classical music JULY 6

Franz Anton Maichelbeck

1580 Birth of German cantor and kapellmeister Johann Stobaeus in Graudenz. d-Konigsberg 11 SEP 1646.

1632 Birth of composer Albert Schop

1632 Birth of composer Pietro Reggio

1678 Birth of composer Nicola Francesco Haym

1702 Birth of composer Franz Anton Maichelbeck

1739 Birth of German organist Friedrich Rust in Woorlitz. d-Dessau, 28 FEB 1796.

1747 Birth of composer Coelestin Jungbauer

1773 Birth of composer Wenzel Thomas Matiegka

1800 Birth of composer Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti

1837 Birth of composer Wlasyslaw Zelenski

1851 Birth of composer Carl Lorens

1852 Birth of composer John Albert Delany

1864 Birth of Brazilian composer Alberto Nepomuceno, in Fortaleza. d-Rio de Janero, 16 OCT 1920.

1865 Birth of French-Austrian composer and teacher Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Vienna. d-Geneva, 1 JUL 1950

1877 Birth of composer David Stanley Smith

1898 Birth of German composer Hans Eisler, in Leipzig

1902 Death of Brazilian conductor Leopoldo Americo Miguez in Rio de Janero. b-Rio de Janero, 9 SEP 1850.

1906 Birth of English composer Dame Elizabeth Lutyens, in London

1908 Birth of composer Leonce Grass, Flemish singer and conductor

1913 Grand Prix de Rome music award is given to 19 year-old French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), the first woman to be so honored in Paris.

1914 Birth of composer Jens Rohiner

1915 Death of French pianist and organist Paul Etienne Wachs in St Mande. b-Paris, 19 SEP 1851.

1915 Birth of American soprano Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair NJ

1915 Birth of composer Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist

1917 Birth of composer Hugo Cole

1918 Birth of Ameerican pianist Eugene List, in Phila PA. Was prof (Eastman School of Music)

1919 Birth of American soprano Dorothy Kirsten 

1919 Birth of Swiss tenor Earnest Haefliger

1927 Birth of composer Charles Whittenberg

1929 Birth of composer Gerd Zacher

1937 Birth of Russian pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy

1952 Birth of composer Stephen Hartke

1963 FP of Leslie Bassett's "Variations for Orchestra," in Rome; Following the American premiere on October 22, 1965 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, this work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1966

1968 FP of David Del Tredici's "Syzygy" (to a text by James Joyce), in New York City

1973 Death of German conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, age 88, in Zürich. b-Breslau, 14 MAY 1885.

1977 FP of Sir Michael Tippett's opera, "The Ice Break" at Covent Garden in London

1979 Birth of composer Jeremy Spindler

1986 FP of Aribert Reimann's "Troades", in Munich, Germany.

1987 FP of Henri Pousseur's "Un Jardin de Passacaille", in Montpellier, France.

1991 FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Ubu Rex", in Munich, Germany.

1999 Death of Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, age 97, in Madrid

2000 Death of composer Ludovit Rajter. b-30 JUL 1906.