Events in Music
Events 1 - 8 of 8
1724 - George F Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in London
1816 - Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1917 - Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premieres in NYC
1934 - Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
1940 - Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
1960 - Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig.
1965 - Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
1991 - 33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 59 of 59
1656 - Johannes Schenck,
German/Neth composer, baptised
1734 - Franz Ignaz Beck,
composer
1745 - Johann Peter Salomon,
composer
1752 - Charles Broche,
composer
1763 - Adalbert Gyrowetz,
composer
1770 - Ferdinando Carulli,
composer
1791 - Carl Czerny,
Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)
1802 - Charles-Auguste de Beriot,
Belgian violinist/composer
1803 - Friedrich Theodor Frohlich,
composer
1816 - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski,
composer
1854 - Louis F M van Westerhoven,
actor/singer/opera director (Youth)
1874 - Mary Garden,
Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
1876 - Fyodor Akimenko,
composer
1887 - David McKinley Williams,
composer
1889 - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky,
composer
1899 - Leon Woizikowski,
Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)
1900 - Antonio Veretti,
composer
1903 - Karel Janacek,
composer
1904 - Armin Loos,
composer
1907 - Nadine Conner,
California, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
1911 - Robert Guyn McBride,
Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
1913 - Jozef Kresanek,
composer
1916 - Julius Juzeliunas,
composer
1920 - Armin Schibler,
Dutch Swiss composer (Devil in the Winter Palace)
1921 - Nurv Shiner,
singer
1921 - Ruth Gipps, British(?) conductor/composer
1929 - Toshiro Mayuzumi,
Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
1937 - David Ackles,
Illinois, vocalist/songwriter (American Gothic)
1937 - Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist (Feel Like Making Love)
1939 - Barbara Ellis,
Olympia Wa, rocker (Fleetwoods)
1939 - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher
1940 - Barbara Laine Ellis,
singer
1940 - Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor
1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie,
Maine, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
1944 - Lew Soloff,
Bkln NY, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1945 - Alan Hull,
singer/composer
1946 - J[erome] Geils,
NYC, rock guitarist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1948 - Barry Wordsworth,
conductor
1948 - Billy Zoom, musician
1950 - Walter Becker,
NYC, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg)
1951 - Kathy Baillie,
Morristown NJ, country vocalist (Baille Boys-Oh Heart)
1951 - Randy California, [Wolfe], Cal, guitarist (Spirit-I Got a Line on You)
1953 - Riccardo Chailly,
Milan Italy, conductor (West Berlin Symph Orch)
1953 - Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
1954 - Jon Brant,
rock bassist (Cheap Trick)
1960 - Kee Marcello,
rocker (Europe-Final Countdown)
1960 - Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest)
1960 - Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
1962 - Joel Ellis,
rocker
1963 - Ian Brown,
English rock vocalist (Stone Roses-Made of Stone)
1964 - Terry Ilous,
rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket) [or Jun 28]
Rocker Kurt Cobain (1967)
1967 - Kurt Cobain,
rock vocalist (Nirvana)/husband of Courtney Love
1972 - K-OS,
Canadian musician/rapper
1975 - Brian Littrell,
singer (Backstreet Boys)
1976 - Ed Graham,
English drummer (The Darkness)
1977 - Amal Hijazi,
Lebanese singer and model
1981 - Chris Thile,
American musician
1985 - Yulia Volkova,
Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1988 - Rihanna,
Barbadian singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 34 of 34
1626 - John Dowland,
composer, dies
1628 - Gregor Aichinger,
German composer/organist, dies at about 63
1731 - Frederich Karl Erbach,
composer, dies at 50
1786 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht,
composer, dies at 70
1809 - Johann Joseph Emmert,
composer, dies at 76
1810 - Johann Friedrich Kranz,
composer, dies at 57
1817 - Martin de Ron,
composer, dies at 27
1845 - Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov,
composer, dies at 57
1851 - Josef Alois Ladurner,
composer, dies at 81
1904 - Gustav Adolf Heinze,
composer, dies at 83
1911 - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov,
composer, dies at 56
1911 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76
1941 - La Bolduc,
French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1942 - Guido Gasperini,
composer, dies at 76
1946 - Hugh Allen,
musician, dies
1951 - Howard Brockway,
composer, dies at 80
1959 - Ray McDonald,
dancer, dies of barbituate overdose at 38
1961 - Percy Aldridge Grainger,
Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78
1963 - Ferenc Fricsay,
Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
1963 - Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879)
1969 - Ernest Ansermet,
Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85
1970 - Albert Louis Wolff,
composer, dies at 86
1972 - Herbert Menges,
composer, dies at 69
1973 - Joseph Szigeti,
Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80
1974 - David Monrad Johansen,
composer, dies at 85
1975 - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild,
bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
1984 - Fikret Dzhamil Amirov,
composer, dies at 61
1986 - Francisco Paolo Mignone,
composer, dies at 88
1987 - Ivan Brkanovic,
composer, dies at 80
1996 - Toru Takemitsu,
composer, dies at 65
1997 - Zachary Breaux,
American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
2003 - Ty Longley,
American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
2005 - Pam Bricker,
American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
2009 - Larry H. Miller,
American businessman and owner of the Utah Jazz (b. 1944)
