Chronography of Art (Aural)
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See also Art � Written
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See also Art � Visual
(painting, sculpture, engraving)
18/6/2020, Dame Vera Lynn, entertainer of the UK forces
during World
War Two, died (born 20/3/1917).
21/4/2016, The artist Prince, full name Prince Rogers Nelson, born
7/6/1958, died.
1/2/2016, Murray Louis, American
dancer and choreographer died (born 1926).
10/1/2016, David Bowie, born in 1947 as David Jones
in Brixton, London,
died of cancer two days after his 69th birthday.
25/1/2015, Greek operatic singer Demis Roussos, born 14/6/1946,
died. He sold 60 million albums, and was also known for his excess weight, 23
stone at its peak. Because of his weight be began to wear kaftans for his stage
performances, reverting to trousers when he began a weight loss programme in
1980.
10/6/2004, Ray Charles, pianist, singer and saxophonist, who
pioneered a fusion of gospel, jazz, blues and country music, died.
12/9/2003, Johnny Cash, US
musician, died (born 1932).
15/5/1998, Frank Sinatra
died.
21/10/1997, Elton John�s �Candle in
the Wind�, a tribute to Diana Princess of Wales, sold 31.8 million copies, the best seller ever.
1/8/1997, Sbviatoslav
Richter, Russian
pianist, died.
21/11/1995, Jim Eanes, musician, died (born 6/12/1923).
5/4/1994, US rock star Kurt Cobain, frontman of Nirvana, shot himself
aged 27.
4/12/1993, Frank Zappa, US rock musician, died.
20/6/1993, Benjamin Mascolo, singer, was born
8/4/1993, Marian Anderson,
US musician, died.
12/8/1992, US
composer John Cage
died, aged 79.
Jazz music
4/7/1992,
Joe Newman,
US Jazz
trumpeter, died (born 1922).
20/8/1988, Thaddeus Joseph Jones US jazz trumpeter, died.
2/4/1987, Buddy Rich, US jazz musician, died aged 69 (born
1917).
16/4/1984, Count Basie,
US jazz
pianist, died aged 79.
24/5/1974, Duke Ellington, jazz musician, died of lung cancer
aged 75.
6/7/1971, Louis Armstrong, US jazz musician, died
aged 69.
30/10/1959, Saxophonists Ronnie Scott and Pete King
opened Ronnie Scott�s Jazz Club in Gerrard Street, Soho, London.
25/3/1958, Tom Brown, US dixieland jazz trombonist, died aged 69.
4/3/1956, Kermit Driscoll, US jazz bassist, was born.
10/10/1920, Thelonious Monk,
US jazz
musician, was born (died 1982)
25/4/1918, Ella Fitzgerald, US jazz singer, was born (died 1996).
21/10/1917, Dizzie Gillespie, US jazz musician, was born (died 1993).
16/5/1913, Woody Herman, US jazz musician, was born (died 1987).
1912, The Blues, a style of Jazz
characterised by a slow melancholic tempo and flattened 3rd and
7ths, was developed from Black southern USA secular songs. After World War One jazz spread outwards
from the Deep South and New Orleans to reach New York, Chicago and other large
US cities by the 1920s. There was a �Jazz Age�, usually reckoned as being from 1919 to
1929 (from the Armistice to the Stock Market Crash).
1909, The term jazz,
for a form of ragtime dance, came into use. The term jazz music was first used in 1913. It was much played by Black
musicians in the southern USA
3/1/1902, Preston Jackson, US
�jazz trombonist,
was born in New Orleans, Louisiana (died 1983).
28/4/1992, French
composer Olivier
Messiaen died aged 83. Also this day English painter Francis Bacon
died in Madrid, aged 82.
17/4/1992, Hank Penny,
country music singer, died aged 73 of heart failure
24/3/1992, Jeremy Rosado,
US singer, was born.
15/2/1992, US composer William Schuman died, aged 81.
24/3/1991, Madonna was awarded an Oscar in Los Angeles.
14/10/1990, Leonard Bernstein, US composer, died aged 72.
25/6/1990, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer,
died aged� 77
29/9/1989, Georges Ulmer, French composer died (born
1919)
20/9/1989, Musical �Miss
Saigon� premiered in London.
6/1/1989, James Durbin, US pop singer, was born.
23/9/1988, Arwel Hughes, Welsh composer, died aged 79.
26/5/1988, Andrew Lloyd Webber�s musical Cats opened in
Moscow with a British and American cast.
17/3/1988, Grimes, Canadian
musician, was born.
5/2/1988, 3.8
million plastic noses were sold for the first ever Comic Relief Red Nose Day.
�15 million was raised.
1987, Garage music, a
New York variety of House Music, with
heavy Soul influence, became
popular. It had a strong vocal and lyrics element. It was named after Paradise
Garage, a Manhattan dance club.
14/2/1987, Bola Sete, guitarist, died
aged 63.
1986, House music became popular.
It featured drum machines and a heavy bass, alongside sparse reoetitive vocals
and a fast beat.
20/2/1986, Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer,
died aged 88.
1983,
Gothic Music, called simply Goth
from 1986, became popular. Its adherents adopted stark white and black face
make up, black clothing and heavy metallic jewellery, with mystical or
apocalyptic lyrics. A style of rock music derived from punk.
25/11/1983, Anton Dolin, English
ballet dancer, died aged 79.
24/7/1983, Georges Auric, French composer, died aged 84.
30/4/1983, George Balanchine, Russian
dance director, died aged 79.
8/3/1983, Sir William Walton, English composer, died on the island of Ischia.
1982, Thrash (Thrash Metal from 1985) became popular. It was a style of loud,
fast, harsh-sounding rock music combining Heavy Metal with Punk.
1982, Break Dancing, a style popular witrh
Black people in the USA, began. It comprised a loud heavy beat to which
energetic actrobatic dancing was performed. Body Popping was an alternative similar style originating in Los
Angeles in the late 1970s.
20/12/1982, Artur
Rubenstein, Polish-American
pianist, died aged 95.
7/11/1982, Salvador
Contreras, Mexican composer, died aged 71
6/11/1982, Sowelu,
Japanese pop singer, was born in Tokyo, Japan.
11/5/1981, Bob Marley, reggae musician, died of cancer
aged 36.
19/2/1981, Frank Merrik, composer, died aged 94.
23/1/1981, Samuel Barber, US composer, died aged 70.
4/1/1981, The Broadway show Frankenstein opened and closed
on this night, losing US$ 2 million.
8/12/1980. John Lennon, born 9/10/1940 in Liverpool
during an air raid, was shot dead in New York by Mark David
Chapman. See 26/5/1969.
21/6/1980, Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and
songwriter, died of a stroke aged 56
22/3/1980, Shannon Bex, US singer, was born
1979, Rap Music, Black music characterised by rapid rhythmic improvised
speech over an instrumental backing, first appeared.
30/12/1979, Richard Rodgers, US composer, died aged 77
15/8/1979, Peter Shukoff, US comedian and musician, was
born.
14/1/1979, John Reuben, American singer, was born in
Columbus, Ohio.
9/1/1979, Avery Claflin, composer, died aged 80.
1/3/1978, Charlie Chaplin�s coffin was stolen from a
cemetery in Switzerland.
25/12/1977, Charlie
Chaplin
died in Switzerland,
aged 88.
13/9/1977, Leopold Stokowski, organist and conductor,
died in Nether Wallop, Hampshire.
6/9/1977, Guido Pannain, composer, died aged 85.
20/8/1977. Julius, or Groucho Marx, US comedian of the
famous Marx Brothers, died in Los
Angeles.
18/8/1977, Regine Chassagne, Canadian musician, was born
in Montreal, Quebec
4/12/1976. Death of composer
Benjamin
Britten, aged 63.
23/2/1976, The painter
L S (Lawrence Stephen) Lowry, noted
for his matchstick people, died in Glossop, Derbyshire.
1975, The Salsa, a Latin American dance, appeared.
