Music Almanac -
April
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April 1
1848 -
Gaetano Donizetti
died today in Bergamo (Italy)
1873 - Birth of Russian composer and pianist
Sergei Rachmaninoff
(Semyonouo, Russia)
1917 - Today the world lost
Scott Joplin
, Ragtime music's primary composer (New York)
April 2
1800 -
Beethoven
's first symphony debut in Vienna
1911 - First performance of
Maurice Ravel
's
'Daphnis and Chloe'
at a concert in Paris
April 3
1897 - Johannes
Brahms
died today in Vienna
1911 - First performance of
Sibelius
's
'Fourth Symphony'
conducted by himself (Helsinki, Finland)
April 4
1793 -
Handel
's Oratorio
'Israel in Egypt'
first performed in London
1867 - First performance of
Camille Saint-Saens
's first violin concerto (Paris)
April 5
1803 -
Beethoven
conducts his
Symphony No. 2
in Vienna
1869 - Birthday of composer
Albert Roussel
(Tourcoing, France)
1908 - Austrian
conductor
Herbert von Karajan
was born today
1914 - First performance of
Stravinsky
's Ballet
'Rite of Spring'
(Paris)
April 6
1867 -
Schubert
's
'Unfinished Symphony'
first performed, 39 years after his death (England)
1971 - Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
died today in New-York City
April 7
1805 - First performance of
Beethoven
's
Symphony No 3, 'Eroica'
(Vienna)
April 8
1703 - Today
J.S. Bach
began to play as violinist, in the chamber orchestra in Weimar
1858 - Death of
Anton Diabelli
who composed the waltz which Beethoven used for his
"Diabelli Variations"
April 9
1794 - Happy Birthday to the inventor of the modern
flute
Theobald Bohm
April 10
1868 - First performance of
Brahms
's
"German Requiem"
1930 - Birthday of
jazz
pianist and composer Claude Bolling (Cannes, France)
April 11
1970 -
"The Beatles"
topped the charts with one of the finest songs ever -
"Let It Be"
April 12
1684 -
Violin
craftsman
Nicolo Amati
died today (Cremona, Italy)
1826 - First performance of
Carl Maria von Weber
's opera
"Oberon"
(London)
April 13
1377 - French poet and composer
Guillaume De Machaut
died today
1742 - First performance of
Handel
's
'Messiah'
in Dublin
April 14
1759 - Death of German born composer
G. F. Handel
(London)
1933 - Happy Birthday to teacher and composer
Morton Subotnik
(L.A., USA)
April 15
1652 - Birth of Italian cellist and composer
Domenico Gabrielli
in Bologna
1728 - First performance of
J.S. Bach
's
'St. Matthew Passion'
in Leipzig
1902 - First performance also of
Ravel
's
'Pavanne for a Dead Princess'
(Paris)
April 16
1889 - Birth of movie actor, director and composer Charlie Chaplin (London)
1924 - Happy Birthday also to American composer and
conductor
Henry Mancini (Cleveland)
April 17
1970 - Today
"The Beatles"
officially ceased to work together, as McCartney's first solo album was released
April 18
1605 - Birth of composer
Giacomo Carissimi
(Marino, Italy)
1882 - Happy Birthday also to the English
conductor
Leopold Stokowski
1936 - Italian composer
Ottorino Respighi
died today
April 19
1899 - First performance of
Cesar Franck
's
String Quartet
(Paris)
April 20
1759 - Buriel of
Handel
in Westminster Abbey (London)
April 21
1918 - First Performance of
Prokofiev
's
'Classical Symphony'
(Petrograd, Russia)
April 22
1892 - Composer
Eduard Lalo
died today in Paris
1916 - Happy Birthday to American violinist-
conductor
Yehudi Menuhin (New York)
1922 - Jazz composer and Bass player
Charles Mingus
's birthday (Nogales, Arizona, USA)
April 23
1857 - Birth of composer
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
(Naples, Italy)
April 24
1934 - Laurens Hammond patents the first
electric organ
1941 -
Guitarist
John Williams's birth (Melbourne, Australia)
April 25
1926 -
Puccini
's opera
'Turandot'
first performance at La Scala with Toscaninini conducting
April 26
1899 - First performance of
Sibelius
's
'First Symphony'
with the Composer conducting (Helskinki, Finland)
April 27
1891 - Happy Birthday also to composer
Sergei Prokofiev
(Sontzovka, Russia)
1915 -
Alexander Scriabin
, the composer, died in Moscow
April 28
1987 - The first compact disk (CD) was released
April 29
1899 - Happy Birthday to Jazz composer
Edward "Duke" Ellington
(Washington D.C.)
April 30
1902 - First performance of
Debussy
's opera
'Pelleas and Melisande'
(Paris)
1911 - Jascha Heifetz - 10 year old
violinist
performs for the first time in his life (St. Peterburg)
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