ΜΟΥΣΙΚΟ ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟ ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΣ
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in Wurzburg.
His compositions, in the German Romantic tradition with some popular elements, include two operas, five symphonies, three piano concertos, and a concerto for accordion, oratorios and other choral music,chamber music and many songs.
AKO - Hermann Zilcher: Suite op. 77
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Birth of FRANTISEK BRIXI 1732 in Prague
Czech composer and organist. His family, related to the Bendas, included several composers and organists of whom he was the most prominent. After musical training and a series of church organist posts in Prague, in 1751 he was appointed Kapellmeister of St Vitus Cathedral. Enormously prolific,he wrote some 500 religious works including masses and oratorios. His music embraced the Viennese characteristics of Fux and the Napolitan style of Alessandro Scarlatti;his lively rhythmic writing and melodic inventiveness continued to exert an influence on Czech music into the 19th century.
František Xaver Brixi (1732-1771) - Organ Concerto No.8 in D major
http://youtu.be/mVsRn3TAg9A
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Birth of Sir MICHAEL TIPPETT 1905 in London
English composer. He studied composition at the RCM(1923-8), and worked as a schoolteacher. Feeling that his composiional technique was still immature,he took further
lessons(1930-2).By the end of the 1930s, with the Concerto for double
string orchestra(1938-9), his style reached maturity. In 1940 Tippett
became director of music at Morley College,and the next year he completed the
oratorio ''A Child ofourTime''(1939-41), first performed 1944. The work
is a reaction to a particular Nazi atrocity. This remained a
fundamental theme of the five operas that followed the oratorio- The
Midsummer Marriage(Covent Garden,1955), King Priam(Coventry'1962), The
Knot Garden(Covent Garden,1970), The Ice Break(Covent Garden,1977), and
New Year (Houston,TX,1989)--and of his tho later choral works The Vision
of St Augustine (1963-5) and The Mask of Time(1980-2). In his later
years Tippett completed a Fourth Symphony(1976-7), the string quarters
nos. 4 and 5 (1977-9,1990-1), and the Piano Sonata no.4 (1983-4), and the
Triple Concerto(1979). His last work,the song without words for
orchestra The Rose Lake (1991-3), was a visionary depiction of landscape
inspired by a visit to Senegal. He was knighted in 1966.Sir Michael Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra (Outer Movements)
http://youtu.be/ekTqSv5oA3I
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Death of MARY GARDEN 1967 in Inverurie
Soprano Mary Garden: Debussy ~ Beau soir (1929)
http://youtu.be/6IsjdIO9eb0
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Birth of DIMITRI MITROPOULOS 1896 in Athens
His performances were theatrical and imaginative and were highly praised for their detail.Mitropoulos advocated much new music and gave the premieres of works by Villa-Lobos, Krenek, and Barber. He was also an admired pianist and a composer.
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts New York Philharmonic in rehearsal and concert
http://youtu.be/Kl-dSoNHx8Y
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Birth of GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI 1710 in Ancona
In December that year he composed a Mass and psalms for solemn services in the aftermath of a series of earthquakes in Naples, and shortly afterwards was appointed deputy to the city's maestro di cappella. His most famous opera,the intermezzo 'La serva pardona, was written the following year. In 1734 political upheavals cauced Pergolesi to go to Rome with his employer.
In 1735 his health seems to have been beginning to fail;he may have spent part of the summer at the Capuchin monastery at the nearby spa town of Pozzuoli, and his last opera was composed that autumn. Early in 1736 he retired to the Franciscan house at Pozzuoli, where he composed his last works,including the famous'Stabat mater'for soprano,alto, and strings.Such was his reputation that a good many works by other composers-especially instrumental pieces, including some of those drawn on by Stravinsky for 'Pulcinella-were misttributed to him.
Pergolesi - Violin Concerto in B Flat Major - Mov. 2&3/3
http://youtu.be/22-I_ZGz0R4
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Birth of JOSEF SUK 1874 in Krecovice
Josef Suk, Dvorak Violin Concerto ( 1 )
http://youtu.be/xo3o4oxaUV0
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He was first a singer and later 'maestro di cappella'in the Gonzaga chapel of S.Barbara, Mantua. He was famous for his ballettos,whic were published in a multitude of editions in the Netherlands, Paris and Scotland, as well as in Italoy. They were widely imitated, notably by Thomas Morley, who borrowed (and even pirated) thye words and even sometimes the music for his own volume of balletts.
Giovanni Gastoldi - Balletti per Cantare, Sonare e Ballare (1/5)
http://youtu.be/PVsGQdxnUz8
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Birth of ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI 1995 in Brescia
Italian pianist. In 1939 he won the Geneva International Piano Competition and began a teaching and performing career,which, after 1945, brought him international fame. His playing was renowed for its idiosyncratic style,and while his reputation for cancellation remained notorious, his virtuosity became legendary; he was one of themost gifted players of his generation. His fairly limited repertory ranged from Scarlatti to Brahms,though his Debussy, Ravel, and Rakhmaninov were particularly fine. His students included Maurizio Pollini and Martha Angerich
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Ravel
http://youtu.be/oxscP3QtSIg
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Death of ANTONIO LOTTI 1740 in Venice
St Mark's, holding various organist's posts there from 1690 and becoming maestro di cappella in 1736. He wrote many operas for the Venetian stage and also for Dresden. He was one of the few composers of his time to be equally successful with opera and with contrapuntal sacred music in the neo-Palestrina style, some of which has remained in use. Lotti was an influential teacher whose pupils included Galuppi.
Crucifixus (Lotti) - King's College, Cambridge
http://youtu.be/pLyB8nxvOeY
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Death of HENRI HERZ 1888 in Paris
Austrian pianist, composer, teacher,and piano manufacturer.
A child prodigy, he showed musical gifts from the age of eight.
In 1816 he entered the Paris Conservatoire to study the piano and composition; he later spent over 30 years as a piano teacher there. In 1851 he founded his own piano factory,producing instruments highly regarded by his contemporaries. For Schumann, Herz's music was merely rapid, metetricious display, without originality or enduring qualities. Time has provedim correct on the last feature, though we can see in Herz's variation sets and piano concertos a fertile keyboard imagination, if never allied to a comparable musical inventiveness.
