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Important Musical Happenings -- Birthdays & Otherwise
January
13 - Premiere of Stravinsky's Circus Polka (commissioned by Ringling Brothers Circus), 1944 27 - W.A. Mozart b. 1756 28 - Colin F. Artur Rubinstein b. 1887
February
15 - Samantha D. John Adams b. 1947 18 - Premiere of Brahms' Requiem, 1869 28 - Blake B. Geraldine Farrar b. 1882 29 - Jenny B.
March
1 - Douglas Huff (Gerik's 1st Bassoon Teacher) Frederic Chopin b. 1810 3 - U.S. Congress declares The Star Spangled Banner the U.S. National Anthem, 1931 4 - Antonio Vivaldi b. 1678 7 - Maurice Ravel b. 1875 18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov b. 1844 19 - Trisha M. Max Reger b. 1873 21 - J.S. Bach b. 1685 25 - Bela Bartok b. 1881 26 - Beethoven d. 1827 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich b. 1927 31 - Franz Joseph Haydn b. 1732
April
3 - Johannes Brahms d. 1897 5 - Kara W. Herbert von Karajan b. 1908 6 - Igor Stravinsky d. 1971 8 - Meret Fon-Revutzky 17 - Lauren D. 18 - Leopold Stokovski b. 1882
May
2 - Scott N. 7 - Johannes Brahms b. 1833 12 - Gabriel Faure b. 1845 16 - Alyssa L. Walter Liberace b. 1919 22 - Richard Wagner b. 1813 29 - Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) first performed, Paris, 1913
June
1 - Eileen B. Mikhail Glinka b. 1804 Frederica von Stade b. 1945 Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in U.K., 1967 2 - Edward Elgar b. 1857 8 - Robert Schumann b. 1810 11 - Richard Strauss b. 1864 14 - Stefanie P. Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass), 1881 15 - Veronica D. Edvard Grieg b. 1843 17 - Igor Stravinsky b. 1882 25 - Stravinsky's Firebird premieres, Paris, 1910
July
7 - Gustav Mahler b. 1860 10 - Carl Orff b. 1895
August
1 - Francis Scott Key b. 1779 12 - Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph, 1877 14 - Gerik David Crosby b. 1941 1st license plates (Paris), 1893 15 - Jacques Ibert b. 1890 22 - Claude Debussy b. 1862 25 - Leonard Bernstein b. 1918
September
4 - Anton Bruckner b. 1824 14 - Stanton C. Jean-Philippe Rameau d. 1764 26 - George Gershwin b. 1898
October
1 - Curtis Institute of Music opens, 1924 6 - Steven Dibner (Gerik's former teacher; Assistant Principal, San Francisco Symphony) 9 - Giuseppe Verdi b. 1813 12 - Ralph Vaughan Williams b. 1872 16 - Premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Berlin 1912 20 - Charles Ives b. 1874 21 - Georg Solti b. 1912 22 - Franz Liszt b. 1811
November
4 - Felix Mendelssohn d. 1846 12 - Alexander Borodin b. 1833 14 - Aaron Copland b. 1900 16 - Paul Hindemith b. 1895
December
8 - Jean Sibelius b. 1865 11 - Hector Berlioz b. 1803 16 - Ludwig van Beethoven b. 1770 Zoltan Kodaly b. 1882 18 - Premiere of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, St. Petersburg, 1892 23 - Giacomo Puccini b. 1858
see also: Today in Music History & Trivia
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