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1717 Closing of the King's Theater in London
for three years.
1738 Birth of composer Constantin Reindl
1744 Death of French opera composer Andre Campra at Versailles. Was
music director of Notre Dame and published music under his brother Joseph's
name in order to keep his job. Uncovered later, he was fired. b-Aix-en-Provence, 4 DEC 1660. Search for Andre Campra
1769 First documented conducted concert in America given by
Josiah Flagg in Boston, MA.
1783 Birth of composer August Alexander Klengel
1824 13 year old Franz Liszt performs a
demonstration of the new Piano
Forte invented by Sebastian Erard, at Drury Lane in London.
1830 FP of complete Missa Solemnis
by Beethoven, at Warnsdorf, Bohemia. CD-Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Mass In C
1842 Birth of composer Josef Labor
1850 Birth of composer Joseph SKELLY. d-1895.
1864 Birth of composer Anton Beer-Walbrun
1865 Birth of English tenor John COATES in Yorkshire.
1870 Birth of American composer Joseph Carl BREIL in Pittsburgh, PA. d-LA, CA 23 JAN 1926.
1871 (28th?) Birth of Italian soprano Luisa TETRAZZINI sister of Eva in Florence. d- Milan 28 APR 1940.
1874 Birth of composer Georg Gohler
1881 Birth of German musicologist Kurt SACHS in Berlin. In America since
1938.
1885 Birth of Chilian composer Pedro ALLENDE in Santiago. aka Pedro Humberto Allende Saròn. d-16 AUG 1959.
1885 Birth of composer Andre Gailhard
1886 Birth of composer George Frederick BOYLE. d-1948.
1888 FP of Richard Wagner's Die Feen 'The Fairies' [1834], at the Hoftheater, in Munich. CD-Wagner - Die Feen (The Fairies) / Ether Gray, J. Alexander, J. Anderson, Studer, Hermann, Rootering, Orth, Lövaas, Laki, Moll, Helm; Sawallisch
1889 FP of Alexander Glazunov's Symphony No. 2
, in Paris.
1893 Birth of Finnish composer Aarre MERIKANTO in Helsinki. d-Helsinki, 29 SEP 1958.
1897 Birth of composer Ottmar Gerster
1901 Birth of American baritone and actor Nelson EDDY ![Out of the Night [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u7RnIODMG_Q0p2XB01nZZLYT3DyOf1CRApYtCXtEvBU-w2aSjNFJ1dfCROtoU73q69NWG8UywiSjZIhuz8c8d8mDXIyIvUrbp-ENhuBWytpT8Kp1J-pAmLwxPHe4PP5zc8G_Ys1eRMy9Fe3EADO4vbxAQKRD1W6dqbNUnr2yUOQ09FDprfds_cZQKKT4aAB_o8_OUqYoVh2-YHqawJXWzdp4g=s0-d)
in Providence, RI. (Never married to film partner Jeanette MacDonald). Rose Marie, Naughty Marietta, Girl of the Golden West. See Links page.
d-Miami Beach, FL 6 MAR 1967
1908 Birth of American composer Leroy (luh ROY) ANDERSON 
in Cambridge, MA. Light music and
Boston
Pops arranger. d-Woodbury, CT 18 MAY 1975. Search for Leroy ANDERSON
1910 Birth of American popular music composer Frank LOESSER.
1911 Birth of American Composer and conductor Bernard HERRMANN in NYC. Hitchcock film
scores. d-LA, CA 24 DEC 1975. GMN entry.
1912 Birth of Mexican composer Jose Pablo MONCAYO in Guadalajara. d-Mexico City, 16 JUN 1958.
1914 Birth of Czech-Swiss conductor and pianist Rafael KUBELIK near Kolin. d-Lucerne, 11 AUG 1996.
1920 Birth of Cuban composer Juan BLANCO
in Havana.
1922 Birth of American film score composer Ralph BURNS in Newton, MA. d-LA, CA 21 NOV 2001.
1923 Birth of Chinese-American composer Chou Wen-Chung in Cheefoo, China. On faculty at Columbia University, NYC.
1924 Birth of American composer Ezra LADERMAN, in Brooklyn, NY.
1925 Birth of American composer Hale SMITH.
1926 FP of Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta
in Prague. CD-Janacek: Sinfonietta Op60; Taras Bulba, rhapsody
1927 Birth of Dutch composer Mathieu DIJKER in Amsterdam.
1929 Birth of composer Michio Mamaia
1934 Radio Station W2XR begins broadcasting from NYC. It was a
noncommercial high-fidelity experiment. It became classical music station
WQXR when it received a commercial license.
1940 Birth of composer Viacheslav Artyomov
1941 Death of Polish statesman, pianist and composer Ignace Jan Paderewski 
in NYC at age 80. Buried at Arlington National Cemetary in Virginia by
order of FDR. On 30 JUN 1992, reburied with honors in Warsaw.
b-Kurilowka, 18 NOV 1860.
Search for Ignace Jan Paderewski
1946 Birth of American composer Joelle WALLACH.
1948 Birth of Bulgarian
conductor
Emil TCHAKAROV
. Bulgarian State Philharmonic, 1974.
1951 FP of Leroy Anderson's Plink, Plank, Plunk!
and Fiddle-Faddle
. Anderson conducting on his birthday at a Decca recording session in NYC.
1957 Birth of American composer Richard STRUNK in Casper, WY.
1962 Death of Canadian composer Rodolphe Mathieu in Montreal. b-Portneuf, Quebec 10 JUL 1890. father of Rene Andre Rodolphe 1929-1968.
1963 Birth of German violinist Anne-Sophie MUTTER 
(AH' nah soh FEE' MOO´tr). Search for Anne-Sophie MUTTER
1965 Death of Belgian composer Joseph Ryelandt in Brugge. b-Brugge, 7 APR 1870.
1966 Death of Belgian composer Arthur Meulemans in Brussels. b-Aarschot, 19 MAY 1884.
1971 Birth of American composer Mischa Sarché ZUPKO.
1985 FP of Joan Tower's Island Rhythms. 
Florida Orchestra, Irwin Hoffman, conducting. Commissioned for the opening of Harbour Island in Tampa, FL.
1987 Birth of English composer Peter STEVENS in Bury, Manchester.
1997 FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Giro
revised for orchestra. Avanti! Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer, in Porvoo, Finland. CD-Salonen - LA Variations · Five Images After Sappho · Mania · Gambit · Giro / Upshaw · Karttunen · L.A. Phil. · London Sinfonietta · Salonen