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1737 Birth of Austrian composer Johann Michael HAYDN in Rohrau. Brother of Franz Joseph, friend of Mozart. Concertmaster to the Archbishop of Salzburg. d-Salzburg, 10 AUG 1806. Singspiel: "Rebekka als Braut" (Salzburg, 1766); "Der Traum" (1767); "Die Hochzeit auf der Alm" (Salzburg, 1768); "Die Wahrheit der Natur" (Salzburg, 1769); "Hermann, ein Beyspiel der Liebe zum Vaterlande" (1773); "Der Bassgeiger zu Wörgl" (c.1773-5); "Titus, der standhafte Christ" (Lost, 1774); "Abels Tod" (c.1778); "Der englische Patriot" (c.1779): "Andromeda e Perseo" (Salzburg, .1787); "Die Ährenleserin" (Salzburg, 1788).
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1819 Birth of German pianist, teacher and composer Clara Wieck (Veek) SCHUMANN in Leipzig. m-Robert Schumann. d-Frankfurt-am-Main, 20 MAY 1896...
Pianist Leon Fleisher, actor Steve Martin, singers Diana Ross and Brian Wilson and film director Martin Scorsese will share the 30th annual honors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in December.
Zdenek Macal, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the country's most prestigious, announced to the orchestra members on Saturday that he was leaving the post, Daniel Sobotka, an aide to Czech Philharmonic's director Vaclav Riedlbauch, told CTK today [11 SEP 2007]. ...
1786 Birth of German-Danish pianist and composer Friedrich Daniel Rudolph KUHLAU nr. Hannover. d-Copenhagen, 12 MAR 1832.
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1941 Birth of English conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist Christopher HOGWOOD in Nottingham.
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Antonin Dvorák's biography - his life and works. He is best known for Symphony No.9, 'From the New World,' and his nationalistic outlook of using folk music. Antonin Dvorák, Czech composer with the widest international renown due to his masterpiece Symphony No.9, 'From the New World,' is equally known for incorporating folk music into his classical works by using Bohemian and Slavonic folk songs and dances. Dvorák was born in Nelahozeves, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) on September 8, 1841, more | GOOGLE LINKS | Dvorak at Amazon.com
Legendary Italian conductor Claudio Abbado has announced that he has cancelled planned appearances in New York in October due to ill-health. "Unfortunately I have to resign from my commitments in the near future with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and with the Orchestra Mozart due to health reasons, on my doctor's advice," he said in a statement issued by the Swiss festival.
"I will return to conducting in Bologna in the beginning of November."
Abbado, who had just completed several appearances at the Lucerne Festival in August and September, was due to open the concert season at Carnegie Hall with the festival's orchestra from October 3 to 7.
The 74-year-old former musical director of the Scala of Milan and the Vienna State Opera was treated for cancer in 2000......MORE...
This month, the brilliant Natalie Dessay joins the ranks of Met sopranos who've taken a stab at Donizetti's bel canto thriller, Lucia di Lammermoor. DAVID J. BAKER reports in Opera News
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