July 2000
This month in classical music history.
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1 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, died 1784. |
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2 Christoph Willibald Gluck, born 1714.
Sibelius' Suomi, later renamed Finlandia is premiered in Helsingfors, 1900. |
3 Donna Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, born 1590.
Leos Janacek, born 1854.
Ruth Crawford, born 1901.
Rachmaninov starts composing his Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, completed in just six weeks, 1934. |
4 William Byrd, died 1623.
Stephen Collins Foster, born 1826. |
5 Wanda Landowska, born 1879.
Paul Ben-Haim, born 1897.
George Rochberg, born 1918.
Lorin Maazel, makes conducting debut with Toscanini's NBC Orchestra. 1941. |
6 Beethoven writes, but does not mail his first letter to his "Immortal Beloved," 1812.
Vladimir Ashkenazy, born 1937.
Otto Klemperer, died 1973. |
7 Gustav Mahler, born 1860.
Gian-Carlo Menotti, born 1911.
Tippett's The Ice Break, premiered at Covent Garden, 1976. |
8 Haydn receives doctorate from Oxford University, 1791.
Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky's benefactress, hires Claude Debussy as a piano tutor, 1880. |
9 Giovanni Bononcini, died 1747.
Ottorino Respighi, born 1879.
Elizabeth Lutyens, born 1906.
David Diamond, born 1915. |
10 Handel's Athalia, premiered in Oxford 1747.
Haydn begins his Lord Nelson Mass, 1798.
Verdi starts his last opera, Falstaff in 1889.
Carl Orff, born 1895. |
11 Pope Pius IX visits Franz Liszt, 1862.
George Gershwin, died 1937.
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12 Kirsten Flagstad, born 1895.
Faure's full orchestral version of his Requiem, premiered in Paris 1900.
Kathleen Ferrier, debuts at Glydnebourne, 1946.
Henze's We Come to the River, premiered inLondon 1976. |
13 27 yr old Leos Janacek, marries 15 yr old bride.
Richard Strauss is removed from his post as Nazi Reichmusikkammer because of a letter to librettist Stefan Zweig.
Arnold Schoenberg, died 1951. |
14 Jesse L. Lippincott founds first record company, North American Phonograph Co., 1888.
Gerald Finzi, born 1901.
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15 Leopold Auer, died 1930.
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16 Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, premiered in Vienna 1782.
Pinchas Zukerman, born 1948. |
17 Handel's Water Music, premiered in London 1717. |
18 J.S. Bach's Jesu Meine Freunde, premiered in Leipzig 1723.
Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel, the first collaboration with Berthold Brecht, premiered 1927.
Kurt Mazur, born 1927. |
19 Hugo Wolf writes first coded message in Neue Freie Presse to his secret love, Melanie Kochert, wife of his patron! 1888. |
20 Deodat de Severac, born 1872. |
21 Johann Maelzel, inventor of the metronome, died 1838. |
22 Cherubini's Ali Baba, his last opera, premiered in Paris, 1833.
Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat premiered in London, 1919. |
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23 Domenico Scarlatti, died 1757. |
24 Benedetto Marcello, died 1739. |
25 Alfredo Casella, born 1883.
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26 John Field, born 1782.
Wagner's Parsifal, premiered in Bayreuth, 1882. |
27 Enrique Granados, born 1867.
Gustav Kobbe, author of the Complete Opera Book, died, 1918. Ferruccio Busoni, died 1924. |
28 Antonio Vivaldi, died 1741.
J.S. Bach, died 1750.
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29 Robert Schumann, died 1856. Sigmund Romberg, born 1887. |
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30 Felix Mendelssohn composes the theme for his Scottish Symphony in Edinburgh, 1829.
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31 Franz Liszt, died 1886. |
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