9/8/1975. Death of the Russian
composer Dmitri Shostakovitch.
27/3/1975, Arthur Bliss, English
composer, died aged 83.
19/2/1975, Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola died in Florence aged 71.
10/11/1974, Niko Hurme, Finnish musician, was born in
Karkkila, Finland.
9/9/1974, Mathias Farm, guitarist was born in Orebro,
Sweden.
6/4/1974, Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo.
1973, Heavy Metal music appeared; a loud
vigorous rock music with electronically-amplified instruments anfd a fast beat.
10/11/1973, Nick Lachey, musician, was born.
22/10/1973, Pablo Casals, Spanish
composer, died aged 96.
4/9/1973. The Rolling
Stones played in London for the first time in 2 � years, and then attended
a party at Buckingham Palace which Mick Jagger described as �very dull�.
6/7/1973, Otto Klemperer, Jewish-German
composer, died aged 88.
29/11/1972, Carl W. Stalling, US
composer, died aged 81.
10/10/1972, Sir John Betjeman,
born 28/8/1906, was appointed Poet Laureate.
29/8/1972, Amanda
Meta Marshall, Canadian pop-rock singer, was born.
8/8/1972, The musical Jesus Christ Superstar premiered at the
Palace Theatre, London.
24/4/1972, Chad
Ginsburg, US musician, was born.
21/4/1972, Severina Vuckovic,
Croatian singer, was born.
1971, Punk Rock appeared.
6/4/1971. Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer, died in New York City aged 88.
16/11/1970, Laurent Wold (Debuire), French
musician, was born.
18/9/1970, Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died of a drugs overdose.
7/5/1970, Carlos Estrada, composer, died aged 60.
25/11/1969, John Lennon returned his MBE to Buckingham
Palace, in protest at British involvement in the Biafra civil war in Nigeria.
31/8/1969, Bob Dylan
starred in a pop festival on the Isle of Wight, drawing in 150,000 fans.
24/5/1969. The Black
and White Minstrel Show at London�s
Victoria Palace closed after 4,354 performances over seven years. It was the
longest running musical show in Britain.
16/4/1969. Desmond Dekker became the first Jamaican artist to top the UK charts with The Israelites.
15/4/1969, The Woodstock music
festival began in Bethel, New York.
2/4/1969, Jim Morrison, of pop group �The Doors� was
arrested in the USA.
7/2/1969, Marvin
Gaye�s I Heard It Through The
Grapevine was released.
1968, Reggae Music, from Jamaica, began to become popular. Also about
this time Ska Music, also Jamaican
in origin, appeared. By 1990 this genre had given rise to Ragga, incorporating faster-beat styles from hip-hop and techno.
25/6/1968. Comedian
Tony Hancock
killed himself in a hotel bathroom in Sydney, Australia.
23/2/1968, Tom Jones released
his song Delilah.
29/12/1967, Paul Whiteman,
US composer, died aged 77.
10/11/1967, The Moody Blue�s single, Nights in White Satin was released.
29/5/1967, Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, died aged
69.
5/4/1967, Mischa Elman, Russian-US violinist, died in
New York (born 20/1/1891 in Talnoye, Russia).
11/3/1967, Geraldine Farrar, US opera singer, died in
Ridgefield, Connecticut (born in Melrose, Massachusetts, 28/2/1882).
The Beatles 1962-74
24/12/1974. The Beatles� legal partnership was
formally dissolved.
8/5/1970. The Beatles� final album, Let It Be, was released.
9/4/1970, The Beatles pop group disbanded.
20/3/1969. The Beatle John Lennon married Yoko Ono in
Gibraltar.
12/3/1969, Beatle Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone
Registry Office, London.
30/1/1969. The Beatles performed together for the last
time.
30/8/1968, The single Hey Jude was released by The Beatles.
5/12/1967. The Beatles opened their Apple store on
Baker Street.
27/8/1967, Brian Epstein, who managed The
Beatles rise to rock stardom, died in a swimming pool accident.
17/2/1967, The Beatles� hit, Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever single was released.
28/2/1966, The Cavern Club, where The Beatles first played,
went into liquidation.
26/10/1965. The Beatles
went to Buckingham Palace to be presented with their MBE�s.
12/6/1965.
The
Beatles were made MBEs in the Queen�s birthday honours.� A
number of other holders of the medal returned theirs in disgust.
1/2/1964. EMI�s managing director
announced that The Beatles were making over �500,000 a
month.
23/8/1963, The
Beatles single She Loves You was released.
3/8/1963.
The
Beatles played in The Cavern, Liverpool,
for the last time.
26/12/1962. The Beatles, an obscure group from
Liverpool, just made no.17 in the charts with their single Love Me Do.
9/5/1962, The Beatles signed a recording contract
with EMI�s Parlophone label.
21/1/1962 The
Beatles and Cliff Richard were making the charts.
1/1/1962. The
Beatles had their first audition with a record company in London.
Their manager, Brian
Epstein, was told, guitar groups are out, this group won�t make it,
go back to Liverpool.
18/6/1942, Paul McCartney
of The
Beatles pop group was born in
Liverpool.
The Rolling Stones 1962-69
6/12/1969. A free concert given by the Rolling
Stones, at Altamont, California, ended in tragedy when Hell�s Angels stabbed a man to death.
24/5/1968,
The Rolling
Stones hit,
Jumpin� Jack Flash was released.
1/11/1967, Rolling Stone Magazine started
publication, the first Rock�n�roll periodical in the USA.
10/8/1964. An emergency casualty station had to be set
up in Brighton to deal with a constant stream of hysterical girls overcome
during a performance of the Rolling Stones.
16/7/1964, The Rolling Stones had their first UK No.1 hit� with It�s
All Over Now.
3/6/1964,
The
Rolling Stones began their first US tour.
17/4/1964,
The
Rolling Stones released their first LP.
21/7/1962. The
Rolling Stones made their first appearance at the Marquee Club in
London.
26/7/1943, Mick Jagger,
English rock singer (The Rolling Stones), was born as Michael
Philip Jagger in Dartford
1/6/1966. Folk music fans at the Albert Hall booed Bob
Dylan for performing with an electric guitar.
9/2/1966, Sophie Tucker, last of the �red hot mamas�,
died.
1/2/1966, The silent film comedian Buster Keaton died.
2/3/1965, The Sound of Music went on release in the USA. It was an instant
hit.
17/5/1964, Bob Dylan made his
first major London appearance, at the Royal Albert Hall.
23/4/1964, Gianandrea Noseda,
Italian pianist, was born.
15/3/1964, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton married in Montreal.
22/6/1963, Maria Tanase,
Romanian folk singer, died aged 49.
16/4/1963, Jimmy Osmond,
US singer, was born.
11/4/1963, Nigel Pulsford,
English guitarist, was born.
7/12/1962, Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer, died
aged 67.
1961, Soul Music, of Black origin, combining
Rhythm and Blues with Gospel Music, appeared.
11/11/1961, Jan Kuehnemund, US guitarist,
was born.
9/11/1961, Jill Dando, British journalist and BBC
television presenter, was born in Weston-super-Mare (murdered 1999).
11/10/1961, Chico Marx, the piano-playing member of the Marx Brothers comedy team, died.
14/7/1961, Boy George was born.
23/8/1960, Oscar Hammerstein, US theatrical producer,
died aged 65.
14/8/1960, Sarah Brightman, English
singer, was born in Berkhamstead,
Hertfordshire.
12/4/1960, The musician
Ray Charles
won Best Male Vocalist Grammy award.
15/2/1960, Mikey Craig, rock bassist, was born.
1959, The Barbie Doll was introduced at the annual Toy Fair in New York.
2/6/1959, Lydia Lunch, US singer, was born.
28/5/1959, The Mermaid
Theatre opened in the City of London.
30/3/1959, Sabine Meyer, German clarinet player, was
born.
18/2/1959, Erich Zeisl, US composer, born 18/5/1905,
died.
3/2/1959, Buddy
Holly, US musician, was killed in an air crash in Iowa.