Henri Herz Fantaisie Méxicaine op. 162
http://youtu.be/FZ4j-wZd2sM
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Death of SERGEYEVICH ALEKSANDR DARGOMIZHSKY
1869 in St Petersburg
DARGOMIZHSKY - OVERTURE 'RUSALKA'.wmv
http://youtu.be/Dqj-hixVu8I
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Birth of GIUSEPPE SAMARTINI 1695 in Milan
Italian composer and a virtuoso oboist.In the 1720s he played in the opera orchestra in Milan,where he was heard and praised by Quantz.He visited London(1728),becoming oboist at the King's Theatre and taking an active part in concert life.Later he entered the service of the Prince of Wales.Burney describes his tone as superb,and near to that of the human voice.He composed some intresting concerti grossi after the Handelian model but with a more up-to-date idiom.
Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750) - Sonata No 4 in F major for two German flutes and continuo
http://youtu.be/mxtHr8Hq5aM
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Nocture en sol mineur, de Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
http://youtu.be/s2_SmAEfEfk
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Birth of JOSE de NEBRA 1702 in Madrid
Maria Bayo sings José de Nebra Arias - 1/3
http://youtu.be/sx6rzZ-bscg
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Birth of GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI 1856 in CapuaItalian composer and conductor. The son of a trombone player and bandmaster, he showed early talent as a pianist and entered the Naples Conservatory in 1867. After a career as a concert pianist he took up conducting and became one of the earliest champions of Wagner's music in Italy, directing the first Italian performance of 'Tristan und Isolde' at Bologna in 1888. He was director of the music school there (1886-1902), giving many concerts and composing symphonies and concertos in the Germanic style. He spent the last seven years of his life as head of the Naples Conservatory.
Notturno, op.70, no.1, Giuseppe Martucci, English Chamber Orchestra, Alfredo Bonavera
http://youtu.be/1uh_FYkLeUI
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Birth of FRANCIS POULENC 1899 in Paris
French composer. He had some piano lessons from Ricardo Vines,but as a
composer he was self-taught at the time when his witty and exotic
'Rapsodie negre' for voice and chamber ensemble (1917) won him a place in
the circle round Satie and thus in Les Six, the group which also included
Milhaud and Honegger, and which was so christened in 1920. Several works
of this time show him closely following Stravinsky who was perhaps the strongest influence on Poulenc's style, with added doses of Chabrier's wit.Poulenc's gifts as a melodist, coupled with his literary friendships and his concert partnership with the tenor Pierre Bernac from 1935 to 1959'led to a large output of songs, including cycles to poems by Guillaume Apollinaire,Jean Cocteau,and Paul Eluard. It seems now as though he was the last in the line of great French melodistes streching back to Berlioz. His sympathy with the surrealist poets is also displayed in his bizarre but wonderfully effective operatic treatment of Apollinaire's play 'Les Mamelles de Tiresias (1947), while his solo opera 'La Voix humaine'(1959, text by Cocteau)shows his delicate sensitivity in underlining a scene from contemporary life, a woman speaking over the telephone to the lover who is abandoning her. Here Poulenc drew on his own experiences of depression, triggered to some extent by unhappy homosexual love affairs.
Poulenc Two Piano Concerto First Movement
http://youtu.be/cC4kJiTHTtQ
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Death of JACOBUS de KERLE 1591 in Prague
South Netherlands composer. He was one of the leading composers of the Counter-Reformation. During his career he worked at Orvieto, Rome, Dillingen, Augsburg, and, from1583 until his death, at the imperial court at Prague. His output, which includes masses, motets, and a cycle of hymns for the church's year, conforms to the requirements of the Council of Trent in its economy, restraint, and emphasis on the correct declamation of the text.
Missa da Pacem - Credo - Jacobus de Kerle
http://youtu.be/dGmA_Tfuhek
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Italian composer. He became maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia on the death of Palestrina, and then moved to the Cappella Sistina; he was also much n demand from other Roman institutions and patrons. He wrote church music, some in the style of Palestrina and some more modern in approach, as well as several volumes of attractive madrigals.
R. Giovannelli : "Jubilate Deo"
http://youtu.be/sUmPE0owJq0
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Death of PIERRE FOURNIER 1986 in Geneva
French cellist.His career was based largely in France between 1925 and 1939 but internationally therafter, particularly with
Schnabel, Szigeti, and Primrose at the Edinburgh Festivals in chamber
music by Schubert and Brahms. Known as the aristocrat of cellists, he had a
broad repertory and his playing was notable for its beauty and the
graceful poise of its phrasing. He gave the premieres of concertos by
Roussel, Martin and Martinu.Pierre Fournier plays Bach (vaimusic.com)
http://youtu.be/mWV3GPVy8Hk
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Death of FRANZ KROMMER 1831 in Vienna
Czech composer. Although he studied the organ and the violin with his
uncle,he was largely self-taught as a composer. He was an organist in
Turan for a few years before following the well-known path to Vienna in
1785 .After pursuing a career as Kapellmeister to various of the Hangarian nobility and Duke Ignaz Fuchs in Vienna, he succeeded his compatriot Kozeluch as the emperor's Kammer Kapellmeister and Hofmusik Compositor in 1818.
Krommer's music, in particular his many quarters and quintets, were admired in Vienna and disseminated widely throughout Europe. His musical style faithfully reflected the changing tastes of his day,from rococo to early Romantic.
Franz Krommer - Clarinet Concerto in E flat major (1/3)
http://youtu.be/rq7sn6WZ1-A
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Death of ARCANGELO CORELLI 1713 in Rome
A. Corelli La Folia for violin and piano
http://youtu.be/BECZDIuqEvA
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Birth of ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN
Russian composer,conductor, and pianist,son of Nikolay Tcherepnin.In 1921 he settled with his father in Paris, where he studied at the Conservatoire.He then began a career as a virtuoso pianist and toured extensively His First Symphony,with its secondmovement scored for percussion, created a scandal in 1927;
its last movement contains many references to what has been dubbed the 'Tcherepnin scale'of nine notes, consisting of three progressions of a semitone,tone,and semitone.In the 1930s he spent three years in China; Chinese music was to influence many of his later works. He was a prolific composer, writing symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and dramatic works.
