October 10 Today In Classical Music History

Evgeny KISSIN
b-1971

1713 Birth of German composer Johann KREBS in Weimar. d-Altenburg, 1 JAN 1780. Search Amazon.com for Johann KREBS

1727 FP of George F. Handel's Coronation Anthems at Westminster Abbey during the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline, in London. CD-Handel: Coronations Anthems etc...

1739 Handel finishes his Concerto Grosso in G, Op 6, no. 5 in London.

1743 FP of HASSE's "Antigono" Hubertusburg.

1789 Death of French court organist Pierre Louis Couperin. b-Paris, 14 MAR 1755.

1790 Birth of composer George Gerson

1791 Death of Poet Christian Schubart, wrote The Trout later set to music by Schubert. CD-Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956

1797 FP of Spontini's "Adelina Senese, o sia L'lamore secreto" dramma giocoso, Venice (1797).

1804 Birth of composer Albin Masek

1813 (9th?) Birth of Opera composer Giuseppi VERDI in Parma. d-Milan 27 JAN 1901. Search Amazon.com for Giuseppi VERDI

1823 Birth of composer Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner

1825 Death of Russian composer Dimitri Bortniansky, at age 74 in St. Petersburg. b-Glukhov, Ukraine 28 OCT 1751.

1843 FP of DONIZETTI's "Maria di Rohan" Vienna.

1843 FP of THOMAS' "Mina Ménage à trois" Paris.

1847 Birth of composer Gheorghe Dima

1854 Birth of Spanish composer, conductor and violinist Jeronimo GIMENEZ in Seville. d-Madrid, 19 FEB 1923.

1857 FP of Offenbach's "Le Mariage aux lanterns" rev. from "Le Trésor à Mathurin" Paris. Search Amazon.com for Offenbach's "Le Mariage aux lanterns

1862 Birth of Belgian pianist and composer Arthur de GREEF in Louvain. d-Brussels, 29 AUG 1940.

1864 Birth of Belgian soprano Blanche ARRAL, aka Clara Lardinois, in Liège. d-Cliffside, NY 3 MAR 1945. She was the youngest of seventeen children. Studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, and with Matilde Marchesi. Started her career at age sixteen. Was serving maid in the world premiere of Massenet's Manon. Toured throughout Europe, the U.S. South America, and the Orient. Married a New Jersey grammar-school principal twenty-five years younger. Recorded 8 Victor Records in May 1912, and ten other recordings.

1868 Birth of composer Guillermo M Tomas

1874 Birth of German soprano Minnie Nast. d. June 20, 1956. Search Amazon.com for Minnie Nast

1876 Birth of composer Walter Niemann

1880 Birth of Latvian baritone Joseph Schwarz, in Riga. d. Nov. 10, 1926

1889 Death of German composer, pianist and teacher Adolph von Henselt in Warmbrunn, Silesia. b-Schwabach, Bavaria, 9 MAY 1814.

1890 Birth of Italian soprano Gemma Bosini, in Milan. d. Feb. 2, 1982. Search Amazon.com for Gemma Bosini

1896 FP of BLOCK's "Herbergprinses" Antwerp.

1897 Birth of American composer Lamar Edwin STRINGFIELD. d. 21 JAN 1959.

1897 FP of Zemlinsky's "Sarema" Munich.

1898 Birth of German tenor Peter Markwort, in Cologne. d. June 9, 1982. Search Amazon.com for Peter Markwort

1903 Birth of Russian-American composer Vladimir Dukelsky near Pskov. He also wrote popular music as Vernon DUKE.  Search Amazon.com for Vernon DUKE

1906 Birth of French-American composer Louise Victoria TALMA in Arcachon. d-1996.

1906 Birth of American composer Giuseppe Guttovegio, aka Paul CRESTON in NYC. d-San Diego, CA 24 AUG 1985.  Search Amazon.com for Paul CRESTON

