May 2000

This month in classical music history.

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	1 Leo Sowerby, born 1895.	2 Alessandro Scarlatti, born 1660.	3 Marcel Dupre, born 1886. Virgil Fox, born 1912.	4 Gennady Rozhdestvensky, born 1931.	5 Efrem Zimbalist, born 1889.	6 Richard Stilwell, born 1942.
7 Johannes Brahms, born 1833. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born 1840.	8 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, born 1829.	9 Giovanni Paisiello, born 1740. Carlo Maria Guilini, born 1914.	10 Jean Marie Leclair, born 1679.	11 Alma Gluck, born 1884. William Grant Still, born 1895.	12 Gabriel Faure, born 1845.	13 Arthur Sullivan, born 1842.
14 Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn, died 1847. Otto Klemperer, born 1885.	15 Claudio Monteverdi, born 1787.	16 Teatro La Fenice opens in Venice, 1792. American Composers Alliance founded, 1938.	17 Erik Satie, born 1866. Philips premiere the Compact Disc, 1978.	18 Ezio Pinza, born 1892.	19 Dame Nellie Melba (Helen Porter Mitchell), born 1861. Saint-Saens' Third Symphony premieres in London, 1886. Charles Ives, died 1954.	20 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiered in the US, 1846. Clara Schumann, died 1896. Luigi Dallapicola, censured by the Catholic Church for his opera, The Prisoner, 1950.
21 Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci opens in Italy, 1892. Schnittke's cadenza for the Beethoven Violin Concerto is recorded by Gidon Kremer, 1982.	22 Richard Wagner, born 1813. Verdi's Requiem is premiered on the anniversary of its dedicatee, Alessandro Manzoni. Strauss' Four Last Songs are premiered in London, 4 months after his death, 1950.	23 Jean Francais, born 1912.	24 Elgar's Symphony #2 is premiered, 1911. Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle opens in Budapest,1918. Maurice Andre, born 1933.	25 Beverly Sills, born 1929. First all-Xenakis festival in Paris, 1965. Stockhausen's Samstag aus Licht is premiered in Milan, 1984.	26 Ernst Bacon, born 1898. Victor Herbert suffers fatal heart attack in New York City, 1924.	27 Niccolo Paganini dies, 1840. Mahler's Sixth Symphony premieres in Essen, 1906. Thea Musgrave, born 1928.
28 Luigi Boccherini, died 1805. Gyorgy Ligeti, born, 1923. First Glyndebourne Festival, 1934 (Fritz Busch conducts Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.)	29 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, born 1897. Mily Balakirev, died 1910. Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premieres in Paris,1913. Iannis Xenakis, born 1922. Margaret Ruthven Lang, died 1978.	30 King Thibaut IV, trouvre, born, 1201. Smetana's Bartered Bride premieres in Prague, 1866. Bartok's First Violin Concerto premieres in Basle, 50 years after it was given to violinist Steffi Geyer, 1958.	31 Franz Joseph Haydn, died 1809. Franz Strauss (father of Richard) died 1905. Alfred Deller, born 1912. Blomdahl's Aniara, the first space opera, premieres in Stockholm, 1959. Penderecki's Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima is first broadcast by Warsaw Radio.

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