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Events in Music

Events 1 - 8 of 8

1728 - John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]
1781 - Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich
1964 - Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"
1969 - Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1996 - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1996 - 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 - Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 52 of 52

1703 - Carlmann Kolb, composer
1711 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer
1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court) composer/pianist
1782 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer (Fra Diavolo)
1782 - Frantiszek Tucek Scigalski, composer
1784 - Ferdinand Ries, composer
1801 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis)
1824 - Karl von Perfall, composer
1852 - Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer
1862 - Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)
1864 - Adolf Philipp, composer
1869 - Andrey Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1871 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer
1874 - Robert Lach, composer
1876 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
1876 - Havergal Brian, Dresden Staffordshire, composer
1884 - Juhan Aavic, composer
1887 - Albert Conti, Trieste Austria, actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion)
1889 - Francisco Santiago, composer
1889 - Rudolf Mauersberger, composer
1890 - Marguerite Canal, composer
1893 - Edric Cundell, composer
1893 - Martian Negrea, composer
1898 - Fernand Quinet, Belgian cellist/composer/conductor (La Guerre)
1900 - Marco Tajcevic, composer
1915 - John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
1917 - John Raitt, Santa Ana California, actor/singer (Chevy Show, Pajama Game)
1924 - Luigi Nono, Venice Italy, composer (Canonic Variations)
1928 - Bengt Hambraeus, composer
1931 - Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off)
1934 - Paul Gutama Soegijo, composer
1936 - Malcolm Binns, concert pianist
1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
1937 - Bobby Scott, jazz singer
1942 - Claudine Longet, France, former Mrs Andy Williams/singer
1943 - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer
1947 - David Byron, vocalist (Uriah Heep)
1947 - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
1948 - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1948 - Felice Taylor, R&B singer (I Feel Love Comin' On)
1948 - Marc Singer, Vancouver Canada, actor (V, Dallas)
1952 - Tommy Ramone, [Erdelyi], Budapest, Hungary, rock drummer/bassist (Ramones)
1953 - Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
1954 - Dick Manitoba, vocalist (Dictators)
1957 - Irlene Mandrell, Corpus Christi Tx, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
1957 - Jac Bico, Dutch guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
1960 - Cho-Liang Lin, Taiwan, violinist (Queen Sophia 1st prize)
1960 - Eddie Jackson, bassist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1960 - J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
1964 - Roddy Frame, rock vocalist/guitarist (Aztec Camera-Stray)
1969 - Hyde, Japanese singer
1981 - Álex Ubago, Spanish musician

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 20 of 20

1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1916 - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62
1924 - Joseph Ludwig, composer, dies at 79
1942 - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer, dies at 92
1946 - Sidney James Jones, composer, dies at 84
1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at 86
1965 - Michael Spisak, composer, dies at 50
1966 - Pierre Mercure, composer, dies at 38
1967 - Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62
1973 - Johannes Paul Thilman, composer, dies at 67
1980 - Antonio Molina, composer, dies at 85
1981 - Cozy Cole, rocker (Topsy Part II), dies
1987 - Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer, dies at 73
1988 - Bantcho Bantchevsky, US opera singer, commits suicide
1988 - Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 46
1992 - Willie Dixon, blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76
1993 - Michel Renault, French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies
1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
2009 - John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)