MARCH 26

Mathilde MARCHESI

671 Birth of composer Giacomo Cesare Predieri.

1517 Death of Belgian composer Heinrich Isaac in Florence Italy. b-Flanders, 1450.

1566 Death of Spanish composer and organist Antonio de Cabezón, at age 56, in Madrid. b-1510.

1657 Death of Dutch composer Jacob van Eyck. b-c.1590

1684 Birth of composer Johann Graf.

1717 Birth of composer Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila.

1723 On a Good Friday, J. S. Bach conducts the FP of his St. John Passion, at the Thomaskirche, Leipzig.

1731 FP of G. F. Handel's opera Acis and Galatea in London.

1735 FP of Handel's Organ Concerto Op. 4, no. 5. It was an intermission feature during a revival performance of his oratorio Deborah at the Covent Garden Theater, in London. [Julian calendar, Gregorian date is 6 APR]

1758 Birth of composer Johann Daniel Ferstenberg.

1783 Birth of composer Johann Baptist Weigl.

1806 Birth of composer Josef Slavik.

1811 Beethoven finishes his Archduke Trio Op 97

1819 Birth of composer Francisco Eduardo da Costa.

1826 (?) Birth of German mezzo-soprano and singing teacher Mathilde MARCHESI. (Calve, Eames, Gerster, Garden and Melba her famous students). d- London, 17 NOV 1913

1827 Death of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna at age 56. b-16 DEC 1770. Read: Beethoven THE BIOGRAPHY.

1827 FP of Rossini's opera Moses in Egypt in French at the Paris Opéra.

1827 Birth of composer Emanuel Kania.

1828 FP of Franz Schubert's Eb trio, Op 100 at a sucessful concert of his own works in Vienna.

1830 Birth of American ballad composer John Rogers THOMAS. d-1896.

1840 Birth of composer Carli Zoeller.

1844 FP of AUBER's "La sirène" in Paris.

1854 Birth of composer Braulio Dueno Colon.

1859 Birth of Russian composer Nikolai Alexandrovich SOKOLOV who taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. d- Petrograd, 27 MA 1922.

1862 Birth of composer George William Louis Marshall-Hall.

1874 Birth of composer Oskar Nedbal.

1876 Birth of Spanish baritone Emilio SAGI-BARBA in Barcelona. d-Bolop de la Marina, Aug. 7, 1949.

1882 Birth of French contralto Jeanne GERVILLE-REACHE  in Orthez. See photo. d- NYC, 5 JAN 1915.

1884 Birth of German born, Swiss pianist Wilhelm BACKHAUS. d-5 JUL 1969.

1885 The new building of the Leipzig Gewandhaus opens.

1885 Birth of composer Julius Harrison. 

1889 Birth of composer Vaclav Kapral.

1894 Birth of Roumanian soprano Viorica URSULEAC in Cernauti, Romania, Mar. 26, 1894; d. Ehrwald, Austria, Oct. 23, 1985.

1896 Birth of composer Richard Flury .

1898 Birth of composer Renzo Massarani.

1899 Birth of composer William Baines.

1900 Birth of Russian-American song and hymn composer Isadore FREED. Freed was born in Russia but raised and trained in the USAmerica. d-1960.

1904 Birth of German composer Hermann SCHRöDER in Bernkastel (Mosel).

1905 Birth of Belgian born, French conductor Andre CLUYTENS in Antwerp. d- Near Paris, 3 JUN 1967. He studied piano at the Antwerp Cons., and conducted opera for the Théâtre Royal in Antwerp. His father was a conductor there also. Cluytens was the first French conductor at Bayreuth (1955-58). He was scheduled to make his début at the Met when he died. Search Andre CLUYTENS

1905 Birth of composer Pablo Garrido.

1907 Birth of composer Louis Saguer.

1907 Birth of American film composer Leigh HARLINE in Salt Lake City, UT. d-1969. Score credits.

1916 Birth of English conductor and composer Harry RABINOWITZ.

1918 Death of Russian composer Cesar Cui at age 83, in Petrograd. b-Vilnius, 18 JAN 1835.

1921 Birth of Dutch bass Arnold van MILL in Schuedam, Mar. 26, 1921; d-1996.

1923 Birth of American bandmaster and composer James Clifton WILLIAMS in Traskwood, Arkansas. d-12 FEB 1976.

1925 Birth of French composer and conductor Pierre BOULEZ in Montbrison. d-5 Jan 2016.

1925 Birth of Chilean-American composer Claudio SPIES. Taught music theory, composition, and performance at Princeton University from 1970.

1930 Birth of composer Cristobal Halffter.

1936 Birth of composer Erich Urbanner.

1938 FP of Howard Hanson's Third Symphony.

1943 FP of William Schuman's cantata A Free Song based on a Walt Whitman poem, in Boston. Won Pulitzer Prize.(Whitman died on this day in 1892 in Camden, NJ).

1944 MET debut of opera conductor Kurt Herbert Adler (con/opera) (1905-1988) Austrian/Am; Concerts.

1948 Birth of Korean violinist Kyung WHA-CHUNG in Seoul.

1948 Composer Hanns Eisler deported from USA because of his links to communists.

1958 FP of Henry Cowell's Ongaku  a symphonic suite on Japanese themes, by the Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney conducting.

1958 FP of Witold Lutoslawski's Marche Funèbre memory of Béla Bartók, in Katowice, Poland.

1960 FP of Ralph Shapey's Evocation for violin, piano and percussion, in NYC.

1965 Death of Belgian composer Emiel Hullebroeck. b-20 FEB 1878.

1966 Birth of American composer Laurence BITENSKY.

1970 Birth of composer Hsin-Jung Tsai.

1977 Death of British composer, pianist and actress Madeleine Dring, at age 53, in Streatham, London.

1984 FP of Philip Glass' Act V The Rome Section, from The CIVIL warS. Conducted by Marcello Panni at the Rome Opera.

1998 FP of E. T. Zwilich's Violin Concerto. Orchestra of St. Luke's, Hugh Wolff conducting, with Pamela Frank, at Carnegie Hall in NYC.

2000 Classical composer John Corigliano (KOR eh LEE AH noh) wins academy award for his score for the film The Red Violin.

2001 FP of John Corigliano's Mannheim Rocket in Mannheim. Mannheim National Theater Orchestra.