9/12/1958, Rikk Agnew, US guitarist, was born in Newport
Beach, California.
29/9/1958, Robert Mason Carlisle, US singer, was born.
26/8/1958, Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, died
aged 85.
16/8/1958, Madonna, US singer, was born.
8/8/1958. Columbia Records signed up
a 17-year-old singer called Cliff
Richard.
25/7/1958, Thurston Moore,
US guitarist, was born in Coral Gables, Florida.
7/6/1958, Prince, American singer,
was born.
28/3/1958, William Christopher Handy, US composer, died
aged 84.
Elvis
Presley
20/12/1957.
At the height of his career, Elvis Presley received his call-up
papers.
2/11/1957,
Elvis Presley set a record with 8 simultaneous
UK top 30 entries.
19/3/1957, Elvis Presley paid the US$ 1,000 deposit on a
mansion called Graceland, being sold by Mrs Ruth Brown-Moore.
13/1/1957, Elvis Presley recorded All Shook Up in a Hollywood studio.
6/4/1956, Paramount Pictures signed Elvis
for a three-film, five-year contract worth $450,000.
10/2/1956, Elvis Presley walked into a
recording studio and made his first record, Heartbreak
Hotel.
13/5/1955, A riot took place at an Elvis
Presley concert in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
21/10/1957, Steve Lukather,
US singer, was born.
20/9/1957 Jean Sibelius, composer,
died.
13/9/1957. The Mousetrap became Britain�s longest running play, reaching its
1,998th performance.
27/11/1955, Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer, died aged 63.
25/11/1955, Bruno Tonioli, Italian dancer, was born.
29/10/1955, Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1,
originally completed in 1948, was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic
Orchestra.
8/10/1955, Lonnie Pitchford, US blues musician, was born
in Lexington, Mississipi (died 1998)
4/5/1955, Georges Enescu, Romanian composer and
violinist, died in Paris, France (born 19/8/1881 in Liveni, Romania.
12/3/1955, Saxophonist Charles Parker died.
24/10/1954, Jozef Raz, Slovak musician and singer, was
born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
5/10/1954, Bob Geldof, rock musician and charity
fundraiser, was born in Dublin.
10/9/1954, Painter Andre Derain
died in Chambourcy, France, aged 74.
25/8/1954, Elvis Costello, English musician, was born.
19/5/1954, Charles Ives, US composer died (born 1874).
9/11/1953. Welsh poet Dylan Marlais Thomas, born in Swansea on
27/10/1914, died in New York City aged 39 after falling into an
alcoholic coma. He had drunk 18 stiff whiskies. His major work, Under Milk Wood, was broadcast on radio
in 1954.
15/10/1953 Youth culture was yet to arrive, as was the word
�teenager�. Top of the pop charts were Mantovani,
Doris Day, and Dean Martin.
17/7/1953, Maude Adams, US actress (born 11/11/1872)
died.
5/3/1953. Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer,
died.
27/8/1952, Harvey Corbett, US architect,
died in New York city.
5/3/1952, Vladimir Scherbachov, composer, died aged 63.
21/1/1952, Billy Ocean, musician,
was born.
15/9/1951, Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and
composer, died aged 56
10/9/1951, Giuseppe Mule, Italian composer, died aged 66
6/9/1951, Melih Kibar, Turkish composer, was born (died
2005).
16/8/1951, Louis Jouvet, French theatre director., died.
6/3/1951, Ivor
Novello, Welsh composer, died aged 58.
31/1/1951, Phil
Collins, rock musician, was born.
17/6/1950, Phoebe Snow, US musician, was born.
26/2/1950, Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and
singer, died aged 79.
4/2/1950, Philip Ehart, rock drummer, was born.
1949, Sreel bands, from
Trinidad, were becoming popular.
24/9/1949, Pierre Breville, composer, died aged 88.
23/9/1949, Bruce Springsteen, US musician, was born.
22/9/1949, David Coverdale, English rock musician, was
born.
8/9/1949, Richard
Strauss, composer,
died.
31/12/1948, Donna Summer, US singer, was born.
22/3/1948, Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer, was
born.
31/12/1947, Burton Cummings, musician, was born.
24/8/1947, The Edinburgh International Festival of Music and
Drama was launched. It was an antidote
to the prevailing austerity.
25/3/1947. Elton John, British musician,
was born in Pinner, London, as Reginald Kenneth Dwight.
8/1/1947. David Bowie, British musician and rock star,
was born in London as David Jones.
14/6/1946. Demis Roussos, Greek operatic singer, was born; see 25/1/2015.
30/11/1945, Roger Glove, Welsh bass
player songwriter, was born.
23/10/1945, Kim Larsen, rock musician,
was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
26/9/1945. Bela Bartok, composer,
died.
21/5/1945, Herbert Adams, US sculptor (born 28/1/1858)
died.
10/2/1945, Juan de Hernandez, composer, died aged 63.
10/1/1945, Rod Stewart, British rock
singer, was born in London.
24/6/1944, Rio Gebhardt, German composer, died aged 36
28/1/1944, John Tavener, English composer,
was born (died 2013)
24/1/1944, Klaus Nomi, German singer was born (died
1983).
1/1/1944, Sir Edwin Lutyens, English architect, designer of The Cenotaph in London
and planner of New Delhi, died in London.
30/11/1943, Oscar Harris, Surinamese singer, was born.
28/4/1943, Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer, died in Beverley Hills, California.
7/3/1943, Carolyn Carlson, American ballet dancer, was
born.
4/3/1942, Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, died aged
62.
5/11/1941, Art Garfunkel, of Simon and Garfunkel, was
born in New York.
20/2/1941, Buffy Sainte-Marie, musician was born in
Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada
21/1/1941, Placido Domingo,
Spanish operatic tenor, was born
in Madrid.
20/1/1941, Pierre Lalonde,
Canadian singer, was born.
9/10/1940. John Lennon, songwriter and musician in The Beatles pop group, was born in
Liverpool.� He was the son of a ship�s
steward.
7/7/1940, Ringo Starr, drummer in the
Beatles pop group, was born Liverpool as Richard Starkey.
8/6/1940, Nancy Sinatra, daughter of singer Frank Sinatra,
was born.
3/8/1939, Eugust Enna, composer, died aged 80.
13/7/1939. Frank Sinatra
made his first record, �From the Bottom of my Heart� with the Harry James band.
21/4/1939, Edna Savage,
UK singer, was born
(died 31/12/2000).
10/4/1939, Glen Miller
recorded Little Brown Jug.
2/4/1939, Marvin Gaye,
soul singer, was born.
1/3/1939. Leo
Brouwer, composer and guitarist, was born in
Havana, Cuba
20/12/1938, John Harbison,
composer, was born in Orange, New Jersey.
2/8/1938, Bjarni
Thorsteinsson, Icelandic composer, died aged 76
29/4/1938, Klaus Voormann,
rock bassist, was born in Berlin, Germany
17/3/1938. Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev born in Irkutsk, Siberia.
16/2/1938, John Corigliano, US composer,
was born.
11/7/1937, US composer George Gershwin died, aged 38.
11/5/1937, Viliam Figus,
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31/1/1937, Philip Glass,
US composer, was born.
8/1/1937, Shirley Bassey, British singer and
entertainer, was born in Cardiff, Wales.
15/3/1936, Howard Greenfield, songwriter, was born in
Brooklyn, New York (died 1986)
1935,
The Conga dance, Latin American but
of Black origin, became popular.
1934, The opera house at Glyndebourne, East Sussex, England, was
established by John Christie (1882-1962).
24/11/1934, Alfred Schnittke, German composer,
was born (died 1998).
13/10/1934, Nana Mouskouri, singer, was born in Chania,
Crete, Greece.
10/6/1934, British composer
Frederick
Delius died in France.
25/5/1934. composer
Gustav Holst,
who wrote The Planets, died aged 59.
He was buried in Chichester Cathedral.
24/4/1934, Laurens Hammond filed a patent for an
"electrical musical instrument" known today as the Hammond organ.
