Music Almanac -
August
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August 1
1893 - Composer
Antonin Dvorák
finished his
'Piano Quintet in Eb, Op 97'
(Spillville, Iowa, USA)
1964 -
"The Beatles"
song
"Hard day's night"
on top of the charts
August 2
1774 - First performance of
Gluck
's opera
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
(Paris)
Death of opera
singer
Enrico Caruso (Naples, 1921) and composer
Pietro Mascagni
(Rome, 1945)
August 3
1778 - Milan's La Scala
Opera
House Opening
1829 - First performance of
Rossini
's
'William Tell'
(Paris Opera)
August 4
1782 -
Mozart
marries Constanze Weber (Vienna)
August 5
1397 - Happy birthday to composer
Guillaume Dufay
(Bersele)
August 6
1826 - 17 years old
Mendelssohn
finishes his
'Midsummer Night's Dream'
August 7
1829 -
Mendelssohn
visits Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides Islands and composes the
'Hebrides' Overture
August 8
1808 - A cantata, first work by 16 years old
Rossini
, is performed (Bologna, Italy)
1923 - 14 years old Benny Goodman starts his professional career and becomes one of the greatest jazz
clarinet
performers
August 9
1919 - Composer
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
died (Montecatini, Italy)
1975 -
Dmitri Shostakovich
died today (Moscow)
August 10
1560 - Birth of German composer Hieronymus Praetorius (Hamburg)
1865 - Happy Birthday to Russian composer
Alexander Glazunov
(St. Petersburg, Russia)
August 11
1987 -
"The Beatles"
album -
"Sargeant Peppers..."
awarded as the best album in last 20 years by the "Rolling Stone" magazine
August 12
Death of Italian composers
Giovanni Gabrielli
(Venice, 1612), Jacopo Peri (Florence, 1633)
1877 - Thomas Alva Edison patents the
gramophone
Also died today, Composers
Leos Janácek
(Ostrau, Czech, 1928) and John Cage (New York, 1992)
August 13
1912 - French composer
Jules Massenet
died today in Paris
August 14
1703 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
becomes organist in Arnstadt
1876 - First performance of
Wagner
's
'The Valkyries'
(Bayreuth, Germany)
August 15
1907 - Died, one of the greatest
violin
players - Joseph Joachim (Berlin, Germany)
1922 - Happy Birthday to American composer Lukas Foss
August 16
1613 -
Monteverdi
becomes the Republic of Venice's Master of Music
1876 - Premire of
Richard Wagner
's opera
'Siegfried'
(Bayreuth, Germany)
August 17
1983 - Ira Gershwin lyricist and
George
's brother, dies (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
August 18
1750 - Composer and conductor
Antonio Salieri
was born today. He did not kill Mozart.
August 19
1881 - Birth of Rumanian composer
Georges Enescu
(Liveni-Virnaz)
1927
Schönberg
's
String Quartet No. 3, 'The Kolisch Quartet'
, first performed (Vienna)
August 20
1561 - Happy Birthday to Italian composer
Jacopo Peri
(Rome)
August 21
1698 - Birth of Italian
violin
maker
Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri
(Cremona, Italy)
August 22
1599 - Italian madrigal composer
Luca Marenzio
died today
Birth of composers
Claude Debussy
(St.Germain-en-Laye, 1862) and
Karlheinz Stockhausen
(1928)
August 23
1937 - Today composer
Albert Roussel
died (Royan, France)
August 24
1456 - Gutenberg finished printing the first book
in history - the Bible
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture cameras
August 25
1870 -
Richard Wagner
marries Cosima Liszt von Bulow
1918 - Happy Birthday to American composer and conductor
Leonard Bernstein
(Lawrence MA, USA)
August 26
1888 -
Tchaikovsky
finishes the
'5th Symphony'
1860 - Death of British composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
(London)
August 27
1521 - Flemish church music composer
Josquin des Préz
died
1896 - Inventor of the electronic musical instrument
Leon Theremin born (St. Petersburg, Russia)
August 28
1850 -
Wagner
's
'Lohengrin'
first performed - conducted by F.
Liszt
(Weimar, Germany)
1959 -
Bohuslav Martinu
died (Basel, Switzerland)
August 29
1958 - Happy birthday to the king of
pop music
Michael Jackson (Gary IN, USA)
August 30
1763 - Today the 6 years old
Mozart
demonstrated his 'absolute-hearing' (Frankfurt, Germany)
August 31
1945 - Birth of a great
violinist
Itzhak Perlman (Tel Aviv, Israel)
1928 - Premiere of
Kurt Weill
's
'Threepenny Opera'
with Libretto by Bertolt Brecht (Berlin)
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