MARCH 9

1706 Burial of German composer Johann Pachelbel, age 52, in Nuremberg.

1735 Birth of composer August Bernhard Valentin Herbing.

1737 Birth of Bohemian composer Josef Mysliveček, in Ober-Sarka. Friend and colleague of Mozart.

1748 FP of Handel's oratorio Joshua at the Covent Garden, London. It may have included the premiere of Handel's Concerto a due cori No. 1 as well (Gregorian date 20 MAR).

1740 FP of Handel's oratorio L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, and Organ Concerto in Bb, Op. 7, no. 1, in London (Julian date: 27 FEB)

1810 Birth of composer Jean-Georges Kastner.

1812 Birth of composrer Jakob Eduard Schmolzer.

1826 Birth of German violinist and composer Jean Joseph Bott.

1831 Paris debut of Italian violinist Nicolo Paganini. Composers attending were Meyerbeer, Cherubini, Halvéy and Franz Liszt.

1839 Birth of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (Gregorian date: 21 MAR).

1842 FP of Verdi's opera Nabucco in at the Teatro alla Scala, in Milan.

1844 FP of Verdi's opera Ernani in at the Teatro La Fenice, in Venice.

1848 Birth of composer Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick.

1849 FP of Otto Nicolai's opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor basaed on Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Königliches Opernhaus, in Berlin.

1850 Birth of composer Alexandre Luigini.

1868 FP of Thomas' opera Hamlet at the Paris Opéra.

1874 Birth of composer Johann Richard Ohlsson.

1875 Birth of composr Martin Fallas Shaw.

1877 FP of Tchaikovsky's symphonic-fantasy Francesca da Rimini in Moscow (Julian date: 25 FEB)

1893 Birth of composer Hans Munch.

1907 Birth of composer Henry Leland CLARKE.

1908 Birth of composer Luiz Cosme.

1910 Birth of American composer Samuel Barber,  in West Chester, Pa. d- January 23, 1981.

1911 Birth of composer Ramon Campbell Batista.

1924 Birth of composer Konstantin Iliev .

1924 FP of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 5, first version, in Paris, by the composer. The revised version premiered in Alma-Ata, USSR on 5 FEB 1954, by Anatoli Vedernikov.

1926 Birth of composer Celso Garrido Lecca.

1927 Birth of composer John Beckwith. 

1927 Birth of composer Hans Ludwig Schilling.

1930 FP of Kurt Weill's opera Die Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, at the Neues Theater in Leipzig.

1933 Birth of composer William Francis McBETH.

1941 FP of Henry Cowell's Symphony No. 2 Antropos, in Brooklyn.

1947 Birth of composer Zusaan Kali FASTEAU.

1949 Birth of composer Kalevi AHO.

1950 Birth of composer Bill ZACCAGNI.

1951 FP of A. Honegger's Symphony No. 5 Di tre re, by the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch conducting.

1980 Birth of composer Anna CLYNE.

1980 FP of Earle Brown's Caldar Piece for percussionists and mobile, in Valencia, CA.

1982 FP of L. Berio's opera La vera storia The True Story at the Teatro alla Scala, in Milan.

1999 Death of composer Harry Somers.