23/2/1934. Sir Edward Elgar, English composer,
(born 2/6/1857), died of pneumonia in Worcester. On 10/11/1910 he conducted the
first performance of his violin concerto, played by Fritz Kreisler, at the Queen�s
Hall, London Applause was described as worthy of the Battle of Trafalgar.
18/2/1934, Yoko Ono, the widow of Jon Lennon, was born.
4/5/1933, James Brown, musician, was born.
16/10/1932, Henry Lewis, US musician, was born.
13/9/1932, Bengt Hallberg, Swedish pianist and composer,
was born.
29/5/1932, Karl Ridderbusch, German musician, was born.
6/3/1932, John Philip Sousa, composer,
died.
3/10/1931. Death of
the Danish composer Carl Nielsen.
13/4/1931, Anita Cerquetti,
Italian soprano, was born (died 2014).
2/11/1929, The first News Theatre Cinema opened in New York,
the Embassy.
12/10/1929, Magnus Magnusson, British
writer and TV presenter, was born in Reykjavik, Iceland.
29/9/1929, Lata Mangeshkar, musician, was born.
3/2/1929, Val Doonican, singer, was born.
30/7/1929, Christine
McGuire, American singer, was born.
18/11/1928, Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer, was born in
Tbilisi (died 1994)
26/8/1928, Actress Barbara Stanwyck and vaudeville
comedian Frank Fay were married in St. Louis.
12/8/1928, Leos Janacek, Czech composer, died aged 74.
1927,
First instance of tap dancing.
1927,
The first all-electric jukeboxes
were produced in Chicago. Mass production of them began in 1934 and by 1939 there
were 350,000 of them in US bars and restaurants.
14/9/1927, US dancer Isadora Duncan,
aged 49, was strangled to death when her long scarf became tangled in the rear
wheel of a sports car.
13/8/1927, Hermann� Albert,
German
musicologist, died in Stuttgart (born 25/3/1871, Stuttgart).
19/6/1927, Karel Kupka, Czech composer, was born in
Rychvald.
29/11/1924, The composer Puccini died in Brussels.
11/6/1924, Th�odore Dubois, French composer,
died aged 86.
4/3/1924, Happy Birthday to You, a song written by
two US teachers, the sisters Patty and Mildred Hill, first appeared in print in
a book by Robert H Coleman.
2/2/1924, Elfi von
Dassanowsky, singer and pianist, was born in Vienna, Austria (died
2007)
6/12/1923, Jim Eanes, musician, was born (died
21/11/1995).
28/5/1923, Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian
composer, was born (died 2006).
3/1/1922, Siegmund Nissel, German musician, was born.
16/12/1921, French composer
and organist Camille
Saint-Saens died aged 86.
9/9/1921, Charlie Chaplin arrived at Waterloo
Station, London, on
the boat train from Southampton, to a rapturous welcome. He was staying at the
Ritz Hotel, socially a million miles from his childhood days in Lambeth.
2/8/1921. Death of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, whose funeral in
Naples was attended by 50,000 people.
26/5/1921, Hal David, musician, was born.
20/11/1920, Armin Schibler, Swiss composer, was born.
18/5/1919, Margot Fonteyne, English ballerina, was born
(died 1991).
16/5/1919. Waldzin Valentino Liberace was born in
Wisconsin. His father wanted him to be an undertaker.
20/1/1919, Stepan Lucky, composer, was born.
1918, The Shimmy Dance became fashionable. It was a type of foxtrot, and
remained popular through the 1920s.
16/10/1918, Felix Arndt, composer, died aged 29.
17/5/1918, Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer, was born
(died 1999)
25/3/1918, Claude Debussy, French composer,
died of cancer in London aged 55.
18/11/1917, Pedro Infante, Mexican actor
and singer, was born.
17/11/1917, Death of the sculptor
Auguste
Rodin, aged 77.
13/9/1917, Robert Ward, American composer, was born (died
2013)
20/3/1917. Dame Vera Lynn
was born.
22/4/1916, Yehudi Menuhin,
US violinist, was born.
1915, The Foxtrot dance was
becoming popular in the USA.
24/10/1915, Tito Gobbi,
Italian
baritone singer, was born (died 1984)
3/2/1915, Richard Bales, composer, was born.
22/11/1913, Benjamin Britten, English
composer, was born in Lowestoft,
Suffolk.
24/3/1913, The Palace Theater, New York, opened on Broadway,
47th Street.
5/9/1912, Composer
John Cage
was born
27/8/1912, Tarzan of the
Apes, by Edgar
Rice Burroughs, first went into print as a magazine serial.
14/7/1912, Woody Guthrie, US folk
singer, was born in Oklahoma.
1/7/1912,
The first Royal Command Performance took place at the Palace Theatre, London,
watched by King
George V and Queen Mary.
1911, The Quickstep (ballroom) Dance became popular.
18/5/1911, The composer
Gustav
Mahler died of heart disease in Austria,
aged 51.
26/10/1911, Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer, was born.
23/6/1910, Jean Anouilh, French dramatist, was born (died
1987).
25/3/1910, Magda Olivero, Italian opera soprano, was born
in Saluzzo (died 2014)
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6/10/1909, Dudley Buck, US composer, died (born
10/3/1839).
25/4/1909, Jaroslav Doubrava, composer, was born in
Chrudim, Czech Republic (died 1960)
21/6/1908, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian
composer, died at Lyubensk.
24/1/1908, Edward MacDowell, US composer, died (born
18/12/1861).
4/9/1907, Edward Greig, Norwegian composer, died in Bergen.
22/1/1907, In London, a strike by music hall artists
disrupted theatre performances.
26/8/1906, Eugen Gura, German singer, died (born 1824).
6/4/1906, The Poet Laureate,
John Betjeman, was born in London.
8/12/1905, Charles Cushing, American composer, was born
in Oakland, California (died 1982)
2/12/1905, Osvaldo Pugliese, Argentine composer, was born
in Buenos Aires, Argentina (died 1995)
12/9/1905, Boris Arapov,
Russian composer, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia (died 1992)
29/4/1905, Rudolf Schwartz, Viennese conductor who
survived the Nazi concentration camps to become conductor of the BBC Symphony
orchestra, was born.
15/2/1905, Harold Arlen, musician,
was born in New York.
20/11/1904, Alexandra Danilova, Russian
ballerina, was born in Petergof, Russia (died 1997)
27/7/1904, Anton Dolin, English ballet dancer, was born
in Sussex.
5/7/1904, The composer
Edward Elgar
was knighted.
1/5/1904. The Czech composer
Antonin
Dvorak died.
9/1/1904, George Balanchine, ballet choreographer, was
born (died 1983).
26/10/1903, Victorin Joncieres, French composer, died
(born 12/4/1839).
11/4/1902, Fred Gaisberg, of the Gramophone Company, made
the first recordings of Caruso.
29/3/1902, Sir William Walton, English composer, was born in Oldham, Lancashire, to
musical parents.
6/1/1902, Mark Brunswick, composer, was born.
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1901, The Pianola was coined as the brand name of a device that could be
attached to a piano and automatically play tunes. It became obsolete when
gramophone records were available.
2/12/1901, Staf Nees, Flemish composer, was born in
Mechelen, Belgium (died 1965)
22/10/1901, Frederic Archer, 63, English-born American
composer and organist, died aged 63.
16/8/1901, Edmond Audran, French composer, died in Paris
(born in Lyons 11/4/1842).
23/5/1901, Edward Rubbra, composer, was born (died 1986)
8/3/1901, Peter Benoit, composer, died in Antwerp (born
in Flanders 17/8/1834).
1/3/1901, Tommy Jarrell, US fiddler and banjo player who
attained nationwide recognition in the 1960s, was born.
27/1/1901, The Italian composer
Giuseppe
Verdi died in Milan aged 87. His works included La Traviata
and Il Travatore.