His completion of Musorgsky's unfinished comic opera 'Marriage' had its premiere in Essen in 1937. In 1949 he became instructor in theory at DePaul University, Chicago,
and in 1958 he took American citizenship.
http://youtu.be/3-s52cSAZrk
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Death of FRANK BRIDGE
1941 in Eastbourne
English composer. He studied the violin and composition at the
RCM (1899-1903). The mai emphasis of his studies was composition,under
Stanford, though his violin playing enabled him to make a living after he
left the RCM. Heswitched to the viola and did a great deal of quartet playing in London.He was also an active orchestral and opera conductor, making five concert tours to the USA.
His early chamber works have a Brahmsian fluency and a fresh, distinctive lyric impulse that he learnt from Stanford. After the war,and several years of near-silence, the
modernity in the Piano Sonata (1921-4) signalled a further stylistic departure. His works did not appeal to English audiences of the time, and Bridge's importance came to be recognized only a generation after his death, thanks in part to the efforts of his pupil Benjamin Britten.
http://youtu.be/o-E63kPkUSQ
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Death of BENJAMIN GODARDin Cannes
French composer and viola player. He studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire and played the viola in various instrumental groups. His first great success came in 1878 with a prizewinning'dramatic symphony' Le Tasse, on the life of the poet Torquato Tasso. He went on to write operas of limited distinction, for which he is remembered largely by the berceuse from 'Jocelyn(1888)and an aria from 'La Vivandiere' (1895). He also wrote much instrumental music and songs,and his Suite for flute and orchestra(1890) is still played.
http://youtu.be/3-8rB6XdlG4
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Death of JOSEPH-NICOLAS-PANCRACE ROYER
French composer, performer, and music administrator.
He maintained an influential position in Parisian musical life from 1730 onwards, when he was qappointed' maitre de musique'at the Opera and subsequently 'maitre de musique des enfans de France', a position that included the musical education of the Dauphin Louis.
His reputation as a harpsichordist and organist was equalled by his fame (second, for a time, only to that of Rameau) as an opera composer, and given official acknowledgment by numerous court appointments, including the position of 'chantre de la musique de la chambre du roi'. His opera ''Zaide,reine de Grenade''(1739) was his most spectacular success,and one of the first to feature a danced pantomime.It was revived frequently until well
after his death.
http://youtu.be/1yAasXSbVPs
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Birth of CHRISTIAN SINDING
Norwegian composer. After studying the violin,he turned his attention to composition.His piano quintet written in Munich, gained the advocacy of Busoni and the Brodsky Quartet. He next attracted attention with his Piano Concerto and First Symphony. Later in his life he taught composition at the newly founded Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York(1921-22)
He was the leading figure of the generation between Grieg and Svendsen on the one hand and Saeverud on the other.A prolific composer,he wrote four symphonies, three violin sonaas, three piano trios, and innumerable piano pieces, of which the best known is 'Rustle of Spring'.
His musical language is rooted in apost-Romantic idiom indebted to Wagner and Strauss. There are some 250 songs of variable quality that are second only to Grieg's in their impirtance for Norwegian song. The best of them,like much of his other music, evince both craftmanship and a cultured sensibility.
http://youtu.be/ga_sM1ankFM
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Death of OSCAR STRAUS
Austrian composer. He studied with Max Bruch and wrote orchestral and instrumental music before taking up appointments as a theatre musical director. He entered the Strauss-Lehar operetta tradition with'A Waltz Dream' (1907) and 'The Brave soldier' , also known as 'The Chocolate-Cream Soldier'; 1908, after G.B.Shaw. He later had outstanding success with 'Der letzte Walzer (1920) and 'Drei Walzer'(1935), and with a waltz for the film La Ronde
(1950).
http://youtu.be/ccqDfvfVrtM
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Death of JOHN ECCLES
A theatre composer, was in 1700 appointed Master of the King's Music, in which capacity he composed many occasional odes. In 1701 he won second prize in a competition for his settings of Congreve's 'The Judgement of Paris. Eccles wrote the music for some 12 masques and other dramatic pieces,including the English opera 'Semele (1707), which was not produced, and incidental music for more than 50 plays.
http://youtu.be/LZAiH0eOGYo
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Birth of ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Italian composer. The son of a German father and an Italian mother, he had little formal tuition in music until 1892 when he returned to Munich to study with Rheinberger..
He returned to Venice, became a friend of the composer Lorenzo Perosi, and wrote religious music before having his first operatic success with 'Le donne curiose', given in Munich in 1903. He was then appointed director of the Liceo Musicale Benedetto Marcello in Venice and composed another two operas for Munich,the second of which-'Il segreto di Susanna (1909), a witty conversation piece-has a continuing place in the repertory. His serious opera,' I gioielli della Madonna' (1911 ), in the verismo style of Mascagni,was also successful. During World War I a spirital crisis caused Wolf to give up composition, but from 1925 he wrote several other comic operas. For some years from 1939 he was professor of composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. His operas have rarely achieved the succes their wittiness seems to deserve: He was one of the first Italian composers to return to Goldoni and the commedia dell'arte for inspiration, and as such he was the precusor of Malipiero and the modernist Italian school.
http://youtu.be/KFqAKzcFQEE
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Death of JOHANN MELCHIOR MOLTER
1765 in Karlsruhe
German composer. He served for two periods (1722-23 and 1742-65) as Kapellmeister in Karlsruhe, and held a similar post in between at Eisenach.
His compositions include symphonies,concertos, orchestra l sonatas, and chamber works. In his music a shift can be observed from a late Baroque to a 'galant'style.
http://youtu.be/TFOC-n4oOAg
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Birth of JACQUES DUPHLY
1715 in Rouen
http://youtu.be/mq8MfVQByW4
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Birth of ADOLF JENSEN
1837 in Kaliningradh
German composer. He worked as a piano teacher until ill health compelled him to retire to various south German and Austrian resorts. His early music-mainly songs and piano music-recalls Schumann, but he was later influenced by Liszt and Wagner. Some of his songs show his intention to translate Wagner's ideas of beauty and truth into music in the smaller forms, and reflect or even anticipate Tristanesque harmony.