1908 Birth in NYC of composer John Waldo Green, who arranged for Guy Lombardo's band and wrote songs like Body and Soul.

1911 FP of Kálmán's "Der gute Kamerad" operetta, Vienna  rev. as "Gold gab ich für Eisen" Vienna Oct. 16, 1914.

1916 Birth of composer Scott Huston

1919 FP of Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau Ohne Schatten 'The Woman Without a Shadow' at the Vienna Staatsoper. w/ Karl Agard Oestvig (t) [Emperor ]; Maria Jeritza (s) (1887-1982) Moravian/Am/cit., and Richard Mayr (bs) (1877-1935) Austrian. [Barak]. CD-Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten

1921 Birth of Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer in Istanbul.

1924 Birth of American composer Philip WALKER in Newburyport, MA.

1924 Serge Koussevitsky conducts first concert with Boston Symphony.

1925 Birth of mezzo-soprano Ursula Mayer-Reinach.  Search Amazon.com for Ursula Mayer-Reinach

1927 Birth of composer Thomas Brendon Wilson

1929 Birth of German soprano Eva-maria Molnar in Mannheim. Search Amazon.com for Eva-maria Molnar

1931 FP of William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast oratorio at the Leeds music festival in London. CD-Walton: Belshazzar's Feast; Coronation Te Deum; Gloria

1935 Birth of composer Paolo Renosto

1935 FP on Broadway, NYC, of George Gerswin's Opera Porgy and Bess at the Alvin Theater. A trial run began on 30 SEP 1935 in Boston. CD-Masterworks Heritage Edition - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess

1937 Death of German composer Walter GRONOSTAY in Berlin. b-Berlin, 1906. Search Amazon.com for Walter GRONOSTAY

1938 Birth of American composer Gloria COATES. Search Amazon.com for Gloria COATES

1938 FP of Dimitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1. Glazunov Quartet in Leningrad. CD-Shostakovich: String Quartets 1-13

1943 FP of IBERT's "Barbebleue" radio opera, Lausanne Radio.

1944 Birth of American composer Stephen SCOTT in Corvallis, OR.

1944 Birth of New Zealand composer and teacher John Body in Te Aroha.

1944 Birth of composer Stephen Scott

1946 Birth of Jamaican Bass Willard WHITE.

1948 FP of Bernstein's La bonne cuisine, Town Hall, NYC. CD-Bernstein: La bonne cuisine; Jeremiah's Symphony And The Age Of Anxiety

1949 Birth of American composer Warren BURT. Moved to Australia in 1975.

1956 Birth of Franch soprano Sylvie Valayre. Search Amazon.com for  Sylvie Valayre

1959 Birth of English composer Steve MARTLAND.

1962 Birth of mezzo-soprano Liliana Nikiteanu. Search Amazon.com for Liliana Nikiteanu

1968 FP of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia. New York Philharmonic and The Swingle Singers, Berio conducting. CD-Berio: Sinfonia; Eindrücke

1973 Birth of Russian-Southern Ural composer Lera AUERBACH in Chelyabinsk. Search Amazon.com for Lera AUERBACH

1971 Birth of Russian pianist Evgeny KISSIN in Moscow. Search Amazon.com for Evgeny KISSIN

1985 FP of Benjamin Lees' Symphony No. 4 Memorial Candles. Pinchas Zukerman, in Dallas. Search Amazon.com for Lees' Symphony No. 4 Memorial Candles

1986 Death of South African (British) composer, violinist, cellist and teacher Priaulx Rainier in France. b-Natal, South Africa 3 FEB 1903. Search Amazon.com for Priaulx Rainier

2000 Death of Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas in Budapest. b-15 December 1905, in Nagykanizsa.Wikipedia

2003 Death of American pianist Eugene Istomin. b-1925 Search Amazon.com for Eugene Istomin

2003 FP of Sallinen's Concerto for Horn. Esa Tapani, horn. Helsinki Philharmonic, Finland. Search Amazon.com for Sallinen's Concerto for Horn

2004 FP of Gabriela Len Franks' Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea.  Performed by baritone Robert Gardner with composer, piano at Weill Recital Hall, NYC. Search Amazon.com for Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea.

2010 Death of Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland in Geneva. OBIT