8/11/1900, Georges Lonque, Belgian composer, was born in
Ghent, Belgium
21/4/1900, Charles Beecher, US composer, died in
Georgetown, Massachusetts (born in Litchfield, Connecticut 7/10/1815).
2/3/1900, Kurt Weill, German-US composer, was born.
26/1/1900, Karl Ristenpart, conductor of the Chamber
Orchestra of the Saar, was born in Kiel (died 1967)
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21/12/1899, Charles Lamoureux, French violinist, died
(born 28/9/1834).
13/8/1899, Birth of
film director Alfred Hitchcock.� He was born in Leytonstone, London, the son
of a greengrocer.
3/6/1899, Johann Strauss
the Younger, Austrian composer,
violinist, and conductor, who wrote The Blue Danube waltz,
died in Vienna.
9/1/1898, Gracie Fields, singer and music hall star, was
born in Rochdale, Lancashire, as Gracie Stansfield.
20/9/1897, Karel Bendl, Bohemian composer, died in Prague
(born in Prague 16/4/1838).
10/5/1897, William Best, English organist, died in
Liverpool (born 13/8/1826 in Carlisle).
3/4/1897, Johannes Brahms,
German composer, died at his home
in Vienna, aged 64.
28/11/1895, Jose Iturbi,
Spanish pianist and conductor, was born in Valencia, Spain (died 1980).
25/10/1895, Sir Charles Halle,
English pianist and conductor, died (born 11/4/1819).
6/10/1895 Sir Henry Wood�s
promenade concerts began at
Queen�s Hall, London.
13/7/1895, John Carrodus,
violinist, died (born 20/1/1836)
6/3/1895, Henry
Lazarus, British clarinettist, died (born
1/1/1815).
10/1/1895, Benjamin Godard, French
composer, died (born 18/8/1849).
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13/9/1894, French composer Alexis Chabrier
died (born 18/1/1841).
13/2/1894, Hans Bulow, German pianist,
died (born 8/1/1830).
9/2/1894, Adolphe Saxe, the Belgian musical instrument
maker who invented the Saxophone,
died in Paris.
6/11/1893. Composer
Peter Illich
Tchaikovsky, born.7/5/1840, died of cholera,
after drinking infected water.
9/10/1893, Sir George Elvey, composer, died (born
27/3/1816)
28/1/1893, Julius Eichberg, German composer, died (born
13/6/1824).
24/10/1892, Robert Franz, German composer, died (born� 28/6/1815).
24/9/1892, Patrick Gilmore, US bandmaster, died (born
1829).
23/4/1892, Edouard Lalo, French composer, died.
16/1/1891, Clement Delibes, French composer, died (born
21/2/1836).
28/12/1891, Alfred Cellier, English composer, died (born
1/12/1844).
5/5/1891, New York�s Carnegie
Hall opened on west 57th Street. Until 1962 it was the city�s premier
concert hall.
5/1/1891, Emma Abbot, US opera singer, died in Salt Lake
City.
21/12/1890, Niels Gade, Danish composer, died (born
22/2/1817).
8/11/1890, Cesar Franck, French composer, died (born
10/12/1822).
28/5/1890, Victor Neszler, German composer, died.
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24/11/1889, Frederic Clay, English composer, died (born
3/8/1838).
10/10/1889, Adolf von
Henselt, German composer, died (12/5/1814).
7/7/1889, Giovanni Bottesini, Italian composer, died in
Parma (born in Lombardy 24/12/1823).
31/1/1889, Josef Gung�l,
Hungarian composer, died (born 1/12/1810).
26/3/1888,
Francis Bache,
composer, died in London (born 14.9/1833 in Birmingham)
22/2/1888,
Jean Alard,
French violinist, died in Paris (born 8/5/1815 in Bayonne).
14/1/1888, Stephen Heller,
Austrian composer, died (born 15/5/1815)
28/2/1887, Alexander Borodin, Russian composer,
died in St Petersburg.
1886,
The Glockenspeil was invented by Auguste
Mustel,
31/7/1886, Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer,
died aged 74, in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
5/6/1885, Sir Julius Benedict, composer, died in London
(born in Stuttgart 27/11/1804).
12/5/1885, Ferdinand Hiller, German composer, died (born
24/10/1811).
31/3/1885, Franz Abt, German composer, (born 22/12/1819
in Eilenburg, Saxony) died in Weisbaden.
27/11/1884, Fanny Essler, Austrian dancer, died (born
23/6/1810).
12/5/1884, Bohemian composer
Bedrich
Smetana died in an asylum for the insane.
29/4/1884, Sir Michael Costa, British composer, died
(born 14/2/1808).
18/2/1883, Funeral of the composer
Wagner
held at Bayreuth.
24/1/1883, Friedrich Flotow, German composer, died (born
27/4/1812).
28/3/1881, Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer, died of chronic alcoholism aged 42.
25/3/1881, Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer,
was born.
5/10/1880, Jacques Offenbach, composer,
died in Paris.
17/8/1880, Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist, died (born
5/2/1810).
10/5/1880, Sir John Goss, English composer, died (born
27/12/1800).
6/7/1879, Henry Smart, English organist, died (born
26/10/1813).
29/4/1879, Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor, born.
27/7/1877, Ernst von
Dohnanyi, Hungarian pianist (died New York, 9/2/1960) was born in
Pozsony, Hungary.
4/12/1876,
Hermann
Goetz, German composer, died (born 17/12/1840).
29/8/1876, Felicien David,
French composer, died (born 13/4/1810).
27/8/1876, Eugene Fromentin,
French painter, died (born 1820).
17/8/1876, Wagner�s opera Gotterdammerung premiered at Bayreuth.
28/6/1876, August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian musician, died
in Vienna (born 1816).
13/3/1876, Joseph von Fuhrich, Austrian painter, died
(born 9/2/1800).
3/6/1875, Georges Bizet,
French composer of the opera Carmen,
died in Bougival near Paris.
7/3/1875, Maurice Ravel, French composer,
was born in Ciboure in the Basque Country.
15/2/1875, Sir William Bennett, English composer, died in
St Johns Wood, London (born in Sheffield 13/4/1816).
21/9/1874, Gustav Holst, English composer,
who wrote The Planets, was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, as Gustavus
Theodore von Holst, of Swedish origin.
1/4/1873, Sergei Rachmaninov, last of the great Russian
romantic composers, was born in Oneg,
Nijni Novgorod. He later settled in the USA.
25/2/1873, Enrico Caruso,
Italian operatic tenor, was born in Naples.
11/8/1872, Lowell Mason, US musician, died.
22/5/1872, In Germany, the foundation stone of the Bayreuth Theatre was laid. It was built
specially for the performance of Wagner�s works.
26/3/1871, Francois Fetis, Belgian composer, died (born
25/3/1784)
20/10/1870, Michael Balfe, Irish composer, died (born in
Dublin 13/5/1808).
10/3/1870, Ignaz Moschelles, Bohemian pianist, died (born
30/5/1794).
29/11/1869, Giulia Grisi, Italian opera singer, died (born
1811).
20/4/1869, Johann Lowe,
German composer, died (30/11/1796).
8/3/1869, French composer
Berlioz
died in Paris.
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28/11/1868, Frantisek Drdla, Czech composer, was born
11/8/1868, Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer, died
(born 15/9/1815).
20/9/1867, Michael Lacy, Irish musician, died in London.
13/11/1866, Rossini, Italian composer, died in Passy, France, aged 76.
8/12/1865, Jean Sibelius, Finnish
composer, was born in Hameenlinna, the
son of a surgeon.
8/10/1865, Heinrich Ernst, German composer,
died (born 1814).
1/10/1865, Paul Dukas, French composer, was born in
Paris, France (died17/5/1935 in Paris).
10/8/1865, Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, was
born.
6/7/1865, Emile Jacques Dalcroze, inventor of
eurhythmics dancing, was born.
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11/6/1864, Richard Strauss, composer,
was born in Munich, Germany
18/5/1864, Milton Aborn, US operatic singer, was born
(died 12/11/1933).