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Birth of CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER
German composer. He studied for nine years under the Kantors, Schelle and Kuhnau.In 1706 he moved to
Hamburg, where he was befriended by Telemann and, fro 1707, acted as harpsichordist for the Theater am Gansemarkt. Among the operas he wrote for Hamburg ''Bellelophon''(1708) enjoyed particular success.
In 1722 he applied for the vacant post of Kantor at the Thomasschule but withdrew at the request of his employer, thus making way for Bach's appointment. His impressive output included some 1400 church cantatas, close in style to those of Bach, together with 113 symphonies,40 concertos, and numerous chamber and solo keyboard works.
http://youtu.be/6wFJWGdzDl8
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Hungarian-born French pianist and composer. At the age of 14 he began a two-year concert tour of central Europe, the strain of which resulted in his collapse from nervous exhaustion. In 1830 he obtained a post as piano teacher to a wealthy family in Augsburg, where he remained for eight years,studing composition and writing numerous lieder. Schumann admired his works and invited him to be the Augsburg correspondent of the 'Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik''.
In 1838 Heller moved to Paris,where he made a living as a critic and a composer of salon music and enjoyed the friendship of Berlioz. Though remembered today for his studies, he was an important transitional figure between German Romanticism and French Impressionism, as is demonstrated in his character pieces of the 1850s and by his later, more exploratory works including the Barcarolles op.141 and the Sonata in B minor op.143.
Stephen Heller: 25 Studies Op. 47 No. 15 - Adagio
http://youtu.be/3GVWykUI7PE
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Italian composer. He was the son of Giovanni Battista Caletti, maestro di cappella at Crema Cathedral, and his early musical promise earned him the patronage of Federico Cavalli, the governor of Crema, whose name Francesco adopted in the 1630s as a mark of respect and gratitude.
He entered the chour of St Mark's, Venice, as a soprano in 1616 and soon became well known as a singer; in 1620 he also became organist at SS Giovanni e Paolo, remaining in the post until 1630 when he married a wealthy widow, Maria Sozomeno. His first published work, the solo motet 'Cantate Domino' appeared in 1625. Cavalli's 'Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo' at the Teatro S.Cassiano in 1639 was the first of many operas produced over the next 20 years.
At the height of his fame , in 1660,Cavalli was invited to compose an opera at the wedding of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain. When 'Ercole amante' was given n 1662 it was not a great success, Lully's ballets winning most acclaim. Cavalli returned to Venice later that year; although he had vowed never to produce another dramatic work, he composed several operas on quasi-historical themes which look forward to the late Baroque style. Cavalli had been appointed second organist at St Mark's in 1639 and became first organist in 1665; three years later he was maestro di cappella. He published a volume of church music in 1675, and then a Requiem which he intended to be sung twice yearly after his death. He died the following year, leavinf a large part of his substantial estate to the church of S.Lorenzo, where he was buried.
Francesco Cavalli - Lasso io vivo (L'Egisto) ~ Rolando Villazon
http://youtu.be/tm_CADWfiMo
Francesco Cavalli: Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
http://youtu.be/7rKP1JpzZ30
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Death of ENRICO TOSELLI 1926 in Florence
Beniamino Gigli Enrico Toselli "Serenata" Version 1 1926 New Jersey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K2cHhpMJbE
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Birth of LOUISE BERTIN 1805 in Bievres
''Esmeralda'' (1836), to a problematic libretto by Victor Hugo himself,concetrates on elaborate concerned numbers at the expense of solo music.
Hidden treasures - Louise Bertin - La Esmeralda (1836) - Selected highlights
http://youtu.be/jCSTCMBiArY
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Pearson is known principally for his songs and verse anthems, many of which were published in his 'Private Musicke' (London 1620) and 'Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique(London,1630)Only four of his keyboard pieces survive.
Martin Peerson - Fall of the Leafe
http://youtu.be/RXFnBWO96QU
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Death of ERNEST REYER 1909 in Le Lavandou
French composer and critic. As a composer he was largely self-taught. He had some success with two 'operas comiques' staged in Paris: ''Maitre Wolfram(1854) and 'La Statue(1861). His reputation rested on two serious operas, 'Sigurd'and'Salammbo' staged in Paris in 1885 and 1900 respectively.
A collection of his newspaper articles, 'Quarante ans de musique' (Paris,1909), is a valuable and entertaining source.
Ernest Reyer "Overture to Sigurd"
http://youtu.be/wdRrbVke-XM
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Italian composer. He worked for most of his life in various churches in Milan. He was one of the most influencial figures in the early development of the symphony, beginning in something like the manner of Vivaldi but developing a style that is the apotheosis of the grace and elegance of the galant style. He may have taught and he certainly influenced, Gluck, and Mozart learnt much from him during his stay in Milan in 1770. Prince Esterhazy possessed copies of two of his symphonies, and though Haydn called him a 'scribbler ' there is a distinct similarity of style between the two composers.
Giovanni Battista Sammartini - Sinfonia in sol maggiore - Atalanta Fugiens, Vanni Moretto
http://youtu.be/wlrFaSaVjAs
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Death of ANTONIO DRAGHI
Italian composer and librettist.He spent most of his life in Vienna.He was a singer at the Teatro S.Apollinare
in Venice in 1657, but the following year was in Vienna in the service of the dowager Empress Eleanor, widow of Ferdinand III. Draghi was one of the most prolific composers of his day: there are, for instance, 59 three-act operas. Of his sacred music, besides oratorios he particularly cultivated the'sepolcro'-a dramatic presentation of the Passion or Crucifixion,peculiar to the imperial court.
