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Music Almanac - November

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November 1

1801 - Happy Birthday to composer Vincenzo Bellini (Sicily, Italy)

1923 - Birth of soprano Victoria De Los Angeles (Barcelona, Spain)

November 2

1873 - First performance of 'Variations On a Theme by Haydn' by Brahms (Vienna)

November 3

1899 - Premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera 'The Tsar's Bride' (Moscow)

November 4

1847 - Composer Felix Mendelssohn died in Leipzig, Germany

1882 - First performance of Smetana's 'Ma Vlast'

1924 - Death of French composer Gabriel Fauré (Paris)

1995 - Murder of Israeli Prime-Minister Itzhak Rabin right after singing "A Song for Peace" (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

November 5

1846 - First performance of Schumann's Second Symphony in C (Leipzig, Germany)

1895 - First performance of Richard Strauss' 'Till Eulenspiegel' (Cologne, Germany)

November 6

1672 - Today composer Heinrich Schütz died (Dresden, Germany)

1814 - Instrument maker Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, died

1854 - Happy birthday of American composer and 'March King' John Philip Sousa

1893 - Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky died in St. Peterburg, Russia

November 7

1934 - First performance of Rachmaninoff's 'Rhapsody On A Theme of Paganini'

November 8

1890 - Death of French composer Cesar Franck (Paris)

November 9

1940 - Joaquín Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' first performed (Barcelona, Spain)

November 10

1483 - The birthday of German hymn composer and religious reformer Martin Luther

1668 - Also born today, the French composer and organist François Couperin (Paris)

November 11

1889 - Richard Strauss first conducted his tone poem 'Don Juan' (Weimar, Germany)

November 12

1833 - Happy Birthday to Russian composer Alexander Borodin (St. Petersburg, Russia)

November 13

1868 - Great opera composer Rossini died in Paris

1943 - Leonard Bernstien begins his legendary career as conductor and composer, replacing

ill conductor Bruno Walter

November 14

1900 - Birth of American composer Aaron Copland (New York)

1946 - Death of composer Manuel de Falla (Alta Gracia, Argentina)

November 15

1787 - Composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck died today in Vienna

1920 - First performance of Holst's 'The Planets'

(London)

1928 - Gershwin's 'An American in Paris' first performed (New York)

1942 - First performance of Argentine-born Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim

November 16

1895 - Happy birthday to composer Paul Hindemith (Hanau, Germany)

1908 - Arturo Toscanini's

conducting debut in Verdi's 'Aida'

(New York)

November 17

1959 - Died, the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

November 18

1786 - Birth of German composer Carl Maria Von Weber (Eutin, Germany)

1860 - Polish pianist, composer and Prime Minister Ignace Jan Paderewski's birth (Kurylowka, Russia)

November 19

1828 - Today Franz Schubert died in Vienna at the age of 31

November 20

1943 - Happy birthday to American composer, dancer, choreographer and singer Meredith Monk

November 21

1695 - Death of Henry Purcell (Westminster, England)

November 22

1450 - Happy birthday to composer Jacob Obrecht (Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherland)

1901 - Birth of Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo (Sagunto, Valencia, Spain)

1913 - English composer Benjamin Britten was born (Lowestoft, England)

1928 - Premiere of Ravel's 'Bolero'

(Paris)

November 23

1585 - Death of English composer Thomas Tallis (Greenwich, England)

1834 - First performance of Hector Berlioz's 'Harold In Italy' (Paris)

1946 - Birth of composer Manuel de Falla (Cadiz, Spain)

1933 - Happy birthday to Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki (Debica, Poland)

November 24

1868 - Birth of Scott Joplin, main ragtime composer, (Marshall, TX, USA)

November 25

1901- First performance of Mahler's '9th Symphony' (Munich, Germany)

November 26

1873 - First performance in America of Verdi's opera 'Aida'

November 27

1474 - Died, the French composer Guillaume Dufay (Cambrai, France)

1955 - Also died, the composer Arthur Honegger (Paris)

November 28

1632 - Birth of composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (Florence, Italy)

November 29

1643 - Death of composer Claudio Monteverdi (Venice, Italy)

1797 - Birth of Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (Bergamo, Italy)

1924 - Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini dies (Brussels, Belgium)

November 30

1945 - Happy birthday to Romanian pianist Radu Lupu (Galati, Rumania)