Music Almanac - September
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September
1
1653 - Happy birthday to organist and composer Johann
Pachelbel (Nuremberg, Germany)
1854 - Birth of composer Engelbert Humperdinck
(Siegburg, Germany)
1935 - Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa's
birthday
September
2
1397 - Medieval blind composer Francesco
Landini died (Florence, Italy)
1892 - Birth of great violinist
Joseph Szigeti (Budapest, Hungarian)
September
3
590 - The Gregorian chant named after Pope
Gregorius I who was elected today
1596 - Birthday of stringed instrument maker Nicolo
Amati (Cremona, Italy)
September
4
Birth of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner
(1824) and French composer Darius Milhaud (1892)
1907 - Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg died
today (Bergen, Norway)
September
5
Many composers birthday:
1735 - Johann Christian Bach (Leipzig,
Germany)
1781 - Anton Diabelli (Mattsee,
Germany)
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer (Berlin,
Germany)
1912 - John Cage (Los Angeles, USA)
September
6
1944 - Born, Roger Waters, lead singer of the "Pink
Floyd" rock band (Great Bookham, Cambridge, England)
September
7
1936 - Pioneering rock 'n' roll musician known as Buddy Holly
was born in Lubbock, Texas, USA
September
8
1613 - Composer Don Carlo Gesualdo died
1841 - Birth of composer Antonin Dvorák
(Muhlhausen, Bohemia)
1949 - Death of Richard Wagner (Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany)
September
9
1583 - Happy Birthday to organist and composer Girolamo
Frescobaldi
September
10
1935 - The most popular sailor in the world, known as "Popeye",
was heard for the first time on NBC radio
September
11
1962 - A new Beatle, Ringo Starr,
joined John, Paul and George for their first recording session, replacing
Pete Best
September
12
Death of French composers Francois Couperin
(1733) and Jean Philippe Rameau (1764)
1840 - Marriage of Robert Schumann to
Clara Wieck, who will perform
many of his great works
September
13
1819 - Happy Birthday to German pianist and composer Clara
Wieck Schumann
1874 - Birthday of composer Arnold Schönberg
(Vienna)
September
14
1760 - Birth of composer Luigi Cherubini
(Florence, Italy)
September
15
1876 - Birth of conductor Bruno Walter
(Berlin, Germany)
1945 - Death of composer Anton Webern
(Mittersill, Germany)
September
16
1887 - Birth of great music teacher Nadia Boulanger
1920 - Great tenor Enrico
Caruso made his last recording before he died in 1921
September
17
1170 - Early music woman-composer Hildegard
von Bingen died
September
18
1970 - Died at age 27, one of the greatest rock music legends - Jimi
Hendrix (London)
1910 - Birthday to Israeli composer Josef Tal (Poland)
September
19
1908 - Gustav Mahler conducts the first
performance of his 7th Symphony (Prague)
September
20
1957 - Death of great Finnish composer Jean
Sibelius (Järvenpää, Finland)
September
21
1874 - Composer Gustav Holst's birthday
(Cheltenham, England)
September
22
1869 - First performance of Wagner's opera
'Das Rheingold' (The Rhein's gold) in Munich
September
23
1835 - Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini
died (Puteaux, France)
September
24
1941 - Born, Linda Eastman, photographer, singer and wife of Paul McCartney
from "The Beatles"
1964 - 'The Animals' mega-hit 'House of the Rising
Sun' on top of charts
September
25
1683 - Birth of composer Jean-Philippe Rameau
(Dijon, France)
1906 - Birthday of composer Dimitri Shostakovich
(St. Petersburg, Russia)
1932 - Birth of legendary and controversial pianist
Glenn Gould (Toronto, Canada)
September
26
1898 - Happy Birthday to composer George
Gershwin (Brooklyn,NY)
1945 - Bela Bartók died (New York)
1957 - Opening of Leonard Bernstein's
broadway production of 'West Side Story'
September
27
1921 - Death of composer Engelbert Humperdinck
(Neustrelitz, Germany)
September
28
1918 - First performance of Stravinsky's
'The Story of a Soldier' (Lusanne, Switzerland)
1991 - The great Jazz musician Miles
Davis dies in Santa Monica, CA
September
29
1789 - Today Mozart completed 'Clarinet
Quintet, K. 581'
1863 - The premiere of Bizet's opera 'The
Pearl Fishers' (Paris)
1918 - First performance of Gustav Holst's
'The Planets'
(London)
September
30
1791 - First performance of Mozart's opera
'The Magic Flute'
(Vienna)
1935 - Premiere of George Gershwin's
opera - 'Porgy and Bess'
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