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Music Almanac - March

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March 1
1643 - Italian organist and composer Girolamo Frescobaldi in died (Rome)
1810 - There is information about the birth of Frederick Chopin today (Zelazowa Wola, Poland)
March 2
1824 - Birthday to Czech composer Bedrich Smetana (Leitomischi, Bohemia)
1900 - Birthday also to composer Kurt Weill (Dessau, Germany)
1942 - In New-York, Lou Reed was born - the pop songwriter and singer
March 3
1706 - Sad day because of the death of German composer Johann Pachelbel (Nuremberg, Germany)
1802 - First Publication of Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Piano Sonata in C#
1875 - First Performance of Bizet's opera 'Carmen' (Paris)
March 4
1678 - Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice
1877 - First performance of Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake'Notes ballet (Moscow)
March 5
1881 - On this day composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janiero (Brazil)
1953 - Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev died in Moscow
March 6
1844 - The composer Rimsky-Korsakov completes the popular 'Flight of the Bumblebee'
1853 - First performance of Verdi's 'La Traviata' (Venice, Italy)
1932 - On this day John Philip Sousa died in Reading (USA)
1967 - In Budapest the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály died
March 7
1875 - French composer Maurice Ravel born today
March 8
1714 - On this day, composer and third son of J.S. Bach, Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, was born (Weimar, Germany)
1869 - Death of the 'Fantastique' composer Hector Berlioz at the age of 62 (Paris)
March 9
1831 - First performance in Paris, of Violin virtuoso and composer - Nicoló Paganini
1842 - Today, Verdi's opera 'Nabuco' first performed in Milan
1902 - Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler today
1910 - Happy Birthday to composer Samuel Barber (West Chester, PA, USA)
1930 - Composer and Saxophone Jazz player Ornette Coleman's birthday (Fort Worth, TX, USA)
March 10
1892 - Composer Arthur Oscar Honegger born today (La Havre, France)
March 11
1829 - Mendelssohn directs Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' for the First time since Bach's death
1851 - First performance of Verdi's 'Rigoletto' (Venice, Italy)
1950 - Happy Birthday to American Jazz singer and conductor Bobby Mcferrin
March 12
604 - Birth of Pope Gregory, developer of the Gregorian chant
1785 - First performance in Vienna of Mozart's C Major Piano Concerto No 21
1999 - Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist and conductor, died today in Berlin (Germany)
March 13
1842 - Death of Italian composer Luigi Cherubini in Paris
1860 - Birth of Hugo Wolf, lieder composer, (Windisch, Germany)
March 14
1681 - Happy Birthday to composer George Phillip Telemann (Magdeburg, Germany)
1804 - Birthday also of Johann Strauss, Sr. (the father of Johann Strauss jr.) in Vienna
1933 - Also born on the same day Quincy Jones, a Jazz composer and great musician
March 15
1845 - First performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at Gewandhaus (Leipzig, Germany)
1908 - First performance of Ravel's 'Rhapsody Espagnole' (Paris)
March 16
1736 - Italian composer Giovanni Pergolesi died today at age 26 (Pozzuoli, Italy)
March 17
1830 - Debut of Chopin's 'Piano Concerto in f minor' with Chopin himself as soloist (Warsaw, Poland)
1900 - A premiere also of Debussy's 'Chansons de Bilitis'
March 18
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born today (Tikhvin, Russia)
1902 - Enrico Caruso recorded 10 arias for The Gramophone Company - first time in history of classical music
March 19
1873 - Birth of composer, pianist and organist Max Reger (Bavaria, Germany)
1892 - Tchikovsky conducts the first performance of his 'Nutcracker Suite' (St. Petersburg, Russia)
1931 - First performance of Alban Berg's opera 'Wozzeck' in America
March 20
1915 - Birth of great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter (Ukraine)
March 21
1685 - Happy Birthday to "The king of composers" Johann Sebastian Bach (Eisenach, Germany)
1839 - Also born on the same day - composer Modeste Moussorgsky (Russia)
1936 - Death of Russian composer Alexander Glazunov (Paris)
March 22
1687 - Composer Jean Baptiste Lully died in Paris, having struck himself on the foot pounding out the beat
1930 - Birthday of American Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim
1948 - King of Musicals - the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's birthday
March 23
First performances of 3 wonderful masters works:
1729 - Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' (Leipzig, Germany)
1743 - Handel's 'Messiah' (London)
1792 - Haydn's 'Surprise Symphony' No 94 in G (London)
March 24
1916 - Composer Enrique Granados died from the German torpedoing of the 'Sussex' in the English Channel
March 25
1867 - Birth of greatest conductor Arturo Toscanini (Parma, Italy)
1881 - Hungarian composer and pianist Bela Bartok was born today
1918 - Death of great impressionist composer Claude Debussy (Paris)
1947 - Elton John was born today - a pop composer, singer and pianist (Middlesex, England)
March 26
1827 - Giant German composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna
1925 - Birth of modern composer Pierre Boulez (Montbrison, France)
March 27
1745 - First performance of Handel's 'Belshazzar' (London)
1927 - Birthday to Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
March 28
1881 - Russian composer Modeste Moussorgsky died
1943 - Another Russian composer Sergey Rachmaninoff also died today in Beverly Hills California
March 29
1795 - Beethoven's first concert appearance, in Vienna, with his first 'Piano Concerto in C'
1901 - First performance of Alexander Scriabin's complete First Symphony (Moscow, Russia)
1982 - Composer Carl Orff died today (Munich, Germany)
March 30
1945 - The excellent rock guitarist and song writer Eric Clapton was born today
March 31
1703 - Death of son of J.S. Bach - composer Johann Christian Bach (Eisenach, Germany)
1732 - Birthday of great Austrian classical composer Franz Joseph Haydn

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