SEPTEMBER 28 Today in classical music history

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1679 Birth of composer Mihael Omerza

1612 Birth of opera composer Juan HILDAGO. d. Mar. 30,1685 Opera: "La púrpura de la rosa" (1660).

1681 Birth of German composer Johann MATTHESON in Hamburg. d-Hamburg, 17 APR 1764. Developed church cantata form. Search Amazon.com for Johann MATTHESON

1705 Birth of composer Johann Peter Kellner

1732 FP of Pergolesi's three act comedy The Lovelorn Brother in Naples at the Teatro dei Fiorentini.

1745 The British national anthem, God Save the King was first performed, at Drury Lane Theatre in London.

1746 Giovanni Punto (born Jan Václav Stich) (September 28, 1746, Žehušice, Bohemia – February 16, 1803, Prague, Bohemia) was a Czech horn player (more correctly, he played the cor basse) and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater number of notes. He was an international celebrity in the 18th and early 19th centuries, known in London, Paris, and throughout Germany; A Hungarian critic wrote in 1800 after a performance in Pest by Punto and Beethoven of Beethoven's Op. 17 Sonata for Horn and Piano. -wikipedia

1748 Birth of composer Johann Michael Demmler

1746 (28 OCT?)Birth of German composer Giovanni PUNTO aka Johann Wenzel (Jan Václav) Stich. d-1803.

1767 FP of GOSSEC's "Le Double Déguisement" in Paris.

1808 Death of Moravian composer, conductor and violinist Paul Pavel Hoesslin in Vienna. b-Neureisch, 30 DEC 1756.

1813 Birth of composer Anton Wallerstein

1818 FP of HÉROLD's "Le Premier Venu" in Paris.

1825 (JC, GC=10 OCT)Death of Russian composer Dimitri Bortniansky, at age 74, in St. Petersburg.

1826 Death of Dutch musician Dietrich Winkel. Improved the metronome.

1834 Birth of French conductor and violinist Charles LAMOUREUX in Bordeaux. d- Paris, 21 DEC 1899.

1844 Birth of composer Michael Hertz

1855 Birth of German soprano Fanny Moran-Olden. d. Berlin, Nov. 13, 1906: MET Debut: Nov. 28, 1888 [Valentine] Les Huguenots, 2 seasons (1888-89, 1900-01) 32 perf., 9 works.

1863 FP of Bizet's opera The Pearl Fishers in Paris.  CD-Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) / Michel Plasson

1870 Birth of French composer Florent SCHMITT in Blamont. d-nr. Paris, 17 AUG 1958.

1875 Birth of Bavarian soprano Hermine BOSSETTI aka Hermine von Flick. d-1 MAY 1936. Début in Wiesbaden as Ännchen in Der Freischütz, 1898. Vienna Imperial Opera, 1900. Munich Royal Opera, 1901 - 1924. Covent Garden, 1905, 1907 and 1913. Bossetti also taught at Frankfurt and Munich.

1879 Birth of Belgian cellist Iwan d'ARCHAMBEAU in Herve'. d-Villefranche-sur-Mer, 29 DEC 1955. With the Flonzaley Quartet 1903-1927.

1881 Birth of composer Henry Geehl

1892 Birth of Hungarian soprano Adelina Adler. d. 1941.

1900 FP of IPPOLITOV-IVANOV's"Asya" Moscow (1900).

1901 Death of Italian mezzo-soprano Adelaide Borghi-Mamo. b. Bologna, 1829.

1902 Birth of American musicologist Donald Jay GROUT in Rock Rapids, Iowa. d-Skaneateles, NY 9 MAR 1987. CDs-Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music Volume 1 (6 CDs) by Donald Jay Grout

1908 Birth of composer Marin Goleminov

1908 FP of HERBERT's "Little Nemo" Operetta, Philadelphia.

1913 Birth of American composer Vivian FINE in Chicago. d-car accident Bennington, VT, 20 MAR 2000. OBIT.  | BOOK-Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 88) by Judith Cody

1914 Death of Yugoslavian composer Stevan Mokranjac in Skopje. b-Negotin, 9 JAN 1856.

1917 Birth of English ballet dancer Michael SOMES (Royal Ballet in London).

1917 Birth of composer Vaclav Kaslik, Czechoslovakia, opera conductor

1918 FP of Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat, 'The Soldier's Tale'. Ernest Ansermet conducting at Lausanne's Theatre Municipal. CD-Igor Stravinsky: L'histoire du soldat

1921 Birth of composer Ilhan Usmanbas

1923 Birth of Hugh Wiley HITCHCOCK in Detroit. A musicologist and editor, co-editor of
New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Professor of Music of the City University of New York and founding director of the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College. BOOK-The New Grove Dictionary of American Music by H. Wiley Hitchcock (Editor), Stanley Sadie (Editor)

1924 Birth of Russian conductor and violist Rudolph BARSHAI in Labinskaya.

1926 Birth of Austrian tenor Ferry Gruber, in Vienna.

1927 Birth of Mexican composer Joaquin Gutiérrez HERAS.

1931 Birth of American composer Walter MAY.

1932 Birth of British empresario Sir Jeremy ISAACS in Glasgow, former general director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

1937 Birth of American composer Edward APPELBAUM in LA.

1939 Birth of American tenor Harry Theyard, (Théard) in New Orleans. MET Début: Jan. 17, 1974 [Hoffmann] Les Contes d'Hoffmann, 5 seasons (1973-77, 80-81) 68 perf., 9 works.

1944 Birth of English baritone Thomas ALLEN in Seaham.

1946 Death of German conductor Franz von Hoesslin in France. b-Munich, 31 DEC 1885.

1949 Birth of German tenor Hans Peter Blochwitz, in Garmisch. MET Début: Sep. 27, 1990 [Ottavio] Don Giovanni, 1 season (19 90-91) 8 perf. 1 role.

1956 Birth of American Composer Laura KAMINSKY in NYC. Director of the Music and Theater Programs at The New School.

1959 Death of English humorist and musician Gerard Hoffnung in London. b-Berlin, 1925.

1961 Birth of Belgian composer Alain De Ley in Wilrijk.

1961 FP Bartok's Scherzo for piano, in Budapest.

1964 Death of English composer, teacher, organist and administrator, Sir George Dyson at age 81, in Winchester. b-Halifax, 1883.

1968 Debut of Spanish tenor Placido Domingo at the MET in NYC; in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur.

1972 FP of Petrassi's Concerto for Orchestra No. 8, in Chicago.

1975 Death of Danish conductor Johan Hye-Knudsen in Copenhagen. b-Nyborg, 24 MAY 1896.

1976 Birth of Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo .

1986 Death of Sir Robert Helpmann, Australian dancer and choreographer. He choreographed several notable ballets including Miracle in the Gorbals, The Soldier's Tale and Elektra.

1991 Death of French composer Eugène Bozza in Valenciennes. b-Nice, 4 APR 1905.

1997 FP of James MacMillan's Symphony Vigil, by the London Symphony, Mstislav Rostropovich conducting at the Barbican in London.

2010 Death of Metropolitan Opera soprano and Broadway singer Dolores Wilson in New Jersey at age 82.