13/1/1864, Stephen Foster, musician, died in New York
(born 4/7/1926)
7/12/1863, Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer,
was born.
31/7/1863, Richard Aldrich, US music critic, was born
(died 1937).
2/5/1863, Giacomo Meyebeer, German composer, died (born
5/9/1791).
22/8/1862, Composer Claude Debussy was born in St Germain en Laye, France.
29/1/1862, Frederick Delius, English
composer, born in Bradford, Yorkshire.
18/12/1861, Edward MacDowell, US composer, was born (died
24/1/1908).
8/8/1861, Cecile Chaminade, French composer, was born.
18/12/1860, Edward MacDowell, US composer,
was born in New York City.
7/7/1860, Gustav Mahler, composer,
was born in Kalischt, Bohemia.
23/6/1860, On St John�s Eve, Mussorgsky completed St
John�s Night on a Bare Mountain. After his death Rimsky Korsakov edited it and
removed St John�s from the title.
14/3/1860, Louis Jullien, musician, died (born 23/4/1812)
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19/5/1859, Dame Nellie Melba, Australian
singer, was born.
22/12/1858, Composer Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy.
16/4/1858, Johann Cramer, English composer, died (born
24/2/1771).
23/1/1858, Luigi Lablache, French-Italian singer, died
(born 6/12/1794).
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10/10/1857, Thomas Crawford, US sculptor, died (born
22/3/1814).
16/9/1857, The tune Jingle Bells by James Pierpoint was copyrighted
under its original title One Horse Open
Sleigh. In 1965 it became the first song to be broadcast from space.
15/7/1857, Karl Czerny,
Austrian composer, died (born 21/2/1791).
2/6/1857, Sir Edward Elgar, British
composer, was born in Broadheath, near
Worcester, the son of a music seller and organist.
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29/7/1856, Robert Schumann, German composer,
died in an asylum near Bonn.
3/5/1856, Adolphe Adam, French composer
(born 24/7/1803) died.
17/2/1856, John Braham, English vocalist, died.
30/4/1855, Sir Henry Bishop, composer, died (born in
London 18/11/1786).
6/11/1854, John Philip Sousa, composer,
inventor of the sousaphone (a sort of large tuba), was born.
1/11/1852, Dame Emma Albani, Canadian
singer (died 3/4/1930) was born.
30/9/1852, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, was born.
29/1/1852, Frederic Cowen,
English composer, was born.
8/10/1851, George Lee, English musician, died.
11/3/1851, Verdi�s opera Rigoletto was
first performed, in Venice.
21/1/1851, Gustav Lortzing, German composer, died.
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7/5/1850, Anton Seidl, Hungarian operatic conductor, was
born (died 28/3/1898).
14/12/1849, Konradin Kreutzer, German composer, died (born
22/11/1780).
17/10/1849, Frederic Chopin,
born 1/3/1810 near Warsaw, Poland, died aged 39 of tuberculosis in Paris.
25/9/1849, Johann Strauss the Elder died, aged 45, of
scarlet fever.
18/8/1849, Benjamin Godard, French composer, was born
(died 10/1/1895).
12/6/1849, Angelica Catalani, Italian opera singer, died
(born 1780).
23/6/1848. Adolfe Sax, born on 6/11/1814 in Dinant, Belgium,
was awarded a patent for the saxophone.
1/4/1848, Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer, died
(born 1798).
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29/12/1847, William Crotch, English musician, died (born
5/7/1775).
4/11/1847, The composer
Felix
Mendelssohn died in Leipzig of a stroke, aged 38.
27/9/1847, Marie Lajeunesse, or Albani, Canadian
singer, was born in Chambly, Quebec.
16/4/1846, Domenico Dragonetti, musician, died (born
7/4/1763)
19/10/1845, Wagner�s
opera �Tannhauser� was first performed at Dresden.� Wagner�s music
inspired either wonder or loathing, and he was also highly anti-Semitic.
7/3/1845, Edward Lloyd, English tenor vocalist, was born.
13/7/1844, Johann
Gansbacher, Austrian composer, died (born 1778).
21/5/1844, Guiseppe Baini,
Italian
musician, died in Rome (born in Rome 21/10/1775).
3/5/1844, Richard D�Oyly
Carte, who produced the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, was born.
18/3/1844, Rimsky Korsakoov, Russian composer,
was born in Novgorod.
15/6/1843, Edward Grieg, Norwegian
composer, was born in Bergen.� He was of Scottish descent.
22/10/1842, Anne Louise Cary, US singer, was born.
12/5/1842, Jules Massanet, French composer, was born.
11/4/1842, Edmond Audran, French composer, was born in
Lyons (died in Paris 16/8/1901).
15/3/1842, Maria Cherubini, Italian composer, died (born
14/9/1760).
8/9/1841, Anton Dvorak, Czech composer,
was born near Prague.
18/1/1841, French composer Alexis Chabrier was born (died
13/9/1894).
17/12/1840, Hermann Goetz, German composer, was born (died
4/12/1876).
12/11/1840, Auguste Rodin, French sculptor,
was born in Paris.
7/5/1840, Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, was born in Votkinsk, the son of a
government mines inspector.
7/11/1839, Hermann Levi, German orchestral
conductor, was born.
12/4/1839, Victorin Joncieres, French
composer, was born (died 26/10/1903).
21/3/1839, Modest Moussorgsky, Russian composer, was born in Karevo (now called
Pskov).
25/10/1838, Georges Bizet, composer, was born in Bougival,
Paris (died 3/6/1875).
12/8/1838, Sir Joseph Barnby, composer, was born in York
(died in London 28/1/1896).
3/8/1838, Frederic Clay, English composer, was born
(died 24/11/1889).
6/10/1837, Jean Lesueur, French composer, died (born
15/1/1760).
24/8/1837, Francois Dubois, French composer, was born.
7/8/1837, Allan Foli, Irish bass singer, was born (died
20/10/1899).
26/6/1837, Ernest Guiraud, French composer, was born
(died 6/5/1892).
11/1/1837, John Field,
English composer, died (born 1782).
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31/12/1836, Mili Balakirev, Russian composer, was born in
Nizni-Novogorod.
23/9/1836, Marie Malibran, French operatic singer, died
(born 24/3/1808).
26/6/1836, Rouget de Lisle, composer
of La Marseillaise in 1792, died.
22/2/1836, John Clarke-Whitfeld, English organist and composer,
died aged 65.
21/2/1836, Clement Delibes, French composer, was born
(died 16/1/1891).
16/2/1836, Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer, was
born.
20/1/1836, John Carrodus, violinist, was born (died 13/7/1895).
3/10/1835, Charles Saint-Saens, French composer, was
born.
24/9/1835, Vincenzo Bellini, operatic composer, died in
Puteaux, Paris (born in Catania, Sicily 1/11/1801).
12/11/1834, Alexander Borodin, Russian composer, was born in St Petersburg.
28/9/1834, Charles Lamoureux, French violinist, was born
(died 21/12/1899).
1/9/1834, Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian
musician, was born (died 17/1/1886).
17/8/1834, Peter Benoit, composer, was born in Flanders
(died in Antwerp 8/3/1901).
14/9/1833, Francis Bache, composer, was born in
Birmingham (died 26/3/1888 in London).
7/5/1833, Johannes Brahms, German composer,
was born in Hamburg, the son of a poor orchestral musician.
20/1/1833, Gertrud Mara, German singer, died.
18/1/1833, Louis Herold, French musician, died (born
28/1/1791).
3/6/1832, Alexandre Lecocq, French composer, was born.
18/5/1832, Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer, was born.
9/3/1832, Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, died.
5/8/1831, Sebastien Erard, musical instrument maker,
died (born 5/4/1752).
28/6/1831, Joseph Joachim, German composer, was born
(died 13/8/1907).
8/1/1830, Hans Bulow, German pianist, was born (died
13/2/1894).
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1829, The accordion was invented by Cyril Damian (1772-1837) in Vienna.
