1765 Leopold Mozart and his children travel to The Hague. The children get an intestinal typhoid.
1811 (4 JUL?)Birth of French concert pianist and teacher Marie PLEYEL in Paris. m-Camille Pleyel, Austrian piano builder and composer. d-Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels Capital Region of Belgium), 30 MAR 1875. Affair with Berlioz in 1830.
1824(5th?)Birth of Austrian composer and organist Anton Joseph BRUCKNER in Ansfelden. d-Vienna, 11
SEP 1896.
1827 Death of Michael Pamer.
1844 Death of minister-composer Oliver Holden in Charlestown, MA. b-Shirley, MA 18 SEP 1765.
1872 Birth of
Alexander Davidov Tenor
Born 4 Sep 1872 Poltava Died 28 Jun 1944
Debut 1893
Teacher :- Camille Everardi
1876 Birth of Ernesto Badini Baritone
Born 4 Sep 1876 S.Colombano al Lambro Died 6 July 1937
Debut as Figaro in Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) 1895
Teacher :- Cesari
Created Blake in Sly (Wolf-Ferrari)
Sang in premiere of Piccolo Marat (Mascagni)
Cena Delle Beffe (Giordano)
1881 Birth of Erna Denera Soprano
Born 4 Sep 1881 Posnan Died 16 Mar 1938
Debut as Senta in Flying Dutchman (Wagner) 1906
Teachers:- Franz Dulong, Heinrich Feinhals
1881 Birth of American composer Walter Ruel COWLES. d-1959.
1887 Birth of Carl Martin Oehman Tenor / Teacher of Singing
Born 4 Sep 1887 Floda Sweden Died 26 Dec 1967
Debut as Chenier in Andrea Chenier (Giordano) 1914
Teachers:- Gentzel, Giuseppe Oxilia, Quadri
Pupils :- Nicolai Gedda, Carl-Axel Hallgren, Erik Saeden
Uno Stjernqvist, Martti Talvela, Usko Viitanen
1892 Birth of French composer Darius MILHAUD in Aix-en-Provence. d-Geneva, 22 JUN 1974. In USA
from 1940.
1896 Birth of Cyrena Van Gordon Mezzo-Soprano
Born 4 Sep 1896 Camden Ohio Died 4 Apr 1964
Debut as Amneris in Aida (Verdi) 1913
Teacher :- Louise Dotti
1899 Birth of English composer and organist Frederic CURZON in London. d-Bournemouth, 1973.
1903 Death of German conductor Hermann Zumpe in Munich. b-Oppach, 9 APR 1850.
1906 Birth of American critic and musicologist Gilbert CHASE in Havana.
1907(5th)Death of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in Bergen. b-Bergen, 15 JUN 1843.
1921 Birth of Gita De La Fuente Soprano
Born 4 Sep 1921 London
Sang in premiere of Manana (Benjamin)
1934 Birth of Umberto Grilli Tenor
Born 4 Sep 1934 Pavia
Debut as Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1957
Teachers:- Adelaide Saraceni, Giannino Zecca
1937 Death of Vasily Petrov Bass
Born 12 Mar 1875 Alexeyevka Ukraine Died 4 Sep 1937
Debut as Miller in Rusalka (Dargomyzsky) 1902
Teacher :- Bartsal
1937 Death of Stanislav Doubransky Tenor
Born 19 Jun 1867 Kolin Died 4 Sep 1937
Debut as Dalibor in Dalibor (Smetana) 13 Oct 1897
1939 Birth of American pianist Irwin GAGE in Cleveland.
1942 Birth of Canadian composer Brian CHERNEY in Peterborough, Ontario.
1965 Death of Alsatian theologist, missionary, organist and Bach scholar, Albert Schweitzer, in Lambarene, Gabon at the age of 90. b-Kaysersberg, 14 JAN 1875.
1972 Birth of American composer Mickey HELMS in Redwood City, CA.
1991 Death of Carlos Alexander Bass-Baritone
Born 18 Oct 1915 Died 4 Sep 1991
Dwbuy as Masetto in Don Giovanni (Mozart) 1941
Teachers:- Alma Achadow, Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Friedrich Schorr
Lothar Wallerstein
Created Prometheus in Prometheus (Orff)
Maestro in Ameise (Ronnefeld)
1996 FP of Steven Mackey's Lost Found for orchestra. San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
1997 (5th)Death of Hungarian-English conductor Georg Solti age 84, vacationing in Southern France
with his family...just before midnight. b-Budapest, 21 OCT 1912.
1999 FP of Philip Glass' score to accompany the classic 1931 Tod Browning horror film Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. Kronos Quartet at Telluride, CO.
2002 Death of Lituanian born French pianist Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. b- Kaunas, Lithuania 26 MAY 1904. Obituary.
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