Music Almanac -
October
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October 1
1865 - Birthday to French composer
Paul Dukas
(Paris)
October 2
1920 - Composer
Max Bruch
died today (Friednau, Germany)
October 3
1833 -
Berlioz
marries Henrietta Smithson (Paris)
1936 - Birth of American composer
Steve Reich
(New York)
October 4
1970 - 27 years old rock legend
Janis Joplin
died from a drug overdose (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
October 5
1880 - Composer
Jacques Offenbach
dies in Paris
October 6
1600 - First opera ever,
'Euridice'
, by
Jacopo Peri
, at the marriage of Maria d'Medici to Henri IV of France (Florence, Italy)
1927 - First movie music
'The Jazz Singer'
with
Al Jolson
, using audio discs synchronized with the film (New York)
October 7
1955 - Happy birthday to
cellist
Yo-Yo Ma
(Paris, France)
1955 -
"Hey Jude"
, the highest-selling single of
"The Beatles"
, achieved number one status on both the American and British charts
October 8
1585 - Birth of German composer
Heinrich Schütz
(Kostritz, Germany)
October 9
1813 - Birth of Opera composer
Giuseppi Verdi
(Le Roncole, Italy)
October 10
1917 - A great Jazz legend,
Thelonious Monk
was born (Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA)
1935 - First performance on Broadway of
George Gershwin
's Opera
'Porgy and Bess'
(New York)
October 11
1896 - Death of composer
Anton Bruckner
(Vienna)
October 12
1872 - Birthday of English composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
(Down Ampney, England)
1935 - Happy birthday to Italian
tenor
Luciano Pavarotti
October 13
1890 -
Richard Strauss
conducting the first performance of his tone poem
"Macbeth"
(Weimar, Germany)
1941 - Singer and song-writer
Paul Simon
was born in Newark (New Jersey, USA)
October 14
1990 - American conductor and composer
Leonard Bernstein
died (New York)
October 15
1905 - First performance of
Debussy
's
'La Mer'
(Paris)
1964 -
Jazz
composer
Cole Porter
died (Santa Monica, CA, USA)
October 16
1912 - First performance of
Schoenberg
's
'Pierrot Lunaire'
(Berlin, Germany)
1926 - First performance also of
Kodály
's opera
'Hary Janos'
(Budapest, Hungary)
October 17
1707 -
J.S. Bach
and his cousin Maria Barbara married today
1849 - Great piano composer
Frédéric Chopin
died today (Paris)
October 18
1893 - French composer
Charles Gounod
died in Paris
1904 - First performance of
Mahler
's
'Fifth Symphony'
(Cologne, Germany)
October 19
1901 - First performance of
Elgar
's
'Pomp and Circumstance' March
No 1 in D (Liverpool, England)
1987 - Sad day as English great and young
cellist
Jacqueline Dupre died in London
October 20
1874 - Birthday of composer
Charles Ives
(Danbury CN, USA)
October 21
1858 -
Offenbach
's
'Orpheus in the Underworld'
first performed (Paris)
1912 -
Conductor
Georg Solti's birthday (Budapest, Hungary)
October 22
1811 - Birth of the great composer and pianist
Liszt
(Raiding, Hungary)
1973 - Death of
cellist
Pablo Casals (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
October 23
1890 - Premiere of
Borodin
's opera
"Prince Igor"
(St. Petersburg, Russia)
October 24
1725 - Italian composer
Alesandro Scarlatti
died (Naples, Italy)
1913 - Birthday of Italian
baritone
Tito Gobbi
1925 - Birth of Italian composer
Luciano Berio
(Oneglia, Italy)
October 25
1825 - Happy birthday to Austrian composer
Johann Strauss II
(Vienna)
1838 - Also birth of French composer
Georges Bizet
(Paris)
1885 -
Brahms
conducting his
Fourth Symphony in E minor
for the first time (Meiningen, Germany)
October 26
1564 - Happy birthday to
Hans Leo Hassler
- a composer (Nuremberg, Germany)
1685 - Birth of composer
Domenico Scarlatti
, son of Alessandro (Naples, Italy)
October 27
1782 - Composer and violin virtuoso
Niccolo Paganini
's birthday (Genoa, Italy)
October 28
1893 -
Tchaikovsky
conducted his
Symphony No. 6
's first performance a month before his death (St. Petersburg, Russia)
October 29
1787 -
Mozart
's opera
'Don Giovanni'
first performed (Prague)
October 30
1822 -
Schubert
begins his
Symphony in B minor (the 'Unfinished')
October 31
1887 - First performance of
Rimsky-Korsakov
's
'Spanish Caprice'
(St. Petersburg, Russia)
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