October 13 Today in classical music history

Andre NAVARRA
1911-1988

1652 Birth of composer Johann Heinrich Kittel

1694 Death of German composer and trumpeter Johann Christoph Pezel, in Bautzen, age 55. b-Glatz, 5 DEC 1639. Search Amazon.com for Johann Christoph Pezel

1726 Antonio Vivaldi becomes director of the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice. Search Amazon.com for Antonio Vivaldi

1762 Recital for Empress Maria Theresa by Mozart and his sister at the Schonbrunn Palace. Also attending were Francis I and Maria Antonia (To become Queen Maria-Antoinette of France). Search Amazon.com for Empress Maria Theresa

1783 Birth of composer Frantiszek Soltyk

1789 Birth of French soprano Josephine FODOR-MAINVILLE. First Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville. CD-Rossini - The Barber of Seville / Roberta Peters · Leinsdorf

1792 Birth of German music teacher Moritz HAUPTMAN in Leipzig. He taught Ferdinand David, Hans von Bulow, Joseph Joachim and Arthur Sullivan. d-Dresden, 3 JAN 1868.

1792 Birth of American composer Allen CARDEN in Tennesse. d-1857. Search Amazon.com for Allen CARDEN

1794 Birth of composer Anselm Huttenbrenner

1822 Birth of composer Karl Reinthaler

1823 Birth of composer Immanuel Faisst

1824 Birth of composer Henry Stephen Cutler

1826 Birth of German soprano Johanna WAGNER, neice of Richard. First Elisabeth in Tannhauser. Wagner family tree. Search Amazon.com for Johanna WAGNER

1827 FP of KREUTZER's "L'eau de jouvenance" Paris.

1827 FP of SPOHR's "Pietro con Abano" Kassel.

1830 FP of AUBER's "Le dieu et la bayadère, ou La courtisane amoureuse" Paris.

1836 FP of ADAM's "Le Postillon de Longjumeau" Paris.

1842 FP of ADAM's "Le Roi d'Yvetôt" Paris.

1847 FP of HILLER: "Konradin" Dresden.

1855 FP of first version of Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1 in B in Danzig. CD-Johannes Brahms: Complete Trios

1876 FP of Offenbach's "Pierrette et Jacquot" Paris.

1877 Birth of Dutch composer Elisabeth KUYPER in Amsterdam. d-Lugano, Switzerland, 26 FEB 1953. Search Amazon.com for Elisabeth KUYPER

1879 Birth of Dutch composer-conductor Peter Van ANROOY in Zaltbommel. d-The Hague, 31 DEC 1954. Search Amazon.com for Peter Van ANROOY

1890 Birth of Swedish composer, critic and painter Gösta NYSTROEM in Silvberg, Dalama. d-Särö, near Göteborg, 9 AUG 1966. Search Amazon.com for Gösta NYSTROEM

1890 FP of Richard Strauss' tone poem Macbeth at Weimar with Strauss conducting. CD-Richard Strauss: Macbeth; Der Rosenkavalier Waltz Sequences 1 & 2; Notturno

1891 Birth of composer Ludwig Weber

1893 FP of D'Albert's "Der Rubin" Karlsruhe.

1894 FP of Johann Strauss (II) "Jabuka, oder Das Apfelfest" Vienna.

1897 Birth of American composer Harrison KERR in Cleveland, OH. d-15 AUG 1978. Search Amazon.com for Harrison KERR

1899 Birth of composer Marcelle de Manziarly

1900 Birth of composer Marius-Francois Gaillard

1903 Birth of composer Jens Bjerre

1900 Birth of German mezzo-soprano Irmgard Gerz, in Koblenz. d. Cologne, Sep. 21, 1971.

1905 FP of S. Wagner's "Bruder Lustig" Hamburg.

1908 Birth of Dominican composer Enrique de MARCHENA in Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. d-Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1988. Search Amazon.com for Enrique de MARCHENA

1910 - Birth of composer Otto Joachim

1911 Birth of French cellist Andre NAVARRA. d- 1988. Search Amazon.com for Andre NAVARRA

1912 Birth of Moravian-American composer Hugo WEISGALL in Ivancice, Czechoslovakia. d-11 MAR 1997. Search Amazon.com for Hugo WEISGALL

1913 Birth of Greek soprano Helen Dosia, [Helene-Odette Zygomala] [Elen Dosia] in Constantinople. d. Paris, May 10, 2002. MET Début: Nov. 15, 1947 [Tosca] Tosca, 2 seasons (1947-49) 5 perf., 3 works. Search Amazon.com for Elen Dosia