Rodrigo Del Pozo - O quanto errai - La vita nella morte - Draghi
http://youtu.be/aVu1KlF7BQM
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Death of LEO DELIBES
1891 in Paris
Freanch composer. He had his first musical training from his mother
and uncle. After his father's death in 1847 the family moved to Paris and
he entered the Conservatoire,studying the organ with Francois Benoist
and composition with Adam. From the age of 17, he was organist at various
churches. He wrote music criticism,and became chorus master at the
Theatre Lyrique (where he worked on Gounod's Faust) and later at the
Opera.In 1866 he first gained wide attention for the ballet 'La Source', written jointly with Leon Minkus. He also composed a 'Pas des fleurs' for Adam's ballet score' Le Corsaire'in 1867,and this was later combined with
Delibe's half of' La Source'to form the ballet'Naila'. In 1869 he composed his final operetta, 'La Cour du roi Petaud',ahich the Opera staged his most celebrated creation, the classic ballet'Coppelia'(1870). Its success enabled him from 1871 to concentrate fully on composition, including the further full-scale ballet success 'Sylvia' (1876).
His operas 'Le Roi l'a dit', 'Jean de Nivelle', and 'Lakme', the last named an essay in the tyhen popular 'French oriental' style, ensured even greater honours.
His last opera, 'Kassya'(1893), based on a story by Sacher Masoch and orchestrated after his death by Massenet was an attempt at something more weighty; but it is his lightness of touch, melodic facility, deftness of theme, and orchestration that ensure his music's survival.
The Flower Duet (Lakmé)
http://youtu.be/8Qx2lMaMsl8
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Death of ARTURO TOSCANINI 1957 in New York
Italian conductor. At the age of nine he was accepted at the Parma
Conservatory to study the cello, piano, and composition. He began his
career as an orchestral cellist with a touring opera company, for which
he soon began coaching the singers. In 1886, aged 19 and with no
conducting tuition or experience, he made his debut as a conductor with
the company, taking over a performance of 'Aida' at a few minutes' notice
and Conducting from memory. He was soon greatly in demand at Italian opera
houses; he conducted the premieres of 'Pagliacci'(1892) and 'La Boheme' (1896) His debut as a conductor was in 1896. In1898 he
was made music director at La Scala, Milan, where he gained fame for his
fanatical demands for technical perfection and artistic expressiveness; he stayed until 1903, returning in 1906-8 and again in 1921-9, one of
its finest periods.In 1908 he went to the Metropolitan Opera, New York, where he conducted the premiere of 'La fanciulla del West' (1910) and first American performances of many operas including 'Boris Godunov' (1913). He conducted at Bayreuth and Salzburg and was guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra but refused to conduct in Italy, Germany, and Austria under the Nazi regimes.
Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 1st mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp
http://youtu.be/N6K_IuBsRM4
* JANUARY 16
Death of AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, graduating in 1854. His first opera, Ipromessi sposi, was first performed in Cremona in 1856, and several more followed before he was taken up by Giulio Ricordi, at that time Italy'smost powerful publisher. The finest fruit of this commercial and artistic collaboration was ''La Gioconda'' (La Scala, Milan, 1876), one of the most influencial operas for the sudsequent generation of Italian composers, and a work that retains a robust currency in the repertory. His later operas failed to make an equal effect, but his career involved conducting and teaching (from 1881 he taught at the Milan Conservatory, with pupils including Puccini and Mascagni). He also wrote instrumental and sacred music, notably 'Lamentazioni di Geremia(1886).
http://youtu.be/W3ILbnHhAzk
http://youtu.be/KHGg7AJzu7E
* JANUARY 16
Birth of NICCOLO PICCINNI
1728 in Bari
Piccinni arrived in Paris in 1776 and composed 'Ronald' under the close supervision of the librettist J.F. Marmontel. It was prodused in January 1778 and won over the public. Piccinni had only moderate success with the first production of 'Atys' (1780) and 'Iphigenie en Tauride'(1781) The successful revival of 'Atys' and the triumph of 'Didon'(both 1783) marked the zenith of his career. A generous rival to both Gluck and Sacchini, he was the victim of the Opera management,then of the Revolution. Forced back to Naples, he suffered imprisonment by association with a politically suspect son-in-law. Eventually he returned to Paris, dying just before a pension from Napoleon might have rescued him from indigence.
http://youtu.be/uO4RLU0iBA0
* JANUARY 17
Italian composer. The son of a prosperous stationer, he initially entered the business himself and held a licence to make and sell playing-cards; by the time of his father's death in 1709, however, he was no longer effectively involved with it styling himself 'musico veneto' His contacts with other Venetian musicians were therefore limited, and his own reputation as a musician depended entirely on his activities as a composer (although,his wife being a well-known singer, he is said to have run a successful singing school). In his own time Albinoni was famous throughout Europe, especially for his sonatas and concertos, which were particularly popular with amateurs and regarded as on a par with those of Corelli and Vivaldi. His violin writing is more conservative than Vivaldi's, especially in its use of higher positions.
The much-performed and recorded g minor Adagio ascribed to Albinoni is a modern composition by Remo Giazotto based on a fragment of one of his works.
Tomaso Albinoni - Concerto Op. 9/2 in d minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnYdVPNEsRE&feature=share
* JANUARY 17
Birth of JOHN STANLEY 1712 in London
John Stanley - Concerto in G major
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-7h-TRJ2U&feature=share
* JANUARY 17
Birth of FRANCOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC 1734 in Vergnies, Hainaut
Gossec was soon publishing chamber music and beginning his prolific career as a symphonist. He showed a predilection for unusual orchestration, using clarinets in a symphony in 1761; his'Messe des morts'(1760)exploits spatial disposition of orchestral and choral forces. After La Poupliniere's death(1762) he found other patrons, and composed several successful works for the Comedie-Italienne. He continued to write instrumental music and in 1769 founded the Concert des Amateurs, performing his own and Haydn's symphonies. His symphonies, in four movements, are the most important French works of his generation. He was among the founding directors of the Paris Conservatoire and devoted most of his energy after 1795 to teaching.
François-Joseph Gossec Symphonie Es-Dur 1. Allegro moderato
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBxcQq4FjwU&feature=share
* JANUARY 18
Birth of ALFONSO FERRABOSCO 1543 in Bologna
Alfonso Ferrabosco Il Padre (1543-1588) - Bruna sei tu, ma bella, madrigal à 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eihqqz-6BC4
* JANUARY 18
Death of ANTONIO LITERES 1747 in Madrid
Spanish composer.In 1686 he won a place as a choirboy at the Colegio de Cantorcicos in Madrid,a college linked to the royal chapel,before being appointed a violinist at the chapel itself in 1693.He remained in that post until his death, combining his performing duties with the composition of sacred music and stage works. During his long tenure in Madrid he established influential contacts with eminent musicians including Sebastian Duron and Jose de Torres. His skill in absorbing Italian stylistic elements contributed to his reputation as a composer of standing.
