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1 Mikhail Glinka, born 1804.  Publishing house Universal Edition is founded in Vienna, 1901. Edo de Waart, born 1941. NY Philharmonic appoints Pierre Boulez to replace Leonard Bernstein, 1969. |
2 Sir Edward Elgar, born 1857. Mascagni's Isabeau (Lady Godiva) is premiered in Beunos Aires, 1911. |
3 Georges Bizet, died 1875. Johann Strauss II, died 1899. American Musicological Association incorporates, 1934. Poulenc's Breasts of Tiresias premieres in Paris, 1947. |
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4 Robert Merrill, born 1922.
Irwin Bazelon, born 1922. Serge Koussevitsky, died 1951. |
5 Orlando Gibbons, died 1625. Carl Maria von Weber, died 1826. Hans Keller, critic, broadcasts on the BBC a faux-work supposedly by Polish composer Piotr Zak, 1961. |
6 Siegfried Wagner, born 1869. Vincent Persichetti, born 1915. Philippe Entremonte, born 1934. Haydn's skull is returned with the composer's remains in Eisenstadt, 1954. |
7 Igor Stravinsky has appendectomy, 1934. Jaime Laredo, born 1941. Britten's Peter Grimes premeired, 1945. |
8 Tomaso Albinoni, born 1671. Robert Schumann, born 1810. Dame Nellie Melba retires after singing La Boheme at Covent Garden, 1926. Orff's Carmina Burana is premiered at Frankfurt, 1937. |
9 Carl Nielsen, born 1865. London Symphony Orchestra formed, 1904. Stanford's Ode to Discord is premiered in London, 1909. |
10 Ernest Chausson, died 1899. Tickhon Khrennikov, born 1913. Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments is premiered in London, 1921. |
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11 Richard Strauss, born 1864. Stockhausen's Kontakte premiered in Cologne, 1960. |
12 Faure is named head of Paris Conservatorie, 1905. Pfitzner's Palestrina premiered in Munich, 1917. Nina Makarova, wife of Aram Khachaturian, conducts her Symphony in Moscow, 1947. |
13 King Ludwig II of Bavaria, died 1886.
Stravinsky's Petrushka is staged in Paris, 1911.
Stravinsky's Les Noces is played in Paris, 1923.
Benny Goodman, died 1986. |
14 Ottaviano dei Petrucci, born 1466. Orlando di Lasso, died 1594. Delibes' Sylvia is staged in Paris, 1876. Douglas Young's Ludwig premiered in Munich, 1986. |
15 Edvard Grieg, born 1843.
Alexander Glazunov attends the Schubert Centennial in Vienna where he defected to the West, 1928.
Jacqueline DuPre married Daniel Barenboim in Jerusalem, 1967. |
16 George Frederich Handel named Kapellmeister, 1710. Schoenberg's Jacob's Ladder premieres in Vienna, 1961. Britten's Death in Venice in performed at Aldeburgh, 1973. |
17 Igor Stravinsky, born 1882. Alois Haba's Die Mutter, the first quarter-tone opera, is premiered, 1931. Isang Yun and his wife are kidnapped in WestBerlin and arrested for espionage, 1967. |
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18 Weber's Die Freischutz is premiered in Berlin, 1821. Eva Marton, born 1848. Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maitre premiered in Baden-Baden, 1955. |
19 Johann Stamitz, born 1717.
Ludwig Spohr first to use a baton, England, 1820.
George Antheil's Ballet Mechanique premiered in Paris, 1926. |
20 Jacques Offenbach, born 1819. Helen Traubel, born 1899. Jehan Alain, died 1940. Andre Watts, born 1946. |
21 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach born, 1732.
Wagner's Mastersingers of Nurenburg opens in Munich, 1868.
Lalo Schifrin, born 1932. |
22 Guiseppe Verdi fails to gain entrance to the Milan Conservatory, 1832.
Peter Pears, born 1910.
Elgar's Coronation March is premiered for King George V and Quenn Mary, 1911. |
23 James Levine, born 1943.
Herbert von Karajan resigns from Vienna State Opera vowing never to work in Austria again, 1964. |
24 Praetorius completed music encyclopedia (the first ever) Syntagma Musicum, 1614.
Harry Partch, born 1901.
Terry Riley, born 1935.
Vaughan-William's Fifth Symphony premieres, 1943. |
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25 Georg Philipp Telemann, died 1767.
Gustave Charpentier, born 1860.
Stravinsky's The Firebird premiered in Paris, 1910.
Milhaud's A Frenchman in New York (related to Gershwin's work) is premiered by the Boston Pops, 1963. |
26 Claudio Abbado, born 1933.
Columbia engineers demonstrate the LP record in NYC, 1948. |
27 Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, died 1729.
BBC uses Beethoven's Fifth motive for morse code signal "Victory" (. . . _), 1941.
George Templeton Strong, Jr died, 1948.
Alan Bush's symphony inspired by Robin Hood premieres in Nottingham, 1949. |
28 Adam's Giselle, premiered in Paris, 1841.
Robert Xavier Rodriguez, born 1946. |
29 Josiah Flagg organizes first miltia band concert in Boston, 1769.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, died 1941. |
30 Jiri Antonin Benda, born 1722.
Franz Schubert completes his final String Quartet, 1826.
Erik Satie composes his first of Three Desiccated Embryos, 1913. |
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