September 21 in classical music history

FRANCOEUR

1527 Birth of composer Matthaus Ludecus

1698 Birth of French violinist and composer François FRANCOEUR in Paris. Search Amazon.com for François FRANCOEUR

1706 Birth of composer Jacob Wilhelm Lustig

1728 Birth of composer Louis Emmanuel Eadin

1737 Birth of American composer, writer and statesman Francis HOPKINSON first to use tune from "To Anacreon in Heaven" later adopted as setting for The Star Spangled Banner (See 1836 SMITH Below). d-Philadelphia, 9 MAY 1791.Search Amazon.com for Francis HOPKINSON

• 1760 Birth of composer Gaetano Valeri
• 1795 FP of the revised version of Haydn's Symphony No. 103 The Drumroll conducted by the composer in Vienna. The first version FP 2 MAR 1795 at the King's Theater in London.Search Amazon.com for Haydn's Symphony No. 103
• 1809 Death of composer and conductor Alexander Reinagle in Baltimore.Played for George Washington in Philadelphia.Search Amazon.com for Alexander Reinagle baptismal-Portsmouth, 23 APR 1756.
• 1817 Birth of composer Charles Balmer
• 1832 Birth of composer Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans
• 1833 Birth of composer Josef Richard Rozkosny
• 1836 Death of English organist and composer John Stafford SMITH in London.He composed "To Anacreon in Heaven" the official song of the Anacreontic Society (London amateur musicians). baptismal, Gloucester, 30 MAR 1750.Search Amazon.com for John Stafford SMITH
• 1845 Birth of German virtuoso and composer August WILHELM (Emil Daniel Ferdinand Viktor). Taught violinist Ferdinand David. d-London, 22 JUN 1908.
• 1850 Birth of composer and teacher Frederick Field BULLARD in Boston. d-Boston, 24 JUN 1904.
• 1864 Death of American writer and composer William Henry Fry in Santa Cruz, West Indies. b-Philadelphia, PA 10 AUG 1813.
• 1869 Birth of composer Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski
• 1871 Birth of German tenor Alois BURGSTALLER in Holzkirechen. d-Gmund, 19 APR 1945. MET's Parsifal in 1903.Search Amazon.com for Alois BURGSTALLER
• 1874 Birth of British composer, conductor and teacher Gustav Theodore HOLST in Cheltenham.d-London, 25 MAY 1934.Search Amazon.com for Gustav Theodore HOLST
• 1880 The International Mozart Foundation is established in Salzburg.
• 1882 Birth of composer Alf Thorbald Hurum
• 1885 Birth of composer Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann
• 1885 Tchaikovsky finishes his "Manfred" Symphony. CD-Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
• 1887 Birth of composer Lodewijk de Vocht
• 1893 Birth of composer Moses Pergament
• 1900 Birth of American conductor and pianist Alexander STEINERT in Boston. d-NYC, 7 JUL 1982.
• 1909 Birth of American composer James ADAIR. d-1999.
• 1912 Birth of Hungarian pianist Gyorgy SANDOR in Budapest.Search Amazon.com for Gyorgy SANDOR
• 1913 Birth of American musicologist and author Vincent DUCKLES in Boston. d-Berkeley, CA 1 JUL 1985.

• 1922 Birth of Flemish pianist Lode Backx
• 1925 FP of Rudolph Friml's "The Vagabond King" in New York City. CD-Rudolf Friml: Chansonette
• 1930 Birth of American composer Muhal Richard ABRAHMS.
• 1938 Birth of Japanese composer Yuji TAKAHASHI in Tokyo

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• 1938 Birth of composer Atli Heimir Sveinsson
• 1942 Birth of English soprano Jill Gomez in New Amsterdam, British Guiana.
• 1953 Death of English composer Roger Quilter in London. b-Brighton, 1 NOV 1877.Search Amazon.com for Roger Quilter
• 1955 Birth of Russian pianist Andrei GAVRILOV in Moscow. Tchikovsky prize winner, 1974.Search Amazon.com for Andrei GAVRILOV
• 1957 Birth of Russian soprano Nina RAUTIO .Search Amazon.com for Nina RAUTIO
• 1958 Birth of American composer Lee SABINA.
• 1961 Death of French composer Maurice Delage in Paris. b-Paris, 13 NOV 1879.Search Amazon.com for Maurice Delage
• 1961 (Boosey & Hawkes indicates 22nd) Birth of American composer Michael TORKE in Milwaukee, WI.Search Amazon.com for Michael TORKE
• 1962 Igor Stravinsky returns to Moscow for the first time in 48 years. He also visits Leningrad and Oranienbaum.Search Amazon.com for Igor Stravinsky
• 1966 FP of Havergal Brian's Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia Tragica" in London. Search Amazon.com for Havergal Brian's Symphony No. 6
• 1966 FP of Maliperio's Symphony No. 9 "Hélas" at the Warsaw Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music in Poland.
• 1968 Debut at Metropolitan Opera of soprano Shirley Verrett as Carmen CD-Bizet: Carmen Shirley Verrett, Richard van Allan, et al.
• 1972 FP of Walter Piston's Flute Concerto. Doriot Anthony Dwyer and the Boston Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.Search Amazon.com for Walter Piston Flute Concerto
• 1988 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' Trumpet Concerto. Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli conducting, with soloist John Wallace in Japan.Search Amazon.com for Peter Maxwell Davies' Trumpet Concerto
• 1994 FP of James MacMillan's "Britannia" for orchestra. London Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting at the Barbican in London.