classical music JULY 6

Franz Anton Maichelbeck

  • 1580 Birth of German cantor and kapellmeister Johann Stobaeus in Graudenz. d-Konigsberg 11 SEP 1646.
  • 1632 Birth of composer Albert Schop
  • 1632 Birth of composer Pietro Reggio
  • 1678 Birth of composer Nicola Francesco Haym
  • 1702 Birth of composer Franz Anton Maichelbeck
  • 1739 Birth of German organist Friedrich Rust in Woorlitz. d-Dessau, 28 FEB 1796.
  • 1747 Birth of composer Coelestin Jungbauer
  • 1773 Birth of composer Wenzel Thomas Matiegka
  • 1800 Birth of composer Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti
  • 1837 Birth of composer Wlasyslaw Zelenski
  • 1851 Birth of composer Carl Lorens
  • 1852 Birth of composer John Albert Delany
  • 1864 Birth of Brazilian composer Alberto Nepomuceno, in Fortaleza. d-Rio de Janero, 16 OCT 1920.
  • 1865 Birth of French-Austrian composer and teacher Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Vienna. d-Geneva, 1 JUL 1950
  • 1877 Birth of composer David Stanley Smith
  • 1898 Birth of German composer Hans Eisler, in Leipzig
  • 1902 Death of Brazilian conductor Leopoldo Americo Miguez in Rio de Janero. b-Rio de Janero, 9 SEP 1850.
  • 1906 Birth of English composer Dame Elizabeth Lutyens, in London
  • 1908 Birth of composer Leonce Grass, Flemish singer and conductor
  • 1913 Grand Prix de Rome music award is given to 19 year-old French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), the first woman to be so honored in Paris.
  • 1914 Birth of composer Jens Rohiner
  • 1915 Death of French pianist and organist Paul Etienne Wachs in St Mande. b-Paris, 19 SEP 1851.
  • 1915 Birth of American soprano Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair NJ
  • 1915 Birth of composer Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist
  • 1917 Birth of composer Hugo Cole
  • 1918 Birth of Ameerican pianist Eugene List, in Phila PA. Was prof (Eastman School of Music)
  • 1919 Birth of American soprano Dorothy Kirsten The Classic RCA Performances
  • 1919 Birth of Swiss tenor Earnest Haefliger
  • 1927 Birth of composer Charles Whittenberg
  • 1929 Birth of composer Gerd Zacher
  • 1937 Birth of Russian pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
  • 1952 Birth of composer Stephen Hartke
  • 1963 FP of Leslie Bassett's "Variations for Orchestra," in Rome; Following the American premiere on October 22, 1965 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, this work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1966
  • 1968 FP of David Del Tredici's "Syzygy" (to a text by James Joyce), in New York City
  • 1973 Death of German conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, age 88, in Zürich. b-Breslau, 14 MAY 1885.
  • 1977 FP of Sir Michael Tippett's opera, "The Ice Break" at Covent Garden in London
  • 1979 Birth of composer Jeremy Spindler
  • 1986 FP of Aribert Reimann's "Troades", in Munich, Germany.
  • 1987 FP of Henri Pousseur's "Un Jardin de Passacaille", in Montpellier, France.
  • 1991 FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Ubu Rex", in Munich, Germany.
  • 1999 Death of Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, age 97, in Madrid
  • 2000 Death of composer Ludovit Rajter. b-30 JUL 1906.