Today in classical music history SEPTEMBER 4

Constantin HUYGENS

1596 Birth of Dutch composer, violist, lutenist,
harpsichordist and organist Constantin HUYGENS at The Hague.

1622 - Birth of composer Jacob Hintze

1644 Birth of Spanish organist and composer Juan Bautista Jose CABANILLES in Valencia. d-Valencia, 29 APR 1712.

1761 Birth of composer Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen

1765 Leopold Mozart and his children travel to The Hague. The children get an intestinal typhoid.

1811 (4 JUL?)Birth of French concert pianist and teacher Marie PLEYEL in Paris. m-Camille Pleyel, Austrian piano builder and composer. d-Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels Capital Region of Belgium), 30 MAR 1875. Affair with Berlioz in 1830.

1815 Birth of composer Mihaly Mosonyi

1816 Birth of composer Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin

1824(5th?)Birth of Austrian composer and organist Anton Joseph BRUCKNER in Ansfelden. d-Vienna, 11
SEP 1896.

1827 Death of Michael Pamer.

1843 Birth of composer Jan Levoslav Bella

1844 Death of minister-composer Oliver Holden in Charlestown, MA. b-Shirley, MA 18 SEP 1765.

1859 Birth of composer Edoardo Mascheroni

1872 Birth of
Alexander Davidov Tenor
Born 4 Sep 1872 Poltava Died 28 Jun 1944
Debut 1893
Teacher, Camille Everardi

1876 Birth of Ernesto Badini Baritone
Born 4 Sep 1876 S.Colombano al Lambro Died 6 July 1937
Debut as Figaro in Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) 1895
Teacher, Cesari
Created Blake in Sly (Wolf-Ferrari)
Sang in premiere of Piccolo Marat (Mascagni)
Cena Delle Beffe (Giordano)

1881 Birth of Erna Denera Soprano
Born 4 Sep 1881 Posnan Died 16 Mar 1938
Debut as Senta in Flying Dutchman (Wagner) 1906
Teachers, Franz Dulong, Heinrich Feinhals

1881 Birth of American composer Walter Ruel COWLES. d-1959.

1883 Birth of composer Karel Candael

1887 Birth of Carl Martin Oehman Tenor / Teacher of Singing
Born 4 Sep 1887 Floda Sweden Died 26 Dec 1967
Debut as Chenier in Andrea Chenier (Giordano) 1914
Teachers, Gentzel, Giuseppe Oxilia, Quadri
Pupils, Nicolai Gedda, Carl-Axel Hallgren, Erik Saeden
Uno Stjernqvist, Martti Talvela, Usko Viitanen

1892 Birth of French composer Darius MILHAUD in Aix-en-Provence. d-Geneva, 22 JUN 1974. In USA
from 1940.

1896 Birth of Cyrena Van Gordon Mezzo-Soprano
Born 4 Sep 1896 Camden Ohio Died 4 Apr 1964
Debut as Amneris in Aida (Verdi) 1913
Teacher, Louise Dotti

1899 Birth of English composer and organist Frederic CURZON in London. d-Bournemouth, 1973.

1903 Death of German conductor Hermann Zumpe in Munich. b-Oppach, 9 APR 1850.

1906 Birth of American critic and musicologist Gilbert CHASE in Havana.

1906 Birth of composer Antanas Raciunas

1906 Birth of composer Alexander Moyzes

1907(5th)Death of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in Bergen. b-Bergen, 15 JUN 1843.

1909 Birth of composer Karel Horky

1915 Birth of German opera/ and operetta singer Rudolf Schock

1921 Birth of soprano Gita De La Fuente
Born 4 Sep 1921 London
Sang in premiere of Manana (Benjamin)

1934 Birth of Umberto Grilli Tenor
Born 4 Sep 1934 Pavia
Debut as Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 1957
Teachers, Adelaide Saraceni, Giannino Zecca

1937 Death of Vasily Petrov Bass
Born 12 Mar 1875 Alexeyevka Ukraine Died 4 Sep 1937
Debut as Miller in Rusalka (Dargomyzsky) 1902
Teacher, Bartsal

1937 Death of Stanislav Doubransky Tenor
Born 19 Jun 1867 Kolin Died 4 Sep 1937
Debut as Dalibor in Dalibor (Smetana) 13 Oct 1897

1939 Birth of American pianist Irwin GAGE in Cleveland.

1942 Birth of Canadian composer Brian CHERNEY in Peterborough, Ontario.

1962 Birth of Irish-American composer Michael REMSON.

1964 Birth of German bass-baritone Rene PAPE.

1965 Death of Alsatian theologist, missionary, organist and Bach scholar, Albert Schweitzer, in Lambarene, Gabon at the age of 90. b-Kaysersberg, 14 JAN 1875.

1972 Birth of American composer Mickey HELMS in Redwood City, CA.

1991 Death of Carlos Alexander Bass-Baritone
Born 18 Oct 1915 Died 4 Sep 1991
Dwbuy as Masetto in Don Giovanni (Mozart) 1941
Teachers, Alma Achadow, Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Friedrich Schorr
Lothar Wallerstein
Created Prometheus in Prometheus (Orff)
Maestro in Ameise (Ronnefeld)

1996 FP of Steven Mackey's Lost Found for orchestra. San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.

1997 (5th)Death of Hungarian-English conductor Georg Solti age 84, vacationing in Southern France
with his family...just before midnight. b-Budapest, 21 OCT 1912.

1999 FP of Philip Glass' score to accompany the classic 1931 Tod Browning horror film Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. Kronos Quartet at Telluride, CO.

2002 Death of Lituanian born French pianist Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. b- Kaunas, Lithuania 26 MAY 1904. Obituary. | CD-Vlado Perlemuter Plays Ravel.