5. It was an intermission feature during a revival performance of his oratorio Deborah at the Covent Garden Theater, in London. [Julian calendar, Gregorian date is 6 APR]
• 1811 Beethoven finishes his Archduke Trio Op 97
  
• 1826 (?) Birth of German mezzo-soprano and singing teacher Mathilde MARCHESI. (Calve, Eames, Gerster, Garden and Melba her famous students). d- London, 17 NOV 1913
  
• 1827 Death of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna at age 56. b-16 DEC 1770. Read: Beethoven THE BIOGRAPHY.
  
• 1827 FP of Rossini's opera Moses in Egypt in French at the Paris Opéra.
  
• 1828 FP of Franz Schubert's Eb trio, Op 100 at a sucessful concert of his own works in Vienna.
  
• 1830 Birth of American ballad composer John Rogers THOMAS. d-1896.
• 1859 Birth of Russian composer Nikolai Alexandrovich SOKOLOV who taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. d- Petrograd, 27 MA 1922.
  
• 1882 Birth of French contralto Jeanne GERVILLE-REACHE. See photo. d- NYC, 5 JAN 1915
  
• 1884 Birth of German born, Swiss pianist Wilhelm BACKHAUS. d-5 JUL 1969.
  
• 1885 The new building of the Leipzig Gewandhaus opens.
  
• 1894 Birth of Roumanian soprano Viorica URSULEAC. d-22 OCT 1985.
  
• 1900 Birth of Russian-American song and hymn composer Isadore FREED. Freed was born in Russia but raised and trained in the USAmerica. d-1960.
• 1904 Birth of German composer Hermann SCHRöDER in Bernkastel (Mosel).
• 1905 Birth of Belgian born, French conductor Andre CLUYTENS. d- Near Paris, 3 JUN 1967.
  
• 1907 Birth of American film composer Leigh HARLINE in Salt Lake City, UT. d-1969. Score credits.
• 1916 Birth of English conductor and composer Harry RABINOWITZ.
  
• 1918 Death of Russian composer Cesar Cui at age 83, in Petrograd. b-Vilnius, 18 JAN 1835.
• 1923 Birth of American bandmaster and composer James Clifton WILLIAMS in Traskwood, Arkansas. d- 12 FEB 1976.
  
• 1925 Birth of French composer and conductor Pierre BOULEZ in Montbrison.
  
• 1925 Birth of Chilean-American composer Claudio SPIES. Taught music theory, composition, and performance at Princeton University from 1970.
• 1938 FP of Howard Hanson's Third Symphony.
  
• 1943 FP of William Schuman's cantata A Free Song based on a Walt Whitman poem, in Boston. Won Pulitzer Prize.(Whitman died on this day in 1892 in Camden, NJ).
  
• 1948 Birth of Korean violinist Kyung WHA-CHUNG in Seoul.
  
• 1948 Composer Hanns Eisler deported from USA because of his links to communists.
  
• 1958 FP of Henry Cowell's Ongaku a symphonic suite on Japanese themes, by the Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney conducting.
• 1958 FP of Witold Lutoslawski's Marche Funèbre memory of Béla Bartók, in Katowice, Poland.
• 1960 FP of Ralph Shapey's Evocation for violin, piano and percussion, in NYC.
• 1965 Death of Belgian composer Emiel Hullebroeck. b-20 FEB 1878.
• 1966 Birth of American composer Laurence BITENSKY.
• 1970 Birth of composer Hsin-Jung Tsai.
• 1977 Death of British composer, pianist and actress Madeleine Dring, at age 53, in Streatham, London.
• 1984 FP of Philip Glass' Act V The Rome Section, from The CIVIL warS. Conducted by Marcello Panni at the Rome Opera.
• 1998 FP of E. T. Zwilich's Violin Concerto. Orchestra of St. Luke's, Hugh Wolff conducting, with Pamela Frank, at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
• 2000 Classical composer John Corigliano (KOR eh LEE AH noh) wins academy award for his score for the film The Red Violin.
  
• 2001 FP of John Corigliano's Mannheim Rocket in Mannheim. Mannheim National Theater Orchestra.

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