MARCH 29

Johann
Spangenberg

1484 Birth of composer Johann Spangenberg.

1616 Birth of composer Johann Erasmus Kindermann.

1636 Birth of composer Esaias Reusner.

1697 Death of German composer and organist Nicolaus Bruhns at age 32, in Husum.

1716 Antonio Vivaldi looses job at Pieta because he spends too much time on operas.

1719 Birth of English music critic and writer Sir John HAWKINS who wrote the first history of music.

1725 Birth of composer Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik STALDER.

1752 Birth of composer Edward Jones.

1795 First concert appearance by Beethoven, at the Vienna Burgtheater, introducing his first Piano Concerto actually Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb with the composer as soloist. The concerto was written and premiered before his Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, which was published first.

1806 FP of Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3. This was part of the second, or revised version, of the opera Fidelio at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

1827 Beethoven's funeral in Vienna attended by Schubert, Hummel, Czerny and Kreutzer and other musical luminaries.

1836 FP of Richard Wagner's opera Das Liebesverbot 'The Ban on Love' at the Stadttheater in Magdeburg. Based on Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure. Wagner: Das Liebesverbot

1859 Birth of French opera composer Herman BEMBERG in Paris. d-Bern, Switzerland, 21 JUL 1931.

1862 Birth of American composer Carl BUSCH. d-1943.

1871 The Royal Albert Hall opens in London. Queen Victoria in attendance.

1874 FP of Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 3 in Eb, in Prague.

1875 (Apr 29?) Birth of composer Paul Rubens. d-5 February 1917 English songwriter and librettist for some of the most popular Edwardian musical comedies.

1876 Birth of composer Jan Ingenhoven.

1878 Birth of American composer of early musicals, Albert Von TILZER. d-1956.

1879 FP of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugen Onegin at the Malïy Theater in Moscow. READ: Eugene Onegin [Julian calendar, Gregorian is 17 MAR].

1882 FP of the first symphony of 16 year old composer Alexander Glazunov in St. Petersburg. Mili Balakirev conducting. [Julian calendar, Gregorian 17 MAR].

1886 Birth of composer Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson.

1888 Death of French composer Charles-Henri Alkan, age 75, in Paris. b-30 NOV 1813.

1890 Birth of Polish bass Robert BURG [Bart] in Prague. d-Dresden, 9 FEB 1946.

1892 FP of 1st mm of S. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1. Vasily Safanov conducting, the composer was soloist, in Moscow. [Julian calendar, Gregorian 17 MAR].

1897 Birth of German tenor Fritz GöLLNITZ. d-Hamburg, 14 MAY 1965. Début (1930).

1900 Birth of French bass-baritone Bernard Henri ETCHEVERRY in Bordeaux. d-Paris, 14 NOV 1960.

1900 In Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, Fritz Scheel conducts a concert with musicians who were to become The Fabulous Philidelphians of The Philadelphia Orchestra. READ: Those fabulous Philadelphians: the life of a great orchestra.

1901 FP of Alexander Scriabin's complete First Symphony in Moscow.

1902 Birth of English composer Sir William Turner WALTON in Lancashire. d-8 MAR 1983. READ: William Walton: Music and Literature.

1902 Birth of Italian opera conductor Mario ROSSI in Rome. d-Rome, 29 JUN 1992.

1906 Birth of English-born American organist E. Power BIGGS in Westcliff. d-Boston, 1977.

1911 Death of French composer Félix-Alexandre Guilmant. b-12 MAR 1837.

1911 FP of Chadwick's Suite Symphonique. Philadelphia Orchestra, with the composer conducting.

1912 Birth of German bass Fritz OLLENDORF in Darmstadt. d-Zurich, 29 MAR 1977.

1914 FP of Alfredo Casella's May Night. Casella conducting, in Paris.

1924 Death of Irish organist, conductor, teacher and composer Sir Charles Villers Stanford in London. b-Dublin, 30 SEP 1852.

1926 Birth of German conductor Werner TORKANOWSKY in Berlin. Conducted New Orleans Sym; Bangor Symphony Orchestra.

1928 Birth of composer Vaclav Felix.

1931 Birth of American soprano Gloria DAVY in New Rochelle, NY. MET Opera Début 12 FEB 1958 [Aida] Aida, 4 seasons (1957-61) 15 perf., 4 works.

1932 Birth of American tenor William BROWN is born in Jackson, Mississippi. d-Jacksonville, Fl OCT 2004 Obituary.

1934 Birth of composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler.

1935 Birth of Welsh bass Delme Bryn-Jones in Brynamman, Carmarthenshire, Wales. d- 25 MAY 2001.

1936 Birth of English composer Richard Rodney BENNETT in Broadstairs, Kent. d-24 DEC 2012.OBIT

1937 Death of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (shem-uh-NOFF-skee) in Switzerland at age 55. b-6 OCT 1882.

1953 Birth of twin Turkish pianists Guher and Suher PEKINEL.

1962 Birth of Swedish bass Urban MALMBERG in Stockholm.

1964 Birth of Greek guitarist and composer Apostolos PARASKEVAS in Volos, Greece.

1974 Birth of American composer Tom SCHNELLER. Cornell University graduate student and founding member of Tabula Rasa.

1982 Death of german composer and teacher Carl Orff. b-10 JUL 1895.

2000 FP of Bright Sheng's String Quartet No. 4. Shanghai String Quartet, in Richmond VA.

2001 Death of American jazz and classical (Bach) pianist and composer John Lewis in NYC at age 80. (Modern Jazz Quartet)

2003 FP of Augusta Reed Thomas' Canticle Weaving for trombone and orchestra. Ralph Sauer, trombone. Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond. in LA, CA.

2011 Death of English tenor Robert Tear. b-8 MAR 1939. OBIT.