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Music Almanac - May

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May 1
1786 - First performance of Mozart's 'Marriage of Figaro' - (Vienna)
1904 - Czech composer Antonin Dvorak died today in Prague
1978 - Composer Aram Khachaturian also died today (Moscow)
May 2
1660 - Birth of Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti (Napoli)
1864 - German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer died today (Paris)
1936 - Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf' first performed at a children's concert, by the Moscow Philharmonic
May 3
1794 - First performance of Haydn's 'Clock' Symphony (London)
1923 - Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' first performed (Paris)
May 4
1665 - Happy Birthday to Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the first practical Pianoforte (Padua, Italy)
1886 - The first phonogramph (gramophone) was patented
1888 - Premiere of Faure's 'Requiem'
1955 - Composer Georges Enescu died in Paris
May 5
1917 - Claude Debussy's last public performance as a pianist (Paris)
May 6
1897 First performance of Leoncavallo's 'La Boheme' (Venice)
May 7
1825 - Death of Italian composer Antonio Salieri (Vienna)
1833 - Birth of German composer Johannes Brahms (Hamburg)
1840 - Happy Birthday also to Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Votkinsk, Russia)
May 8
1846 - Birth of German opera composer Oscar Hammerstein
1924 - Arthur Honegger's 'Pacific 231' first performed
May 9
1525 - Birthday to Italian composer Giovanni Palestrina
1707 - Organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehunde died (Lubeck)
1868 - Bruckner's First Symphony's first performance with the Composer conducting (Linz)
May 10
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May 11
1916 - Composer Max Reger died (Leipzig, Germany)
May 12
1842 - French composer Jules Massenet's birthday (Montaud, France)
1845 - Birth of composer Gabriel Faure (Pamiers, France)
1884 - Death of Bedrich Smetana (Prague, Bohemia-Czech)
May 13
1842 - Happy Birthday to comic opera composer Arthur Sullivan (London)
May 14
1832 - 'Hebrides' (Fingal's Cave) Overture by Mendelssohn first performed (London)
1931 - Conductor Arturo Toscanini refuses to open his concert with playing of Fascist hymn (Bologna, Italy)
May 15
1567 - Birth of Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (Cremona, Italy)
May 16
1870 - Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet' Fantasy Overture's first performance (Moscow).
May 17
1866 - Happy Birthday to French composer Erik Satie (Honfleur)
1935 - Composer Paul Dukas died today (Paris)
1978 - Philips Electronics announces the 'Compact Disc'
May 18
Death of composers Isaac Albeniz (1909), Gustav Mahler (Vienna 1911) and Leroy Anderson (1975)
May 19
1954 - Composer Charles Ives died today (New York)
May 20
1896 - Death of composer, pianist and wife of Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann (Wieck) (Frankfurt, Germany)
May 21
1904 - "Fats" Waller's birthday (New York)
May 22
1813 - Birth of German composer Richard Wagner (Leipzig)
May 23
1934 - Born, the inventor of the synthesizer - Robert Moog
May 24
1810 - First performance of Beethoven's 'Egmont' Overture (Vienna)
1911 - Composer Edward Elgar conducts, for the first time, his 'Symphony No. 2' (London)
1941 - American pop composer and singer Bob Dylan's birthday (Duluth, MN, USA)
1974 - The death of American Jazz composer Edward 'Duke' Ellington (New York)
May 25
1926 - Legendary Jazz trumpet player Miles Davis was born today (Alton, IL, USA)
1934 - Death of English composer Gustav Holst (London)
May 26
1967 - The release of 'The Beatles' album "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band"
May 27
1840 - Italian composer and violinist Nicolo Paganini died today (Nice, France)
1906 - Mahler first conducts his 'Symphony No. 6' (Essen)
May 28
1787 - Death of composer, and Wolfgang's father - Leopold Mozart (Salzburg)
1805 - Death of Italian composer Luigi Boccherini (Madrid, Spain)
1923 - Birth of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti
1938 - First performance of Paul Hindemith's opera 'Mathis der Mahler' (Zurich)
May 29
1860 - Birth of Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz (Camprodon, Spain)
1910 - Death of composer Mily Balakirev (St. Petersburg, Russia)
1912 - Claude Debussy's ballet version of 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun' First performance (Paris)
1913 - First performance of Stavinsky's 'Rite of Spring' under Diaghilev (Paris)
May 30
1866 - First performance of Smetana's 'The Bartered Bride' (National Opera in Prague)
1909 - Happy Birthday to American clarinist Benny Goodman
May 31
1809 - Great Classical composer's Franz Joseph Haydn died (Vienna)

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