1913 FP of HERBERT's "The Madcap Duchess" Operetta, Rochester, NY.

1921 FP of FRIML's "June Love" New York.

1922 Birth of composer Gilberto Mendes

1929 First Delius concert, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, Delius attending in London.

1933 Birth of composer Adam Kaczynski

1938 Birth of Italian bass Enzo Dara, in Mantua. MET Début Feb. 15, 1982 [Bartolo] Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 8 seasons (1981-82, 84-85, 88-90, 91-95) 59 perf., 2 roles. Search Amazon.com for Enzo Dara

1944 Birth of New Zealand composer Lyell Richard CRESSWELL in Wellington. Search Amazon.com for Lyell Richard CRESSWELL

1944 FP of David Diamond's Symphony No. 2. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, conducting. CD-Diamond: Symphonies 2 & 4 / Concerto for Orchestra

1945 FP of B. Martinu's Symphony No. 3. Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. CD-Martinu: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5

1949 (?1948)Birth of American soprano Leona MITCHELL in Enid, OK. MET: Début: Dec. 15, 1975 [Micaela] Carmen, 17 seasons (1975-81, 82-93) 215 perf., 17 roles, 16 works. Search Amazon.com for Leona MITCHELL.

1950 Birth of American soprano Katherine CIESINSKI in Newark, DE. Studied in Philadelphia, Temple University and Curtis Institute, with Margaret Harshaw. Début Aix-en-Provence 1976 as Annina in La traviata. American début in Santa Fe, 1979, as Countess Geschwitz in Lulu. MET Opera début 16 MAR 1988 as Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, 2 seasons, 1987-89. Sister of American soprano Kristine CIESINSKI who was born 1952 in Wilmington, DE. Search Amazon.com for Katherine CIESINSKI

1951 Birth of Australian baritone Gregory Yurisich. Search Amazon.com for Gregory Yurisich

1956 Birth in Singapore of English fortepianist Melvyn TAN. 

1958 Birth of Australian baritone Peter Coleman-Wright. Search Amazon.com for Peter Coleman-Wright

1958 FP of William Kraft's Nonet for brass and percussion, in LA, CA.

1959 Death of German [Dutch] composer Rudolf Mengelberg in Monte Carlo, Monaco. b-Krefeld, Germany, 1 FEB 1892. Search Amazon.com for Rudolf Mengelberg

1960 Birth of American tenor César Hernández, in San Juan. Puerto Rico. Search Amazon.com for César Hernández

1960 FP of DONIZETTI's "Il Pigmalione" (scena drammatica, Bergamo.

1960 FP of MANZONI's "La sentenza" Bergamo.

1966 Death of Russian-American composer Arthur Vincent Lourié in Princeton, NJ. b-Saint Petersburg, Russia 14 MAY 1892. Search Amazon.com for Arthur Vincent Lourié

1967 Birth of American composer Mark APPLEBAUM. Search Amazon.com for Mark APPLEBAUM

1968 FP of Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 7, in Stockholm. CD-Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.7

1974 Death of Austrian conductor Joseph Krips in Geneva, age 72. b- 2 APR 1902. Search Amazon.com for Joseph Krips

1977 FP of Andrew Imbrie's Concerto for Flute. Julius Baker with New York Philharmonic.

1979 Death of English composer Rebecca CLARKE in NYC. b-Harrow, 27 AUG 1886. Search Amazon.com for Rebecca CLARKE

1982 FP of Leonard Bernstein's opera-house performance of Candide. New York City Opera at Lincoln Center in NYC. The operatic version, w/ Irra Petina (m/s) (1907-2000) Russ. [Old Woman] in the original cast recording. CD-Candide

1991 Death of baritone Eike Wilm Schulte. b. Oct. 13, 1939. MET Début: Oct. 11, 1991 [Speaker] Die Zauberflöte, 4 seasons (1991-93 97-99) 26 perf., of 13 works. Search Amazon.com for Eike Wilm Schulte

1991 FP of Daniel Asia's Black Light for orchestra. American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies conducting at Carnegie Hall in NYC. CD-Gateways-Symphonic Works of Daniel Asia

1994 FP of James MacMillan's Memento for string quartet. Kronos Quartet at Merkin Hall in NYC. CD-MacMillan: Why is this night different?, Tuireadh, Visions of a November Spring

1998 FP of Giya Kancheli's Piano Quartet L'istesso tempo. Bridge Ensemble in Seattle, WA. Search Amazon.com for Kancheli's Piano Quartet L'istesso tempo