LOS ELEMENTOS (Fragmento) - Antonio Literes (1673 - 1747)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4djOmFjgUWk&feature=share
* JANUARY 18
French composer.For details see 13th September(music diary)
Chabrier - España; Riccardo Muti, Philadelphia Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P77QKTOkZY&feature=share
* JANUARY 19
Death of FERDINAND HEROLD 1833 in ParisFrench
composer.One of a long line of musicians,he was first taught music by
his father,Francois-Joseph(1755-1802), who had been a pupil of
C.P.E.Bach. At the Paris Conservatoire he studied the violin with
Kreutzer and composition with Mehul. In 1812 he won the Prix de
Rome,which took him to Rome for a year. He stayed for a time in
Naples,and on his way back to Paris visited Vienna where he met Hummel
and Salieri and heard operasby Mozart. Herold began his career as an
operacomposer in 1815. 'Marie(1826), one of his most popular works,was
praised for his elegance and skilful orchestration. In 1826 he was
appointed singing master at the Opera. The largest theatre gave him the
opportunity to compose a number of ballets, including 'La
Somnambule'whichinspired imitations in the secondary theatres and was
recognized as the first Romantic ballet. It was also the source of the
libretto for Bellini's 'La Sonnambula',1831'His two major operatic
successes, 'Zampa'(1831), a version of the Don Juan legend, and 'Le Pre aux
Clercs'(1832), a more intimate treatment of the events later to be
portrayed in Meyerbeer's 'Les Huguenots'(1836), came too late for him to
enjoy their fruits. He died of tuberculosis shortly before his 42nd
birthday.http://youtu.be/vegv2z4XEKI
* JANUARY 19
Birth of BORIS BLACHER
The Paganini Variations(1947) show the colourfuldexterity of his orchestral writing
http://youtu.be/1dGj39RDuUk
* JANUARY 19
Death of JOHAN JOACHIM AGRELL
1765 in Nuremberg Swedish composer, violinist,and harpsichordist. The son of a priest, he studied at Uppsala University, where he played in the university orchestra. He worked at Kassel, 1734-46,before obtaining the post of Kapellmeister at Nuremberg.
His instrumental music shows a tendency towards the galant style, and in his own day he achieved fame as a composer of the newly emerging symphony. He also wrote a number of harpsichord concertos.
http://youtu.be/ymI3ajS6z0Y
*JANUARY 20
http://youtu.be/EdC_7hwXjSg
*JANUARY 20
Death of FLORIAN LEOPOLD GASSMANN 1774
He wrote some opere serie, but his later comic operas for Vienna were more modern with a clear focus on ensemble finales;they may have had some influence on Mozart's early operas and are among his best works,especially'L'amore artigiano' (1767) and 'La contessina'(1770). With 'Ezio' (Rome,1770) he returned to opera seria, and the piece shows that he must have known of and appreciated Gluck's reforms in opera.
http://youtu.be/d2pPq5uzeh8
*JANUARY 20
Birth of GUILLAUME LEKEU 1870
http://youtu.be/0CqhCxKeTs4
* JANUARY 21
Death of MICHEL CORRETTE 1795 in Paris
Michel Corrette- Grand Thunder with Chorus for Organ
http://youtu.be/nSK_Th5-uDQ
* JANUARY 21
Death of THOMAS ATTWOOD WALMISLEY 1856 in Hastings
English composer. He took lessons from Attwood, his godfather, and developed rapidly as a composer and performer. At the age of 16 he became organist at Croyon Parish Church, moving to Cambridge in 1833 as organist of Trinity and St John's colleges. In 1836 he succeeded John Clarke-Whitfield as professor of music. At Cambridge he developed an enviable reputation as an organist and choir trainer. He prodused numerous chamber works, overtures,symphonic music,and choral odes; but he is best remembered for his church music, notably his full service in D (1843)and his Evening Services in B(1845) and D minor(1855), the last considereto be his masterpiece.
Magnificat in D minor - Walmisley
http://youtu.be/dWfP7KeLUKU
* JANUARY 21
Death of DOMENICO MAZZOCCHI 1665 in Rome
Italian composer.He was associated chiefly with the Aldobrandini family in Rome,for which he wrote his opera 'La catena d'Adone'.It is an developing genre,and Mazzocchi drew attention to its'mezz'arie',brief passages in aria style which sought to'break the tedium of the recitative'.He also published dialogues and
sonnet settings,five-voicemadrigals,a
nd oratorios.The madrigals(Rome,1638)could be performed with a
violin consort and contain extensive performance instructions;they are essentially old-fashioned but no less expressive for that.
Domenico Mazzocchi (1592-1665) - Sacrae Concertationes No.17. Dialogo dell'Apocalisse
http://youtu.be/vzCtVQ1BUVY
* JANUARY 21
Death of AUGUSTE FRANCHOMME 1884 in Paris
French cellist and composer. After occupying orchestral posts in Paris he turned to solo work and chamber music as well as becoming a significant teacher (developing the light,so-called 'French'bow technique).A friend of Mendelssohn and intimate of Chopin(who dedicated his cello sonata to him), Franchomme also composed several works for the cello.
Caprice Op.7 No.9 Pour Deux Violoncelles En Ré Majeur - Auguste Franchomme
http://youtu.be/gxmoP35i3AY
* JANUARY 21
Birth of HENRI DUPARC 1848 in Paris
He studied composition with Cesar Franck.
His reputation rests on his 16 solo songs and one duet written between1868 and 1884. He also wrote a few orchestral works,of which the symphonic poem 'Lenore' (1875) is the most often heard. But in 1885 a deterioration of his nervous system put an end to composing, and the last half-century,where for a time was mayor of Marnes-les-Coquette.He brought out a definite edition of his songs in 1911 but, after working on an opera 'Roussalka'(based on Pushkin) from 1885 to 1895, he finaly burnt the score.
The best of his songs,though,rival any in either the French or German repertory, so that he must be regarded as a major composer of his time.
