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)
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