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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