Henri Duparc - Lénore, poème symphonique d'après Bürger (1874-75)
http://youtu.be/UXcjpIACsa4
* January 22
Birth of ROSA PONSELLE 1897 in Meriden, CT.
American soprano of Italian parentage. She first sang in film theatres and vaudevilles and took lessons from William Thorner and Romano Romani, who recommended her to Caruso.His influence led to her opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as Leonora in 'La forza del destino'(1918), which was one of the most sensational events in the Metropolitan's history.
She was soon established as one of the outstanding sopranos of her time, and for the next 19 years at the Metropolitan Opera she sang 22 dramatic roles, notably Norma, Donna Anna,Violetta,Rachel (La Juive), and Santuzza.She achieved similar success at Covent Garden.
Rosa Ponselle - Pace, pace mio Dio (1928) RARE!
http://youtu.be/_hv7JpTYZRc
* JANUARY 22
Birth of VINCENZO RIGHINI 1756 in BolognaItalian composer. After studying with Martini, he sang in Florence and Rome before joining Giuseppe Bustelli's opera company in Prague as a tenor and writing his first operas. By 1777 he had moved to Vienna,where he established himself as a singing teacher. He was engaged to substitute for Salieri at the court opera before he moved to Mainz, Trier, and in 1793 to the Prussian court in Berlin as Kapellmeister. His compositions include more than 150 songs,sacred pieces, cantatas, and piano works, as well as operas which increasingly typified the
Franco-Italian fusion favoured in Berlin.
Vincenzo Righini - Alcide al bivio - Aria: "non verranno a turbarti"
http://youtu.be/QSAh6p-NrBU
* JANUARY 23
Death of Dame CLARA BUTT
http://youtu.be/iefmyjEv6_0
* JANUARY 23
Death of JOHN FIELD
A year later, having concluded hia apprenticeship with Clementi, he was in great demand in London as a concert pianist. In 1802 ha accompanied Clementi on a continental business tour, to Paris, Vienna, and finally St Petersburg. There he becamethe darling of Russian aristocratic society and earned a comfortable living as a pianist and teacher of wealthypupils. In 1831 he returned to London seeking medical attention for cancer and was operated on with partial success. He then undertook concerts in London and Manchester, as well as playing his Seventh Piano Concertoin Paris in December 1832. After concerts in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy he became increasingly illbut gave three concerts in Vienna before arriving back in Moscow in September 1835.He died there 16 months later.
http://youtu.be/CPTFlFWBVss
* JANUARY 23
Birth of MUZIO CLEMENTI
He was buried in the cloister of Westminster Abbeywith great ceremony and adulation.
http://youtu.be/XlTElcKMoQ0
* JANUARY 23
Death of SAMUEL BARBER1981 in New YorkAmerican composer. At the age of 14 he enterede the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where he studied composition with Rosario Scalero, and where from 1931 to 1933 he taught the piano.
From then he earned his living from the music.
The opulent,openly Romantic style of his early works is well shown in the String Quartet in B minor (1936), whose slow movement, orchestrated as the Adagio for Strings, quickly gained wide popularity. Much of Barber's best music is to be found in his vocal works, which include two operas introduced at the Metropolitan in New York, 'Vanessa'(1958) and 'Antony and Cleopatra'(1966).
http://youtu.be/RRMz8fKkG2g
* JANUARY 24
Birth of Broschi Carlo FARINELLI
http://youtu.be/NWMOmBohlTE
* JANUARY 24
Death of FRIEDRICH von FLOTOW1883 in DarmstadtGerman composer. He studied with Reicha and Pixis in Paris, where his first ten operas were produced. His firstmajor German Romantic opera was 'Alessandro Stradella (1844), based on an episode in that composer's adventurous life. His greatest success was 'Martha'(1847), in which 'opera comique'provides the main influence, though some of the vocal writing is strongly Italianate. The 1848 Revolution led him to return to Germany. He moved to Vienna in 1852, then became director of the grand-ducal court opera in Mecklenburg,1885-62.
He settled on the family estate at Toitendorf in 1873. None of his later works,whether French or German, achieved anything like the success of 'Stradella'or 'Martha'.
http://youtu.be/Mu1vkHll0IY
* JANUARY 24
Death of CONRAD PAUMANN
He was born blind. By 1446 he was organist at St Sebaldus, Nuremberg, and he was appointed town organist in1447. Three years later he accepted the post of court organist at Munich,and from there he travelled widely in Germany,France,and Italy, where he was knighted. His best wnown work,a composition manual for the organ called 'Fundamentum organisandi (1452) includes arrangements of German lieder. Little of his music survives, however. Presumably most of it was played extempore or from memory and was never notated. He is buried in the Frauenkirche, Munich; an epitaph there shows him surrounded by instruments.
http://youtu.be/i56YtRgwnQc
* JANUARY 25
Death of ROBERT PARSONS
1572 in Newark-on-TrentEnglish church musician and composer.In 1563 he was made a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal;earlier he mayhave been a chorister of the choir.His death,by drowning in the river Trent,probably occured when he was still young,since a eulogy refers to him having been cut down in 'first flower'.His earliest works date from the 1550s,but the majority are Elizabethan.They include consort music,songs,motets,and a small quantity of English church music.Several of his compositions were influential on William Byrd,who subsequently filled his position at the Chapel Royal.
http://youtu.be/f2WrDvI847g
* JANUARY 26Death of CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB NEEFE
1798 in DessauGerman composer. He began composing when he was 12, later studying law, then composition with J.A.Hiller. He worked with travelling troupes, and in Bonn became one of Beethoven's first teachers.
In 1794 he was appointed director of the Dessau thyeatre.
His songs show some anticipation of the Romantic lied, and in his 'Singspiele'he can extend the conventions to lively dramatic effect.
http://youtu.be/hKZd2KYflok
* JANUARY 26
Birth of JACQUELINE DU PRE
1945 in Oxford English cellist.
From 1955 she studied with William Pleeth, later with Tortelier, Casals,and Rostropovich, and began her short but hugely successful career with a recital in 1961 at the Wigmore Hall, London.
Married to the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, she played in concerts throughout the world.
