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Music Almanac - August

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August 1
1893 - Composer Antonin Dvorák finished his 'Piano Quintet in Eb, Op 97' (Spillville, Iowa, USA)
1964 - "The Beatles" song "Hard day's night" on top of the charts
August 2
1774 - First performance of Gluck's opera 'Orpheus and Eurydice' (Paris)
Death of opera singer Enrico Caruso (Naples, 1921) and composer Pietro Mascagni (Rome, 1945)
August 3
1778 - Milan's La Scala Opera House Opening
1829 - First performance of Rossini's 'William Tell' (Paris Opera)
August 4
1782 - Mozart marries Constanze Weber (Vienna)
August 5
1397 - Happy birthday to composer Guillaume Dufay (Bersele)
August 6
1826 - 17 years old Mendelssohn finishes his 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
August 7
1829 - Mendelssohn visits Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides Islands and composes the 'Hebrides' Overture
August 8
1808 - A cantata, first work by 16 years old Rossini, is performed (Bologna, Italy)
1923 - 14 years old Benny Goodman starts his professional career and becomes one of the greatest jazz clarinet performers
August 9
1919 - Composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo died (Montecatini, Italy)
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich died today (Moscow)
August 10
1560 - Birth of German composer Hieronymus Praetorius (Hamburg)
1865 - Happy Birthday to Russian composer Alexander Glazunov (St. Petersburg, Russia)
August 11
1987 - "The Beatles" album - "Sargeant Peppers..." awarded as the best album in last 20 years by the "Rolling Stone" magazine
August 12
Death of Italian composers Giovanni Gabrielli (Venice, 1612), Jacopo Peri (Florence, 1633)
1877 - Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone
Also died today, Composers Leos Janácek (Ostrau, Czech, 1928) and John Cage (New York, 1992)
August 13
1912 - French composer Jules Massenet died today in Paris
August 14
1703 - Johann Sebastian Bach becomes organist in Arnstadt
1876 - First performance of Wagner's 'The Valkyries' (Bayreuth, Germany)
August 15
1907 - Died, one of the greatest violin players - Joseph Joachim (Berlin, Germany)
1922 - Happy Birthday to American composer Lukas Foss
August 16
1613 - Monteverdi becomes the Republic of Venice's Master of Music
1876 - Premire of Richard Wagner's opera 'Siegfried' (Bayreuth, Germany)
August 17
1983 - Ira Gershwin lyricist and George's brother, dies (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
August 18
1750 - Composer and conductor Antonio Salieri was born today. He did not kill Mozart.
August 19
1881 - Birth of Rumanian composer Georges Enescu (Liveni-Virnaz)
1927 Schönberg's String Quartet No. 3, 'The Kolisch Quartet', first performed (Vienna)
August 20
1561 - Happy Birthday to Italian composer Jacopo Peri (Rome)
August 21
1698 - Birth of Italian violin maker Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri (Cremona, Italy)
August 22
1599 - Italian madrigal composer Luca Marenzio died today
Birth of composers Claude Debussy (St.Germain-en-Laye, 1862) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928)
August 23
1937 - Today composer Albert Roussel died (Royan, France)
August 24
1456 - Gutenberg finished printing the first book in history - the Bible
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture cameras
August 25
1870 - Richard Wagner marries Cosima Liszt von Bulow
1918 - Happy Birthday to American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein (Lawrence MA, USA)
August 26
1888 - Tchaikovsky finishes the '5th Symphony'
1860 - Death of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (London)
August 27
1521 - Flemish church music composer Josquin des Préz died
1896 - Inventor of the electronic musical instrument Leon Theremin born (St. Petersburg, Russia)
August 28
1850 - Wagner's 'Lohengrin' first performed - conducted by F. Liszt (Weimar, Germany)
1959 - Bohuslav Martinu died (Basel, Switzerland)
August 29
1958 - Happy birthday to the king of pop music Michael Jackson (Gary IN, USA)
August 30
1763 - Today the 6 years old Mozart demonstrated his 'absolute-hearing' (Frankfurt, Germany)
August 31
1945 - Birth of a great violinist Itzhak Perlman (Tel Aviv, Israel)
1928 - Premiere of Kurt Weill's 'Threepenny Opera' with Libretto by Bertolt Brecht (Berlin)

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