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Music Almanac - July

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July 1
1925 - Today the impressionist composer Erik Satie died (Paris)
1950 - Died Emile Dalcroze - composer and developer of eurhythmics (Geneva, Switzerland)
July 2
1714 - Happy Birthday to composer Christophe Willibald Gluck (Erasbach, Austria)
1900 - First performance of Sibelius's orchestral tone poem 'Finlandia' (Helsinki, Finland)
July 3
1854 - Birth of Czech composer and conductor Leo Janácek (Hukvaldy, Moravia)
July 4
1623 - English composer William Byrd died (Stondon, England)
1903, 1986 - Belgian composer and organist Flor Peeters born and died on the same day!!!
July 5
1897 - Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim was born
July 6
1865 - Birthday to Emile Dalcroze - developer of eurhythmics (Vienna)
July 7
1860 - Composer and conductor Gustav Mahler born (Kalischt, Bohemia)
July 8
1791 - Mus. D. degree is given to Haydn at Oxford. The 'Oxford' Symphony, which is his thesis, is first performed
July 9
1879 - Italian composer Ottorino Respighi born (Bologna, Italy)
July 10
1895 - Birth of German composer Carl Orff (Munich)
1839 - Guitar composer and educator Fernando Sor died (Paris)
July 11
1937 - Today died the man who brought Jazz to the concert hall - George Gershwin (Hollywood, USA)
July 12
1895 - Happy birthday to Oscar Hammerstein - the lyricist & songwriter of 'The Sound of Music' (New York)
July 13
1951 - The 12 tones composer Arnold Schöenberg died (Los Angles)
July 14
1789 - The revolution in France begins as citizens of Paris storm the Bastille
July 15
1857 - Death of the great piano pedagogical figure, Carl Czerny (Vienna)
1959 - Composer and teacher Ernest Bloch died (Portland, OR, USA)
July 16
1948 - Birth of Violinist and Conductor Pinchas Zukerman (Tel - Aviv, Israel)
July 17
1717 - First performance of Handel's 'Water Music' (on the River Thames in London)
July 18
64 - Rome burned on this day while Nero was playing his fiddle
July 19
1812 - Beethoven met the great German poet Goethe (Teplitz, Czech)
1886 - Todat Franz Liszt played for the last time at a concert (Luxembourg)
July 20
1848 - Today, the first Women's Rights Convention, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was held (Seneca Falls, NY, USA)
July 21
1838 - Death of the inventor of the metronome Johann Maelzel (Bavaria)
1920 - Happy Birthday to the great Violinist Isaac Stern (Kremenetz, Russia)
July 22
1985 - Bruce Springsteen became the hottest performer in rock history as 70,000 tickets were sold in 3 hours, to one of his concerts
July 23
1757 - Death of Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti, (son of Alessandro (Madrid, Spain)
July 24
1880 - Composer and teacher Ernest Bloch born (Geneva, Switzerland)
July 25
1788 - Mozart finishes the popular 'Symphony No. 40 in Gm K550'
July 26
1882 - First performance of Wagner's opera 'Parsifal' (Bayreuth, Germany)
1944 - Happy birthday to Mick Jagger, lead singer of the rock band "The Rolling Stones" (Dartford, England)
July 27
1867 - Birthday of Spanish composer Enrique Granados (Lerida, Spain)
July 28
1741 - Italian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi Died (Vienna)
1750 - Death of German composer J.S. Bach (Leipzig, Germany)
July 29
1856 - Sad Death of Robert Schumann in (Enderich, Germany)
July 30
1899 - Birth of English pianist and accompanist Gerald Moore
July 31
1886 - Composer and one of the greatest pianists Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth (Germany)

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