classical music JULY 16

 Johann David Heinichen

1725 Birth of composer Georg Simon Lohlein

1728 Birth of composer Henri Moreau

1729 Burial of German composer and lawyer Johann David Heinichen, age 46, in Dresden. b-17 APR 1683.

1763 Death of French flutist and composer Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, age 89, in Paris. b-29 SEP 1674.

1782 FP of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

1822 Birth of composer Luigi Arditi, also a violinist

1834 Birth of composer Carlo Angeloni

1848 Birth of composer Henri VIOTTA. d-17 FEB 1933.

1855 Birth of composer Charles Francis Abdy Williams

1858 Birth of Belgian composer, violinist and conductor Eugène Ysaÿe, in Liège. d-12 MAY 1931.

1863 Birth of Austrian-American pianist Fanny BLOOMFELD-ZEISLER in Bielitz, Austria. d-Chicago, 28 AUG 1927.

1876 Birth of American conductor and pianist Ernest Henry SCHELLING in Belvidere, NJ. d-NYC, 8 DEC 1939.

1901 Birth of Austrian conductor and composer Fritz Mahler, a nephew of Gustav Mahler, in Vienna. He studied composition with Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern; He emigrated to America in 1936, where he taught at the Juilliard Summer School and conducted the Erie Philharmonic and the Hartford Symphony.

1902 Death of German pianist and instructor Heinrich Hoffman in Gross-Tabarz. b-Berlin, 13 JAN 1842.

1904 Birth of Italian composer Goffredo PETRASSI, in Zagarolo, suburban Rome. d-3 MAR 2003.

1917 Death of German pianist and teacher Phillip Scharwenka in Bad Nauheim. b-Samter-Posen, 16 FEB 1847.

1928 Birth of Scottish conductor Bryden THOMSON in Ayr, Scotland. d-Dublin, 14 NOV 1991. Obituary

1928 Birth of pianist Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia

1929 Birth of American composer John Everett WATTS in Maryville, Tennessee.

1929 Birth of composer Carmelo Alonso BERNAOLA. d-5 JUN 2002.

1938 Birth of composer Thorkell Sigurbjornsson

1939 Birth of American composer Fredric MYROW. d- 14 JAN 1999, heart attack at his Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles, California. He was 59.

1941 Birth of English composer Geoffrey Burgon, in Hambleton, Hampshire.

1948 Birth of violinist Pinchas Zukerman, Tel Aviv Israel

1953 Birth of composer Jim SANDE.

1959 Birth of Scottish composer James MacMillan, in Kilwinning, Ayrshire.

1968 Birth of American composer Shafer MAHONEY.

1993 FP of Greetings to WK 89 - The Democratic Orchestra in Östra Hoby, Sweden.

1998 FP of Carol Barnett's Meeting at Seneca Falls for soloists, narrator, and chamber ensemble, Apo Hsu conducting at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis.