1772 Birth of Italian tenor Domenico Ronconi in Rovigo. Died 13 Apr 1839
Pupils, Erminia Frezzolini, Giorgio Ronconi (son), Caroline Unger
Created Cavalier Di Comingio in Adelaide e Comingio (Pacini)
Arrigo in Sposa Fedele (Pacini)
Orlando in Gastalda ed ilLacche (G Mosca)
Lindoro in Italiani in Algeri (L Mosca)
1798 USAmerica President John Adams signs an Act of Congress establishing the United States Marine Band, in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital.
1801 Birth of American composer John Hill HEWITT in Maiden Lane, NY. d-1890.
1807 Birth of Bohemian tenor Joseph TICHATSCHEK in Teplice. Was the first Rienzi in 1842
and the first Tannhauser in 1845. d-18 Jan 1886
Teacher, Giuseppe Ciccimarra
Created Cola Rienzi in Rienzi (Wagner)
Tannhauser in Tannhauser (Wagner)
1839 Nine year old pianist Anton RUBINSTEIN makes his Mosocw
debut.
1841 Birth of composer Daniel de Lange, Dutch
1849 (18th?) Birth of soprano Anna Maria Louise Judic in Semur-en-Auxois. Died 14 Apr 1911
Created Princess Cunegone in Rei Carotte (Offenbach)
Sang in premiere of Madame L'Archduc (Offenbach)
Creole (Offenbach)
Doctor Ox (Offenbach)
Lili (Herve)
Mamzelle Nitouche (Herve)
Rousette (Lecocq)
Grand Casimir (Lecocq)
Niniche (Boullard)
1862 Birth of English soprano and composer Lotte (Liza) LEHMANN in London. d-Pinner, 19 SEP
1918. Debut 23 Nov 1885
Teachers, Albert Randegger, Raunkilde
Pupil, Dora Labbette
1882 Edward MacDowell gives FP of his Piano Concerto No. 1 at
Liszt's request in Zurich. CD-MacDowell: Piano Concertos
1885 The First concert of the Boston Promenade Orchestra which later became the Boston Pops. Performed at the old Boston Music Hall under Adolf Neuendorff.
1888 Birth of Oscar Lassner Baritone / Teacher of Singing
Born 11 July 1888
Teacher, Amalie Materna
Pupils, Rudolf Bockelmann, Carla Spletter
1896 Birth of Evelyn Scotney Soprano
Born 11 July 1896 Ballarat Victoria Died 5 Aug 1967
Debut as Frasquita in Carmen (Bizet) 2 Dec 1911
Teachers:- Mathilde Marchesi, Paolo Tosti
1899 Birth of American composer George Frederick McKAY in Harrington, WA. d-Stateline, NV 4 OCT 1970.
1914 Birth of Finnish choral director Ahti SONNINEN in Kuopio. d-Helsinki, 27 AUG 1984.
1916 Birth of American composer Howard BRUBECK in Concord,
CA. d-Escondido, CA 16 FEB 1993. Brother of composer, pianist Dave Brubeck.
1921 FP of George Gershwin's George White's Scandals of 1921 at the Liberty Theater in NYC.
1922 Opening concert of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestral performances. Alfred
Hertz the first conductor.
1923 Birth of Ludmilla Dvorakova Soprano
Born 11 July 1923 Prague
Debut as Leonora in Fidelio (Beethoven) 1949
Teacher :- Jarmila Vavradova
Sang in premiere of Kraluv Mincmistr (Vostrak)
1925 Birth of American soprano Mattiwilda DOBBS in Atlanta, GA. Debut in Nightingale (Stravinsky) 1952
Teachers, Pierre Bernac, Lotte Lehmann
1925 Birth of Swedish tenor Nicolai GEDDA (aka Ustinov) in Stockholm.
1926 Birth of composer Rodolfo Arizaga
1927 Birth of Swedish-American conductor Herbert BLOMSTEDT in
Springfield MA.
1929 Birth of baritone Hermann PREY in Berlin Germany.
d- 22 JUL 1998. Debut as Moruccio in Tiefland (D'Albert) 1952
Teachers:- Gunther Baum, Harry Gottschalk, Jaro Prohaska
Created Meton in Pallas Athene Weint (Krenek)
1937 Death of American composer George Gershwin, of a brain tumor, in Beverly Hills, CA. Age 38. b-NYC, 26 SEP 1898. aka Jacob Gershowitz.
1937 Death of Marcia van Dresser Soprano
Born 4 Dec 1877 Memphis Died 11 Jul 1937
Teachers:- Hermine Bosetti, Jean De Reszke, Mrs Robinson-Duff
1940 First conducting by Leonard Bernstein. He lead the Boston Pops in a performance of Wagner's Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger at an open-air Esplanade Concert at the shell on the Charles river.
1953 Birth of English conductor and composer Bramwell TOVEY.
1953 Birth of Nicholas Folwell Baritone
Born 11 July 1953 Middlesex
Debut as Bosun in Billy Budd (Britten) 1978
Teacher :- Raimund Herincx
Created Koroviev in Meister und Margarita (Holler)
Mutius in Timon of Athens (Oliver)
Eckbert in Blond Eckbert (Weir)
1954 Death of Leon Rains Bass-Baritone
Born 1 Oct 1870 New York Died 11 July 1954
Debut as Marquis d'Obigny in La Traviata (Verdi)
Teachers:- Oscar Saenger, Jacques Bouhy
Pupil :- Susan Harvard
Created High Priest in Nausikaa (Bungert)
Jagu in Manru (Paderewski)
High Priest in Odysseus' Tod (Bungert)
Fifth Jew in Salome (Strauss)
Count in Fruhlingsnacht (Schjelderup)
1961 Birth of Alistair Miles Bass
Born 11 July 1961 Middlesex
Debut as Trulove in Rakes Progress (Stravinsky) 1985
Teachers:- Bruce Boyce, Rudolf Piernay, Richard Standen
1962 Death of Rene Maison Tenor
Born 24 Nov 1895 Frameries Died 11 July 1962
Debut as Rodolfo in Boheme (Puccini) 1920
Pupil :- Ramon Vinay
1962 Death of Anne Bollinger Soprano
Born 22 Dec 1922 Lewiston Ohio Died 11 July 1862
Debut as Frasquita in Carmen (Bizet) 1 Nov 1949
Teachers:- Rosalie Miller, Lotte Lehmann
1973 Death of Russian composer Alexandr Mosolov in Moscow. b-Kiev, Ukraine, 29 JUL 1900.
1974 Birth of Turkish composer Musa GOCMEN in Ankara.