Music Almanac -
February
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February 1
1896 - Today in Turin, Italy - the Premiere of
Puccini
's
"La Boheme"
, Toscanini conducting.
February 2
1594 - Death of Italian composer
Giovanni Palestrina
in Rome at age 68.
1875 - Birthday of legendary
violinist
Fritz Kreisler. Was Born in Vienna, Austria.
1901 - Another
Violin
-hero, Jascha Heifetz, was born in Vilnius, Russia.
1959 - Happy birthday to the late Buddy Holly, ever-popular rock star.
February 3
1809 - Today German composer Felix
Mendelssohn
was born in Hamburg
February 4
1924 -
Pianist
Claudio Arrau performed in America for the first time.
February 5
1816 - First performance of
Rossini
's
"Barber of Seville"
. Rome, Italy.
February 6
1497 - The death of Flemmish composer Johaness Ockeghem
1851 - First performance of
Schumann
's
Third ('Rhenish') Symphony
in Dusseldorf, Germany
February 7
1964 -
"The Beatles"
arrive in the USA on their first tour in America
February 8
1872 - First European performance of
Verdi
's
"Aida"
1908 -
Rachmaninoff
's
Second Symphony
first played, in St. Petersburg, with the composer conducting.
1932 - Happy Birthday to American
pianist
, composer and
conductor
John Williams
February 9
1885 - Birth of Austrian composer Alban
Berg
in Vienna.
1941 - Happy Birthday to American
pop
singer and song-writer Carol King
February 10
1881 - First Performance of
Offenbach
's opera
'Tales of Hoffmann'
in Paris
February 11
1903 - First Performance of
Bruckner
's
Ninth Symphony
, in Vienna, Austria
February 12
1924 - First Performance of
Gershwin
's
'Rhapsody In Blue'
with Gershwin as pianist. New-York.
February 13
1778 - Happy Birthday to Spanish composer Fernando
Sor
(Barcelona)
1883 - German composer Richard
Wagner
died today in Bayreuth
February 14
1867 -
Johann Strauss Jr
's
"On the Beautiful Blue Danube"
- first performance in Vienna
1987 -
Dmitri Kabalevsky
died today in Moscow, Russia.
February 15
1571, 1621 - Birth and death on the same day of German composer
Michael Praetorius
1857 - Russian composer
Mikhail Glinka
died in Berlin.
February 16
1829 - Composer
François Gossec
died today in Paris
1854 - First performance (Weimar) of
Liszt
's
Symphonic Poem
'Orpheus'
February 17
1653 - Italian composer Arcangelo
Corelli
's birthday near Milan
1904 - Also in Milan, at 'La Scala', first performance of
Puccini
's
'Madam Butterfly'
.
1962 - Death of
conductor
Bruno Walter
1982 - Great
Jazz
pianist and composer,
Thelonious Monk
, died today
February 18
1655 - Birthday to Pietro Giovanni Guarneri, great Italian
violin
maker.
1807 - Publication of
Beethoven
's
'Appassionata'
Piano Sonata in f minor, No 23, Op 57
February 19
1743 - Happy Birthday to the Italian composer Luigi
Boccherini
February 20
1770 - Italian composer Ferdinando Carulli was born today
1791 - Birth of Austrian pianist and composer
Carl Czerny
(Vienna)
1816 -
Rossini
's opera
'The Barber of Seville'
first performed (Rome)
1937 - First performance of
Prokofiev
's
'Lieutenant Kije'
(Moscow)
February 21
1836 - French ballet composer
Leo Delibes
's Birthday
1893 - Happy Birthday to Spanish
guitarist
and teacher Andres Segovias
February 22
1810 - Birthday of great Piano composer
Frederick Chopin
1903 - On this day died the Austrian composer
Hugo Wolf
(Vienna)
February 23
1685 - Birth of Baroque's great composer G. F.
Handel
(Halle, Germany)
1934 - English composer Sir Edward
Elgar
died
February 24
1607 - First performance of
Monteverdi
's opera
'Orfeo'
(Mantua, Italy)
1876 - First performance of
Ibsen
's drama
'Peer Gynt'
with
Grieg
's music (Christiania)
February 25
1873 - Happy Birthday to the great Italian
tenor
Enrico Caruso
(Naples)
1904 -
Debussy
's
"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn"
- first performance
1943 - Also born on this day -
George Harrison
- the 'Beatles' guitarist
February 26
1933 - First performance (Paris) of
Bizet
's
Symphony in C
, from a manuscript found 77 years after it was written
February 27
1814 - First performance of
Beethoven
's
Symphony No. 8
(Vienna)
1887 - Russian composer Alexander
Borodin
died in St. Petersburg
February 28
1862 - First performance of
Gounod
's opera
'The Queen of Sheba'
(Paris)
1920 -
Ravel
's
'Le Tombeau de Couperin'
first performed in public (Paris)
February 29
1792 - Birth of Italian composer Gioachino
Rossini
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