16/2/1829, Francois Gossec, French composer, died (born
1734).
19/11/1828, Franz Schubert,
born 31/1/1797, died of typhus, aged 31.
9/8/1827, Marc Desaugiers, French composer, died (born
17/8/1772).
26/3/1827, Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven died in Bonn,
aged 57. His last words were reputedly �I shall hear in Heaven�. His funeral
was on 29/3/1827, in Vienna; thousands attended it.
9/10/1826, Michael Kelly, British composer, died.
25/10/1825, Johann Strauss junior, composer,
was born in Vienna, Austria.
4/9/1824, Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer, was born
(died 11/10/1896).
13/6/1824, Julius Eichberg, German composer, was born
(died 28/1/1893).
2/3/1824, Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer,
was born in Litomysl, Bohemia.
24/12/1823, Giovanni Bottesini, Italian
composer, was born in Lombardy (died in Parma 7/7/1889).
1/12/1823, Ernest Reyer, French composer, was born.
7/5/1823, Despite his deafness, Beethoven conducted the first
performance of his Ninth Symphony.
1/3/1823, Pierre Garat, French singer, died (born
25/4/1764).
10/12/1822, Cesar Franck, French composer,
was born (died 8/11/1890).
1821,The harmonica was invented
by the German CFL
Buschmann, as an aid to tuning a piano.
15/5/1821, John Callcott, English musician (born
20/11/1766) died.
6/10/1820, Jenny Lind, Swedish singer, was born (died
2/11/1887).
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22/12/1819, Franz Abt, German composer, (died 31/3/1885 in
Weisbaden) was born in Eilenburg, Saxony.
13/9/1819, Clara Schumann, German pianist, was born (died
20/5/1986).
11/4/1819, Sir Charles Halle, German musician
who founded the Halle Orchestra in
Manchester, was born.
26/9/1818, John Sims Reeves, English vocalist, was born
(died 25/10/1900).
25/8/1818, Elizabeth Billington, opera singer, died near
Venice.
17/6/1818, Charles Gounod, French composer, was born
(died 18/10/1893).
20/3/1818, Johann Forkel,
German musician, died (born 22/2/1749).
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18/10/1817, Etienne Mehul, French composer, died (born
24/6/1763).
22/2/1817, Niels Gade, Danish composer, was born (died
21/12/1890).
13/4/1816, Sir William Bennett, English composer, was
born in Sheffield (died in St Johns Wood, London, 15/2/1875).
27/3/1816, Sir George Elvey, composer, was born (died
9/10/1893).
7/10/1815, Charles Beecher, US composer, was born in
Litchfield, Connecticut (died in Georgetown, Massachusetts, 21/4/1900).
15/9/1815, Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer, was born
(died 11/8/1868).
28/6/1815, Robert Franz, German composer, was born (died
24/10/1892).
15/5/1815, Stephen Heller,
Austrian composer, was born (died 14/1/1888).
8/5/1815, Jean Alard, French violinist, was born in Bayonne
(died 22/2/1888 in Paris).
1/1/1815, Henry Lazarus, British clarinettist, was born
(died 6/3/1895).
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1814, The first reliable
metronome was invented, by German organ-maker Dietrich Winkel. His idea was
stolen by musician Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, who patented the
device in his own name. �Winkel
successfully sude, but by then Maelzel had retired tpo the USA with the
profits.
6/11/1814, Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician
and instrument-maker who invented the Saxophone and Saxhorn, was born.
8/6/1814, Frederick Himmel, German composer, died (born
20/11/1765)
12/5/1814, Adolf von Henselt, German composer, was born
(died 10/10/1889).
10/10/1813, Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, near
Busseto, the son of an innkeeper.
24/9/1813, Andre Gretry, French composer, died (born
8/2/1741).
22/5/1813, Richard Wagner, German operatic composer, was born in Leipzig.
2/3/1813, Sir Georhge MacFarren, English composer, was
born (died 31/10/1887).
27/6/1812, John Hullah,
English composer, was born (died 1884).
27/4/1812, Friedrich Flotow, German composer, was born
(died 24/1/1883).
23/4/1812, Louis Jullien, musician, was born (died 14/3/1860).
24/10/1811, Ferdinand Hiller, German composer, was born
(died 12/5/1885).
22/10/1811, Franz Liszt,
Hungarian composer and pianist, was
born in the village of Raiding near Odenburg.
1/12/1810, Josef Gung�l, Hungarian composer, was born
(died 31/1/1889).
8/6/1810, Robert Schumann, German composer,
was born.
23/6/1810, Fanny Essler, Austrian dancer, was born (died
27/11/1884).
13/4/1810, Felicien David, French composer, was born
(died 29/8/1876).
1/3/1810, Frederic Chopin,
Polish composer and pianist, was
born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, the son of a Frenchman.
5/2/1810, Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist, was born (died
17/8/1880).
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12/10/1809, John Hatton, English composer, was born (died
20/9/1886).
31/5/1809, Franz Joseph Haydn,
Austrian composer, died in Vienna.
3/2/1809, Felix Mendelssohn,
German composer, was born in
Hamburg, son of a banker.
22/12/1808, Beethoven�s
5th and 6th symphonies received their premiere in Vienna.
15/5/1808, Michael Balfe,
Irish composer, was born in Dublin (died 20/10/1870).
24/3/1808, Marie
Malibran, French operatic singer, was born (died 23/9/1836).
14/2/1808, Sir Michael
Costa, British composer, was born (died 29/4/1884).
20/11/1805, Beethoven�s
only opera, Fidelio, premiered at the
Theater an der Wein, in Vienna.
28/5/1805, Luigi
Boccherini, Italian composer, died in Madrid (born 1743).
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27/11/1804, Sir Julius
Benedict, composer, was born in Stuttgart (died in London 5/6/1885).
19/11/1804, Pietro
Guglielmi, Italian composer, died (born 5/1727).
16/6/1804, Johann Hiller,
German composer, died (born 25/12/1725)
14/3/1804, Johann Strauss
the Elder, Austrian composer,
was born in Vienna, son of an innkeeper.
11/12/1803, Hector Berlioz, French composer, was born in La Cote St Andre, near
Grenoble, son of a doctor.
24/7/1803, Adolphe Adam, French composer,
was born (died 3/5/1856).
2/6/1803, Michael Glinka, Russian composer, was born
(died 2/2/1857).
22/10/1802, Samuel Arnold, English composer, died in
London (born 10/8/1740 in London).
7/10/1802, Wilhelm Molique, German composer, was born.
3/3/1802, Beethoven�s opera �Moonlight Sonata� was
published.
1/11/1801, Vincenzo Bellini, operatic composer, was born
in Catania, Sicily (died in Puteaux, Paris, 24/9/1835).
11/1/1801, Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer, died
(born 17/12/1749).
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31/1/1797, Franz Schubert,
Austrian
composer, was born near Vienna. He was
the son of a schoolteacher.
30/11/1796, Johann Lowe,
German composer, was born (died 20/4/1869).
19/11/1795, Thomas Linley, English musician, died.
6/12/1794, Luigi Lablache, French-Italian
singer, was born (died 23/1/1858).
30/5/1794, Ignaz Moschelles, Bohemian
pianist, was born (died 10/3/1870).
29/2/1792, Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer, was born in Pesano, on the Adriatic
coast. He was the son of an itinerant horn player.
5/12/1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, died of typhus in Vienna and was
buried in the common ground of St Mark�s churchyard.
5/9/1791, Giacomo Meyebeer, German composer, was born
(died 2/5/1863).
21/2/1791, Karl Czerny, Austrian composer, was born (died
15/7/1857).
28/1/1791, Louis Herold, French musician, was born (died
18/1/1833).
15/2/1789, Frederic Fesca, German composer, was born
(died 1826).
10/7/1788, Mozart
completed his Jupiter Symphony. Born on 27/1/1756, Mozart
died on 5/12/1791 from typhus and was buried in a pauper�s grave with several
other paupers.
