Music Almanac -
June
Select a day on this month...
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
June 1
1804 - Happy Birthday to Russian composer
Mikhail Glinka
(Novosspaskoye)
June 2
1846 - Debut as a pianist for young
Camille Saint-Seans
(Paris)
1857 - Birth of composer
Edward Elgar
(Broadheath, England)
June 3
Death of composers
Georges Bizet
(1875, Bougival, France) and
Johann Strauss II
(Vienna, 1899)
June 4
1811 - First performance of
Weber
's opera
'Abu Hassan'
(Munich, Germany)
June 5
1826 - Composer
Carl Maria Von Weber
died (London)
June 6
1903 - Happy birthday to Armenian composer
Aram Khachaturian
1924 - First performance of
Mahler
's unfinished
Tenth Symphony
(Prague)
June 7
1897 -
Conductor
and composer George Szell was born today
June 8
1612 - German organist and composer
Hans Leo Hassler
died
Birth of composers
Thomaso Albinoni
(1671, Venice) and
Robert Schumann
(1810, Zwickau, Germany)
First performances of
Ravel
's ballet
'Daphnis and Chloe'
(1912, Paris) and
Carl Orff
's
'Carmina Burana'
(1937)
June 9
1891 - Birthday for Cole Porter - American
popular music
composer
June 10
Death of both composers
Ernest Chausson
(1899, Mantes) and
Frederick Delius
(1934, Grez-sur-Loing)
June 11
1864 - German composer
Richard Strauss
's birthday (Munich)
June 12
None
June 13
1899 - Birth of composer
Carlos Chavez
(Calzada de Tacuba, Mexico)
1911 - Premiere of
Stravinsky
's
'Petrouchka'
(Paris)
June 14
1594 - Death of composer
Orlando di Lasso
(Munich)
June 15
1843 - Birth of Norwegian composer
Edvard Grieg
(Bergen)
1967 - Marriage of pianist-
conductor
Daniel Barenboim and late
cellist
Jacqueline DuPre
June 16
1891 -
Dvorak
receives his Mus.D degree from Cambridge University
June 17
Birth of composers
Charles Gounod
(1818, Paris) and
Igor Stravinsky
(1882, Oranienbaum)
June 18
1821 -
Weber
's opera
'Der Freischutz'
debut (Berlin)
1942 - British
pop
singer and composer Paul Mccartney was born
June 19
1899 - First performance of
Elgar
's
'Enigma Variations'
(London)
June 20
1819 - Birth of composer
Jacques Offenbach
(Cologne, Germany)
June 21
1868 -
Wagner
's opera
'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg'
premiere (Munich)
1908 - Death of Russian composer
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
(Liubensk, Russia)
June 22
1911 -
Elgar
's
'Coronation March'
first played at coronation of King George V and Queen Mary
1974 - French composer
Darius Milhaud
died in Geneva
June 23
1848 - French instrument maker Adolph Sax was born (Paris)
June 24
1854 -
Schubert
's opera
'Alfonso and Estrella'
- the premiere (Weimar, Germany)
June 25
1708 - Today,
J.S. Bach
got a position at Weimar
1767 - Composer
Georg Philipp Telemann
died today (Hamburg)
1910 -
Stravinsky
's
'Firebird'
first performed by Diaghilev's Ballet Russe (Paris)
June 26
1912 - First performance of
Mahler
's
'Ninth Symphony'
after his death (Vienna)
1933 - Happy Birthday to Italian
conductor
Claudio Abbado
June 27
1959 -
Leonard Bernstein
's
"West Side Story"
closed after 734 performances on Broadway (New York)
June 28
1491 - Birth of King of England and part time composer
Henry VIII
June 29
1908 - Birth of American composer
Leroy Anderson
(Cambridge, MA, USA)
1707 - Today
J.S. Bach
resigned his position in Arnstadt
June 30
1936 -
Sergey Rachmaninoff
completed his
'symphony No. 6'
today
MusixCool© By Nadav Dafni