Events in Music
Events 1 - 5 of 5
1770 - Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"
1863 - Franz Schuberts "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig
1960 - Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars
1962 - Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful
1976 - "Musical Jubilee" closes at St James Theater NYC after 92 performances
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 66 of 66
1628 - Christoph Bernhard,
German composer
1652 - Johann Krieger,
composer
1697 - Johann Pfeiffer,
composer
1723 - Christian Friedrich Gregor,
composer
1748 - Giovanni Furno,
composer
1777 - Micah Hawkins,
composer
1784 - William Beale,
composer
1800 - Sydney Nelson,
composer
1800 - Vaclav Horak, composer
1831 - William Joseph Westbrook,
composer
1843 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky,
composer
1853 - Hans Koessler,
composer
1862 - Snitz Edwards,
Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera)
1865 - Giuseppe Ferrata,
composer
1874 - Hugo Leichtentritt,
composer
1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman,
composer
1885 - Roland Diggle,
composer
1889 - Alexander Smallens,
St Petersburg, Russia, conductor
1889 - Tadeusz Jarecki, composer
1892 - Artur Rodzinski,
Spalato, Dalmatia, Poland, conductor/composer
1892 - Miklos Radnai, composer
1895 - Nathaniel Shilkret,
NYC, conductor
1896 - Maurice Jacobson,
composer
1896 - Yitzhak Edel, composer
1898 - Viktor Ullmann,
opera composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis)
1899 - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa,
composer
1899 - Raymond Loucheur, composer
1900 - Xavier Cugat,
Barcelona Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo)
1902 - Dimiter Nenov,
composer
1906 - Giovanni D'Anzi,
Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
1907 - Erich Schmid,
composer
1911 - Endre Szervanszky,
composer [or Dec 27]
1916 - Earl Wrightson,
Balt Md, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue)
1919 - Bernard Drukker,
Dutch organist/pianist/orchestra leader (Devil's Wheel)
1920 - Virgilio Savona,
Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1926 - Claire Polin [Schaff],
composer flautist/musicologist
1927 - Juliusz Luciuk,
composer
1930 - Werner Heiden,
composer
1931 - Carel Brons,
composer
1933 - Anders Bo Leif Linde,
composer
1935 - Harold Martina,
Netherland Antilles, pianist/conductor
1936 - Eve Queler,
NYC, conductor
1940 - Laszlo Sary,
composer
1940 - Richard Henry Orton, composer
1942 - Country Joe McDonald,
California, rock guitarist/vocalist (& the Fish)
1942 - George Couroupos, composer
1942 - Judy Stone, Australian pop singer
1947 - Gary "BB" Coleman,
blues vocal/guitarist/producer
1947 - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
1949 - Daniel E Gawthrop,
American composer
1950 - Morgan Fisher,
rock keyboardist (British Lions)
1951 - Jaco Pastorius,
rocker
1953 - Alpha Blondy,
[Seydou Kone], Ivory coast, reggae singer (Jerusalem)
1953 - Kevin Hangon, composer
1953 - Rochelle S Abramson, violinist
1953 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy)
1954 - Fr David,
Paris France, rocker
1958 - Grandmaster Flash,
[Joseph Saddler], NYC, rocker (Message)
1962 - Ari Up,
German musician (The Slits)
1967 - Tim Dog,
American rapper
1968 - Miki Higashino,
Japanese composer
1972 - DJ Shadow,
American DJ and songwriter
1978 - Tarik O'Regan,
British composer
1979 - Brody Dalle,
Australian singer (The Distillers)
1984 - Shareefa,
American singer
1987 - Meryl Davis,
American ice dancer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 36 of 36
1701 - Pietro Sanmartini,
composer, dies at 64
1753 - Louis-Maurice de La Pierre,
composer, dies at 55
1768 - Jean-Laurent Krafft,
composer, dies at 73
1777 - Emanuele Barbella,
composer, dies at 58
1782 - Johann Christian Bach,
German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46
1789 - Christleib Siegmund Binder,
composer, dies at 65
1816 - Francois Alexander Sallantin,
composer, dies at 60
1818 - Fedele Fenaroli,
composer, dies at 87
1850 - Raphael G Kiesewetter,
Austria musicologist, dies at 76
1906 - Joseph Miroslav Weber,
composer, dies at 51
1907 - Cyrill Kistler,
composer, dies at 58
1942 - Jaroslav Jezek,
composer, dies at 35
1945 - Vit Nejedly,
composer, dies at 33
1948 - Hermann K J Zilcher,
German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66
1948 - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73
1953 - Hank Williams,
country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29
1958 - David Broekman,
musican (Think Fast), dies at 55
1964 - Otto Emanuel Olsson,
composer, dies at 84
1965 - Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo,
composer, dies at 66
1967 - Moon Mullican,
rocker, dies at 58
1981 - Hephzibah Menuhin,
American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
1984 - Alexis Korner,
British blues musician (b. 1928)
1992 - Constantin Poustochkine,
jazz critic, dies
1992 - Corky Geil, dancer, dies in Long Beach CA at 64
1995 - Jess Stacy,
US jazz pianist (Great Gatsby), dies at 90
1995 - Ted Hawkins, US blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58
1996 - Hamish Imlach,
folk singer/comic, dies at 55
1997 - Townes Van Zandt,
musician, dies at 52
1997 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
2006 - Bryan Harvey,
American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
2007 - Julius Hegyi,
American conductor (b. 1923)
2007 - Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
2007 - Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
2011 - Marin Constantin,
Romanian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2012 - Fred Milano,
American doo-wop singer, member of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, dies from lung cancer at 72
2012 - Yafa Yarkoni, Israeli Singer, dies after years of Alzheimer's disease at 86