10/8/1787, Mozart
completed his famous Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
20/6/1787, Karl Abel, German musician (born 1725) died in
London.
18/11/1786, Sir Henry Bishop, composer, was born in London
(died 30/4/1855).
3/1/1785, Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer, died
(born 18/10/1706).
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4/8/1784, Giovanni Martini, Italian
musician, died (born 24/4/1706).
25/3/1784, Francois Fetis, Belgian composer, was born
(died 26/3/1871)
23/12/1783, Johann Hasse, German composer, died.
27/10/1782, Birth of Italian composer and violinist Niccolo Paganini, in Genoa.
15/7/1782, Carlo Broschi (Farinelli), Italian singer,
died (born 24/1/1705).
22/11/1780, Konradin Kreutzer, German composer, was born
(died 14/12/1849).
7/2/1779, William Boyce, English composer, died (born in
London 7/2/1710).
14/11/1778, Johann Hummel, German composer, was born (died
1837).
3/8/1778, La Scala
opera house� in Milan opened, the
work of Guiseppe
Piermarini.
5/3/1778, Thomas Arne,
English composer, died in
London.
20/11/1776, John Callcott,
English� musician, was born (died
15/5/1821).
21/10/1775, Guiseppe Baini, Italian musician, was born in
Rome (died in Rome, 21/5/1844).
5/7/1775, William Crotch, English musician, was born
(died 19/12/1847).
1/12/1774, Johann Agricola,
German musician died in Berlin (born� 4/1/1720
in Dobitschen).
15/11/1774, William Horsley, English musician, was born
(died 1858).
25/8/1774, Niccola Jommelli, Italian
composer, died (born 10/9/1714).
17/8/1772, Marc Desaugiers, French composer, was born (died
9/4/1827).
24/2/1771, Johann Cramer, English composer, was born
(died 16/4/1858).
16/12/1770, Beethoven, German composer,
was born in Bonn, the son of an undistinguished tenor.
20/11/1766, John Callcott, English musician (died
15/5/1821) was born.
20/11/1765, Frederick Himmel, German composer, was born
(died 8/6/1814)
24/6/1763, Etienne Mehul, French composer, was born (died
18/10/1817).
7/4/1763, Domenico Dragonetti, musician, was born (died
16/4/1846).
14/9/1760, Maria Cherubini, Italian composer, was born
(died 15/3/1842).
12/2/1760, Johann Dussek, Bohemian composer, was born
(died 20/3/1812).
15/1/1760, Jean Lesueur, French composer, was born (died
6/10/1837).
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8/8/1759, Carl Graun,
German composer, died (born 7/5/1701).
14/4/1759. George Frederick Handel,
German composer, died, aged 74, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey. He was born in Halle, Saxony, on 23/2/1685. He settled in
England and became court composer to George II.
23/7/1757. The composer
Scarlatti
died, aged 71.
27/1/1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Austrian composer, was born in
Salzburg, the son of a musician.
1/12/1755, Maurice Greene, English composer, died (born
1695).
13/8/1755, Francesco Durante, Italian composer, died
(born 15/3/1684).
5/4/1752, Sebastien Erard, musical instrument maker, was
born (died 5/8/1831).
28/7/1750. The composer
Johann
Sebastian Bach died,
almost blind, of apoplexy. He was born on 21/3/1685 in Eisenach, Germany. He
fathered 20 children, and also composed 300 cantatas, two oratorios, the St
John and St Matthew Passions, and Mass in B Minor.
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17/12/1749, Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer, was born
(died 11/1/1801).
22/2/1749, Johann Forkel, German musician, was born (died
20/3/1818).
31/10/1744, Leonardo
Leo, Italian composer, died (5/8/1694).
10/10/1743, Marie Guimard,
French dancer, was born (died1816).
13/4/1742, The performance of Handel�s Messiah in Dublin marked the climax of his popularity.
28/7/1741, Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer,
notably of The Four Seasons, died in Vienna.
10/8/1740, Samuel Arnold, English composer, was born in
London (died 22/10/1802 in London).
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2/11/1739, Karl Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, was born
(died 1/10/1799).
1738, The musical glasses, (verillon)
ancestor of the harmonica, was
demonstrated by Eisel.
18/12/1737, Antonio Stradivari, famous Italian violin maker, died in Cremona, Lombardy.
3/2/1736, Johann Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician, was
born in Kloster-Neuburg (died 7/3/1809 in Vienna).
7/12/1732, The Covent
Garden Theatre, London, opened
31/3/1732, Franz Joseph Haydn,
Austrian composer, was born in
Rohrau, son of a wheelwright.
27/1/1731, Bartolommeo Cristofori, Italian harpsichord maker, who designed the first
piano in 1710, died in Florence.
29/5/1730, William Jackson, English musician, was born
(died 5/7/1803).
14/8/1727, William Croft, English composer, died (born
1678).
25/12/1725, Johann Hiller,
German composer, was born (died 16/6/1804)
4/1/1720, Johann Agricola, German musician (died
1/12/1774 in Berlin) was born in Dobitschen.
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2/3/1717, First ballet
performed in England, The Loves of Mars and Venus , at The
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
19/2/1717, David Garrick, English actor
and theatre manager, was born in Hereford, son of an army captain.
10/9/1714, Niccola Jommelli, Italian composer, was born
(died 25/8/1774).
2/7/1714, Christoph Gluck, German composer, was born
(died 15/11/1787).
8/3/1714, C P E Bach, composer,
born.
1711, The tuning fork was
invented by English instrument maker, John Shore.
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15/4/1710, Marie Camargo, French dancer, was born (died
1770).
12/3/1710, Thomas Arne, composer
of Rule Britannia, was born in
London, the son of an upholsterer.
7/2/1710, William Boyce, English composer, was born in
London (died 7/2/1779).
18/10/1706, Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer, was born
(died 3/1/1785).
24/4/1706, Giovanni Martini, Italian musician, was born
(died 4/8/1784).
24/1/1705, Carlo Broschi (Farinelli), Italian singer, was
born (died 15/7/1782).
1704, The first piano was constructed by Bartolomeo Cristofori.
7/5/1701, Carl Graun,
German composer, was born (died 8/8/1759).
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25/3/1699, Johann Hasse, German composer, was born (died
23/12/1783).
28/11/1695, Giovanni Colonna, Italian musician, died.
21/11/1695, Henry Purcell, English composer,
died in London from tuberculosis.
5/8/1694, Leonardo Leo, Italian composer, was born (died
31/10/1744).
22/3/1687, Jean Baptiste, director of the Parisn Opera,
died of sepsis after stabbing himself in the foot with his long baton whilst
conducting� a Te Deum of thanksgiving for
King Louis
XIV�s recoverty from illness.
21/3/1685, Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, was born in Eisenach, Thuringia.
23/2/1685, George Frederick Handel,
German composer, was born in Halle,
the son of a barber-surgeon.
15/3/1684, Francesco Durante, Italian composer, was born
(died 13/8/1755).
4/3/1678. Birth of the Venetian composer
and violinist Antonio
Lucio Vivaldi.
2/1/1678, The Hamburg Staatsoper (Opera JHouse) opened.
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2/5/1655, Bartolommeo Cristofori, Italian who invented the first piano, was born in
Padua.
1634, Villagers at
Oberammagau vowed to put on an annual Passion
Play if they were spared the Black Death.
12/3/1628, John Bull, composer
and organist, died.
5/6/1625, Orlando Gibbons, English composer, died (born
1583).
19/5/1611, Death of Chinese mathematician Zhu Zhaiyu,
who discovered equal temperament in music.
2/2/1594, Composer Palestrina died in Rome (born ca. 1525).
21/3/1527, Hermann Finck, German composer, was born (died
1558).
27/8/1521, Josquin des Pres, French composer, died.
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1499, Oxford University
instituted a Degree in Music.
1472, First printed sheet music,
in Bologna, Italy.
50 AD, Earliest version of the
oboe in use, in Rome.
45,000 BCE, The oldest musical
instrument in the world, a flute, has been dated to this period.