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Music Almanac - December

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December 1
1822 - Debut of Franz Liszt as concert pianist at the age of 11 (Vienna)
December 2
1877 - Saint-Saëns 'Sampson and Delilah' - first performance (Weimar, Germany)
1990 - Died, American composer Aaron Copland (New York)
December 3
1596 - Happy birthday violin craftsman Nicola Amati (Cremona, Italy)
1721 - Anna Magdalena Wulcken marries composer J.S. Bach (second marriage)
1883 - Birthday of Anton Webern - Austrian composer (Vienna)
December 4
1976 - Composer Benjamin Britten died (Aldeburgh, England)
December 5
1791 - Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, one of the greatest composers, died at age of 35 (Vienna)
1830 - First performance of Berlioz 'Symphonie Fantastique' (Paris)
December 6
1920 - Happy birthday to jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck (Concord, CA, USA)
1846 - Premiere of Berlioz's 'The Damnation of Faust' (Paris)
December 7
1562 - Flemish composer Adrien Willaert died in Venice
1863 - Happy birthday to composer Pietro Mascagni (Livorno, Italy)
December 8
Birth of both Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865) and Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890)
1939 - Happy birthday to Irish flutist James Galway (Belfast)
1980 - John Lennon assassinated by obsessed fan in front of his apartment (New York City)
December 9
1882 - Composer Joaquin Turina was born (Seville, Spain)
1905 - Richard Strauss's opera 'Salome' first performed (Dresden, Germany)
December 10
1822 - Birth of Belgian composer César Auguste Franck (Liege)
1908 - Composer and organist Olivier Messiaen born (Avignon, France)
1987 - Great violinist Jascha Heifetz died (Covina, CA, USA)
December 11
1803 - Birthday of composer Hector Berlioz (Cote-Saint-Andre, France)
December 12
1920 - First performance of Ravel's 'La Valse' (Paris)
December 13
1930 - Stravinsky's 'Symphony of Psalms' - first performance (Brussels, Belgium)
1928 - Walter Damrosch conducts George Gershwin's 'An American In Paris' for the first time (New York)
December 14
1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach died at age 74 (Hamburg, Germany)
December 15
1888 - First performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade'
December 16
1770 - Birthday of composer Ludwig von Beethoven (Bonn, Germany)
1882 - Composer Zoltán Kodály born (Kecskemet, Hungary)
1893 - First performance of Antonín Dvorák's 'New World Symphony' (New York)
1921 - In Algiers, died the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns
December 17
1749 - Happy Birthday to composer Domenico Cimarosa (Aversa, Italy)
1865 - Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony No. 8 first performed, 42 years after it was finished (Vienna)
December 18
1737 - Violin legendary maker Antonio Stradivari died (Cremona)
December 19
1882 - Birthday of violinist, conductor and Israeli Philharmonic orchestra founder, Bronislaw Hubermann (Poland)
1915 - Birth of great French singer Edith Piaf
December 20
1823 - First performance of Schubert's opera 'Rosamunde' (Vienna)
December 21
1890 - First performance of last version of Bruckner's 'Third Symphony' (Vienna)
December 22
1858 - Birth of opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, Italy)
1894 - Debussy's 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun' - first performance (Paris)
December 23
1893 - First performance of the fairy tale opera 'Hansel and Gretel' by Humperdinck (Weimar, Germany)
December 24
1453 - English composer John Dunstable died in London
1871 - Premiere of Verdi's opera 'Aida' to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal (Cairo, Egypt)
1935 - Composer Alban Berg died (Vienna)
December 25
1835 - Birthday to daughter of Franz Liszt, Cosima, who married Richard Wagner
1931 - First radio broadcast of an entire opera: Humperdinck's 'Hansel and Gretel' from New York
December 26
1936 - First concert of the Israeli Philharmonic orchestra - under the baton of Arturo Toscanini (Tel Aviv, Palestine)
December 27
1934 - First performance of Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' (New York)
December 28
1937 - In Paris, the French composer Maurice Ravel died
1963 - Composer Paul Hindemith died today (Frankfurt, Germany)
December 29
1876 - Happy birthday to the Spanish cellist Pablo Casals (Tarragona, Catalonia)
December 30
1904 - Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky was born in St. Peterburg
1921 - Premiere of Prokofiev's opera 'Love For Three Oranges' conducted by the composer (Chicago)
December 31
1865 - Balakirev conducted the first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Symphony No. 1' (St. Petersburg, Russia)

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