September 20 in classical music history

BINCHOIS

1460 Death of Belgian composer Gilles Binchois in Soignies. b-Mons, c 1400.Search Amazon.com for Gilles Binchois

1696 Death of Italian organist and singer Matteo Simonelli in Rome. b-Rome, 1618.Search Amazon.com for Matteo Simonelli

1593 Birth of composer Gottfried Scheidt

1653 Birth of composer Benedict Schultheiss 1706 Birth of composer Franz Habermann

1767 Birth of Brazilian composer Jose Nunes GARCIA in Rio de Janeiro. d-Rio de Janeiro, 1830.Search Amazon.com for Jose Nunes GARCIA

1769 FP of GRÉTRY's "Le Tableau parlant" Paris (1769).Search Amazon.com for GRÉTRY "Le Tableau parlant

1777 Birth of composer Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba

1779 FP of BENDA's "Pygmalion" Gotha Search Amazon.com for BENDA Pygmalion

1795 Birth of German composer Charles ZEUNER in Eisleben. d-1857.Search Amazon.com for Charles ZEUNER

1799 FP of BENDA's "Philon und Theone," also known as "Almansor und Nadine" Gotha.

1800 Birth of American composer Benjamin Franklin WHITE nr Spartanburg, SC. d-Atlanta, Georgia, of injuries received in a fall, 5 DEC 1879.

1832 Birth of composer Johann Joseph Abert

1839 FP of LORTZING's "Caramo, oder Das Fischerstechen" Leipzig (1839).

1846 Birth of composer Agnes Tyrrell

1852 Birth of English-American Opera composer Henry HOUSELEY in Sutton-in-Ashfield. d. Denver, CO, Mar. 13, 1925.

1866 Birth of Swiss conductor Gustave DORET in Aigle. d-Lusanne, 19 APR 1943.

1868 Birth of American tenor George Hamlin. d.Denver, Mar. 13, 1925

1877 Birth of Belgian conductor and composer Armand MARSICK in Liege. d-Haine-St.Paul 30 APR 1959.Search Amazon.com for Armand MARSICK

1878 FP of Tchaikovsky's Valse-scherzo for violin and orchestra. Nicolai Rubinstein conducting and Stanislaw Barcewicz the soloist in Paris.Search Amazon.com for Tchaikovsky valse-scherzo

1879 Birth of composer Jacobo Conrad

1880 Birth of Italian composer and teacher Ildebrando PIZZETTI inParma. d-Rome, 13 FEB 1968.Search Amazon.com for Ildebrando PIZZETTI

1884 Birth of composer Piotr Rytel

1885 Birth of Canadian contralto Eva GAUTHIER in Ottawa. d-NYC, 26 DEC 1958. She took piano,harmony and voice lessons, and sang at St. Patrick's Church andOttawa's Notre Dame Basilica. After a successful concert début in1901, traveled to Europe. Originally sheperformed as a contralto, but expanded her range to include thesoprano and even coloratura registers, knownprimarily as a mezzo. Debut 1909, in Pavia, Italy, role ofMicaela in Carmen. Returned to singing in recitals with variousEuropean orchestras, mostly to ArtSongs. She settled in Greenwich Village, New York.Search Amazon.com for Eva GAUTHIER

1886 Death of English pianist and singer John Liptrot Hatton in Margate. b-Liverpool, 12 OCT 1809.Search Amazon.com for John Liptrot Hatton

1890 Birth of Canadian violinist Kathleen PARLOW in Alberta. d-Oakville, Ontario 19 AUG 1963.Search Amazon.com for Kathleen PARLOW

1897 Birth of composer Efim Golishev

1897 FP of Victor HERBERT's "The Idol's Eye" operetta, Troy, NY (1897).Search Amazon.com for The Idol's Eye

1900 Birth of Finnish composer Uuno KLAMI in Virolahti. d-Helsinki, 29 MAY 1961.Search Amazon.com for Uuno KLAMI

1900 Birth of composer Wilhelm Weismann

1901 Birth of composer Leo Justinus Kauffmann

1906 Birth of American composer David SHEINFELD in St. Louis, MO. d-San Francisco, CA 9 JUN 2001.Search Amazon.com for David SHEINFELD

1908 Death of Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate in Biarritz. b-Pampalona, 10 MAR 1844.Search Amazon.com for Pablo de Sarasate

1911 Birth of Dutch composer Jan MUL in Haarlem. d-Overveen, 30 DEC 1971.

1917 Birth of administrator Goeran Gentele, General Manager of the Metropolitan opera, he served only 18 days. d. July 18,1972.

1922 Birth of American concert pianist William KAPELL, in New York City. d-29 OCT 1953, plane crash King's Mountain nr San Francisco.Search Amazon.com for William KAPELL

1923 FP of F. Delius's incidental music for Flecker's Hassan at His Majesty's Theater in London. Orchestral excerpts on CD: Delius: Orchestral Works Search Amazon.com for F. Delius

1930 FP of Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5, in London. CD-Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches Op39

1935 Birth of composer Lubos Fiser

1938 Birth of English soprano Jane MANNING in Norwich. m-Composer Anthony Payne, 1966.Search Amazon.com for Jane_Manning

1945 Birth of American computer-music composer Laurie SPIEGEL in Chicago.Search Amazon.com for Laurie SPIEGEL

1954 FP of Igor Stravinsky's In Memoriam Dylan Thomas conducted by Robert Craft in Los Angeles, CA.

1955 American Debute of Elizabeth Schwarzkopf in San Francisco,in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.  CD-Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, Stich-Randall, Endelmann, Wächter; Karajan

1957 Death of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in Jarvenpaa, Finland, at age 91. b-Hameenlinna, 8 DEC 1865.Search Amazon.com for Jean Sibelius

1958 Birth of English saxophonist John HARLE.

1967 Death of French composer and organist Henri Mulet in Draguignan. b-Paris, 17 OCT 1878. Choirmaster of the basilica of Sacré-Coeur, Paris. Won first prize for cello in Delsart's class in 1893 and second prize for organ in 1897. Studied organ with Guilmant and Widor. Organist in many Paris churches. Professor at the Ecole Niedermeyer and at the Schola Cantorum, 1924 to 1931. Burned his manuscripts in 1937 and left Paris for Provence. He was cathedral organist in Draguignan until 1958. Lived in seclusion and died in a convent.Search Amazon.com for Henri Mulet

1968 FP of R. Strauss: "Capriccio" w/Donna Jeffery (s) [Countess], Melvin Hakola (b) [Count] Dale Moore (b) [Olivier] Andrij Dobrainsky (bs)[LaRoache], Richard Miller (t) [Flamand] 1968. Lake Erie Opera Theater, Cleveland, OH.Search Amazon.com for Strauss: "Capriccio

1975 FP of Jack Beeson's opera Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines in Kansas City, MO.Search Amazon.com for Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines