1697 Death of German composer and organist Nicolaus Bruhns at age 32, in Husum.
1716 Antonio Vivaldi looses job at Pieta because he spends too much time on operas.
1719 Birth of English music critic and writer Sir John HAWKINS who wrote the
first history of music.
1725 Birth of composer Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik STALDER.
1795 First concert appearance by Beethoven, at the Vienna Burgtheater,
introducing his first Piano Concerto actually Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb with the composer as soloist. The concerto was written and premiered before his Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, which was published first.
1806 FP of Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3. This was part of the second, or revised version, of the opera Fidelio at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
1827 Beethoven's funeral in Vienna attended by Schubert, Hummel, Czerny
and Kreutzer and other musical luminaries.
1836 FP of Richard Wagner's opera Das Liebesverbot 'The Ban on Love' at the Stadttheater in Magdeburg. Based on Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure.
1882 FP of the first symphony of 16 year old composer Alexander Glazunov in St. Petersburg. Mili Balakirev conducting. [Julian calendar, Gregorian 17 MAR].
1888 Death of French composer Charles-Henri Alkan, age 75, in Paris. b-30 NOV 1813.
1890 Birth of Polish bass Robert BURG [Bart] in Prague. d-Dresden, 9 FEB 1946.
1892 FP of 1st mm of S. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1. Vasily Safanov conducting, the composer was soloist, in Moscow. [Julian calendar, Gregorian 17 MAR].
1897 Birth of German tenor Fritz GöLLNITZ. d-Hamburg, 14 MAY 1965. Début (1930).
1900 Birth of French bass-bariton Bernard Henri ETCHEVERRY in Bordeaux. d-Paris, 14 NOV 1960.
1900 In Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, Fritz Scheel conducts a
concert with musicians who were to become The Fabulous
Philidelphians of
The Philadelphia Orchestra.
1962 Birth of Swedish bass Urban MALMBERG in Stockholm.
1964 Birth of Greek guitarist and composer Apostolos PARASKEVAS in Volos, Greece.
1974 Birth of American composer Tom SCHNELLER. Cornell University
graduate student and founding member of Tabula Rasa.
1982 Death of german composer and teacher Carl Orff. b-10 JUL 1895.
2000 FP of Bright Sheng's String Quartet No. 4. Shanghai String Quartet, in Richmond VA.
2001 Death of American jazz and classical (Bach) pianist and composer John Lewis in NYC at age 80. (Modern Jazz Quartet)
2003 FP of Augusta Reed Thomas' Canticle Weaving for trombone and orchestra. Ralph Sauer, trombone. Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond. in LA, CA.
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