Her distinctively physical playing style was eloquently suited to the Schumann and Elgar concertos.
In 1973 multiple sclerosis forced her to retire from the concert hall, but her beauty of tone and dazzling natural technique is preservedon many recordings.
http://youtu.be/Qbs2H_PvGpE
* JANUARY 26
(από * Magda Riga) Σαν σήμερα το 1911 πρώτη παρουσίαση του R.Strauss - Rosenkavalier
στη Δρέσδη.
Synopsis Der Rosenkavalier
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=21
Hab' mir's gelobt (Thielemann)
http://youtu.be/BBJQ-CYNs00
* JANUARY 27
Birth of WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
1756 in SalzburgAustrian composer.For details SEE Dec.5th entry (music diary)
http://youtu.be/JcUh-ggBfzI
* JANUARY 27
Death of GIUSEPPE VERDI
1901 in MilanItalian composer. For details SEE Oct.10th
( music diary )
http://youtu.be/y0EAL3vXZrM
* JANUARY 27
Birth of EDOUARD LALO
http://youtu.be/fanW2dQHmto
* JANUARY 27
Birth of JUAN CRISTOFORO ARRIAGA
1806 in BilbaoSpanish violinist and composer. His first opera, 'Los Esclavos Felices', when written and produced in Bilbao when he was only 13. In 1821 he entered the Paris Conservatoire,and before his untimely death he composed three string quartets,two sacred works, a second opera and some incidental music, a handful of piano studies, two overtures, and an attractive symphony in D,which is still performed. With the Spanish nationalism in the 1850s, Arriaga became a cult figure,and the elegant substance of the symphony and quarters in particular go far towards justifying his fame.
http://youtu.be/IEOaGM5iH5o
* JANUARY 27
Death of ERICH KLEIBER
After studying in Prague, he was appointed to the Darmstadt Opera in 1912. Through asuccession of appointments at German opera houses he rose to fame as a meticulous ensemble builder and a conductor of great drilliance and high discipline.
From 1923 to 1934 he was music director of the Berlin State Opera, where he gave premieres of many works, including Berg's 'Wozzeck'.
Opposing the Nazi regime, he lived in exile, exerting great influence at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires (1936-49) and, after the war, as a guest at Covent Garden. His son Carlos(1930-2004) was also a conductor.
http://youtu.be/PiF5glYvfcw
* JANUARY 28 Birth of ARTUR RUBINSTEIN
1887 in LodzPolish-born American pianist.For details SEE entry Dec.20th (music diary)
http://youtu.be/iEKJY6A_cnc
* JANUARY 28
Birth of Sir JOHN TAVENER
http://youtu.be/BkgN9OjMXgw
* JANUARY 28
Death of REYNALDO HAHN
He was much in demand as a salon singer and as a singing teacher. Happily, a good number of his recordings are available on CD. He took aparticular interesr in Mozart, conducting 'Don Giovanni' at Salzburg in 1906 and in 1925 writing an operetta 'Mozart', following the success of 'Ciboulette' (Paris,1923). Perhaps the best of his more serious works are the powerful Piano Quintet (1922) and the opera 'Le Merchand de Venise' (Paris,1935).
In 1945 he was made a member of the Institut and appointed director of the Paris Opera.
* JANUARY 29
death of FERRUCCIO TAGLIAVINI 1955 in Reggio nell'Emilia
By 1945 he was one of Italy's most sought-after tenors for lyrical bel canto roles, and his fame spread internationally when he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York,in 1947. One of his greatest successes was as Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, in which he was praised for his agile and mellifluous singing and his engaging comic acting.
He was also impressive in the tragic title role of Massenet's Werther.
Ferruccio Tagliavini "Pourquoi me reveiller?" Werther
http://youtu.be/WLelIQ00yXo
* JANUARY 29
Birth of FREDERICK DELIUS 1862 in Bradford
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Frederick Delius Piano Concerto Part I
http://youtu.be/RubafY-0usk
* JANUARY 29
Birth of DANIEL FRANCOIS ESPRIT AUBER 1782 in Caen
He was much honoured, becoming director of the Paris Conservatoire in 1842 and maitre de chapelle to Napoleon III in 1852.
Daniel Auber - La muette de Portici - "Amis, le soleil va paraitre" (Alfredo Kraus)
http://youtu.be/q3Fwo7Uj9Sk
* JANUARY 29
Birth of GEORG CHRISTOPH WAGENSEIL 1715 in Vienna
Austrian composer.He was the son of an official at the Habsburg court.His most important teacher was Fux,on whose recommendation he was appointed court composer in 1739.In 1745 he travelled to Venice for the premiere of his first opera'Ariodante',and over the first 15 years he cemented his reputation as an opera composer with a series of successful works.He played an important role in the development of the Viennese Classical style.His symphonies were models of Haydn's early works.Most of his numerous keyboard concertos are chamber works that make only modest demands on amateur performers,but they were well known in the Mozart household in Salzburg and influenced the style and form of Wolfgang's earliest concertos.
Georg Christoph Wagenseil - Concerto for Harp, Two Violins and Cello - Allegro
http://youtu.be/NognD74Ixhk
* JANUARY 30
Birth of JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ 1697 in Oberscheden,nr Gottingen
Johann Joachim Quantz - Concerto in G major - 1. Allegro Assai (flauto traversiere)
http://youtu.be/0t3EMPmpgUE
* JANUARY 30
Francis Poulenc - Aubade (1929) [1/2]
http://youtu.be/b62j1LHwwEE
* JANUARY 31
Birth of FRANCOIS DEVIENNE
1759 in Joinville, Haute-MarneFrench composer. He joined the Paris Opera orchestra in 1779 before entering the service of Cardinal de Rohan. In the 1780s his works began to be performed in various concert series, including the Concert Spirituel, but he became famous as a composer only after the Revolution. He wrote his first opera comique in 1790; two years later came the popular 'Les Visitandines, which enjoyed performances throughout the 19th century. His flute method remained in use until recent times. His many compositions include chamber music and concertos for wind instruments.
http://youtu.be/kkeL_4h8OIY
* JANUARY 31
Birth of FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT
1797 in ViennaAustrian composer.
For details SEE Nov.19th (music diary
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