MAY 15

Maria Theresia von Paradis

1501 First imprint of musical composition printed. Ottaviano del Petrucci's Harmonice musices odhecaton A.

1567 (14th?)Birth of Italian composer Claudio MONTEVERDI at Cremona. d-Venice, 29 NOV 1643.

1728 Marriage of Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti, 42, to Maria Catarina Gentili, 16. At the church of San Panerazio in Rome.

1754 Birth of composer Pierre Dutillieu

1759 Birth of composer Maria Theresia von Paradis

1764 Birth of composer Johann Nepomuk Kalcher

1778 Birth of English organist, conductor and composer Benjamin JACOB in London. d-London, 24 AUG 1829.

1807 Birth of composer Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata

1808 Birth of composer Gottfried Herrmann

1808 Birth of Irish singer, violinist and composer of light operas Michael William BALFE in Dublin. d-Rowney Abbey, Hertfordshire, 20 OCT 1870.

1813 Birth of Hungarian pianist, teacher and composer Stephen HELLER in Pest. d-Paris, 14 JAN 1888.

1832 Death of German composer Karl Friedrich Zelter in Berlin. b-Berlin, 11 DEC 1758.

1841 Birth of composer Giovanni Bolzoni

1858 Opening of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London with a production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. Third opening following a fire in March 1856.

1873 Birth of composer Nikolay N Tcherepnin, in St Petersburg

1878 Birth of composer Francisco Pujol

1883 Birth of composer Stanley Robert Marchant

1893 Birth of composer Michel GUSIKOFF. d-1978.

1897 Birth of composer George PERLMAN. d-2000.

1907 Birth of composer Josef ALEXANDER. d-1990.

1908 Birth of Swedish composer Lars-Erik LARSSON, in Akarp. d- Hälsingborg, 27 DEC 1986.

1909 Birth of composer Rodolfo Cornejo

1912 Birth of American composer Arthur BERGER.

1913 FP of Claude Debussy's ballet Jeux 'Games'. Ballet Russe, Pierre Monteux conducting at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.

1914 Birth of composer Pierre Froidebise

1920 FP of Stravinsky's Pulcinella. By Ballet Russe in Paris.

1923 Birth of English arranger and conductor John LANCHBERY in London. d-Melbourne, Australia, 27 FEB 2003.

1925 Birth of American experimental composer Emmanuel GHENT. d-2003.

1925 Birth of Russian composer Andrei ESHPAI.

1926 Birth of composer Clermont Pepin

1936 Birth of composer Jean Balissat

1938 Birth of English modern music composer Dick HIGGINS. d-1998.

1939 FP of Douglas Moore's opera The Devil and Daniel Webster in NYC.

1941 Birth of American composer and pianist Richard WILSON in Cleveland, OH.

1948 Birth of Scottish composer Tommy FOWLER in Aberdeen.

1948 (12th?) Birth of German Mezzo-Soprano Doris SOFFEL.

1949 FP of Paul Hindemith's Concerto for Four Winds, Harp and Orch. In NYC.

1949 FP of Randall Thompson's Sym. No. 3. At McMillan Theater, Columbia University, NYC. Thor Johnson conducting the Columbia Symphony Orch.

1952 Death of Italian composer Italo Montemezzi in Vigasio at age 76. b-Vigasio, 31 MAY 1875.

1953 Birth of American composer Cort LIPPE.

1958 FP of John Cage's Piano Concerto, in NYC.

1960 FP of Dimitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7. Beethoven Quartet, in Leningrad.

1972 FP of Rochberg's String Quartet No. 3. Concord Quartet at Tully Hall in NYC.

1992 FP of Stephen Paulus' Air on Seurat 'The Grand Canal' for cello and piano, at the National Cello Competition at Arizona State University in Phoeniz, AZ.

1993 FP of Steve Reich's opera The Cave at the Wiener Festspielhaus in Vienna.