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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