Events in Music
Events 1 - 6 of 6
1859 - Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris
1864 - Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris
1870 - The opera "Guarany," premieres in Milan
1975 - "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1989 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
1993 - Ice Dance Championship at Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 46 of 46
1604 - Johan IV,
composer/king of Portugal (1640-56)
1673 - Pedro Vaz Rego,
composer
1715 - Charles-Joseph van Helmont,
composer
1740 - Johann Georg Roser,
composer
1740 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist
1745 - Nicolas Sejan,
composer
1752 - Jose Mauricio,
composer
1767 - Leonhard von Call,
composer
1785 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann,
composer
1809 - Fredrik Pacius,
composer
1816 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst,
composer
1847 - Constantin Dimitrescu,
composer
1873 - Max Reger,
Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ)
1879 - Joseph Haas,
German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)
1883 - Josef Matthias Hauer,
composer
1892 - Robert Denzler,
composer
1904 - Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern,
composer
1906 - Normand Lockwood,
composer
1907 - Elizabeh LeFanu Maconochy,
composer
1907 - Marc Vaubourgoin, composer
1912 - Russ Case,
Hamburg Iowa, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
1917 - Dino Lipatti,
composer
1923 - Janine Dacosta,
French pianist
1929 - Herman van San,
composer
1929 - Robert Muczynski, composer
1930 - Bill Henderson,
Chic Ill, jazz singer (Torpedo-Dreams)
1936 - Amancio D'Silva,
musician
1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry,
musician (You Always Hurt the One You Love)
1942 - Jeff Neighbour,
US bassist (Joy of Cooking)
1942 - Robin Luke, rocker (Susie Darlin')
1944 - Joseph Celli,
composer
1944 - Myung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, cellist (Chung Sisters)
1946 - Paul Atkinson,
rock guitarist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1946 - Ruth Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So Exicted)
1952 - Derek Longmuir,
Edinburgh Scotland, rock drummer (Bay City Rollers)
1953 - Billy Sheehan,
rocker (Mr Big-Lean Into It)
1953 - Ricky Wilson, Athens Ga, rock guitarist (B-52's-Love Shack)
1959 - Terry Hall,
rocker (Colourfield-Animal Liberation)
1964 - Yoko Kanno,
Japanese composer
1969 - Gary Jules,
American singer and songwriter
1975 - Vivian Hsu,
Taiwanese singer, actress and model
1975 - Brann Dailor, American drummer
1976 - ,
ch Lind - American drummer (Jimmy Eat World)
1980 - Mikuni Shimokawa,
Japanese singer
1983 - Ana Rezende,
Brazilian film director and musician (CSS)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 30 of 30
1782 - Adrien Trudo Sale,
composer, dies at 59
1782 - Louis-Henry Paisible, composer, dies at 33
1796 - Stephen Storace,
composer, dies at 33
1797 - Philip Hayes,
composer, dies at 58
1811 - Frantisek Adam Mica,
composer, dies at 65
1845 - George Augustus Kollmann,
composer, dies at 56
1850 - Adalbert Gyrowetz,
composer, dies at 87
1866 - Louis Clapisson,
composer, dies at 57
1876 - Jozef Stefani,
composer, dies at 75
1884 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback,
composer, dies at 54
1893 - Karel Komzak,
composer, dies at 69
1900 - Charles-Louis Hanon,
French composer (b. 1819)
1905 - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan,
composer, dies at 49
1913 - John Thomas,
composer, dies at 87
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford,
Irish composer/author, dies at 71
1943 - Vicente Ripolles,
composer, dies at 75
1947 - Willem F J Pijper,
Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
1954 - Walter Braunfels,
composer, dies at 71
1961 - Edric Cundell,
composer, dies at 68
1969 - Theodor Schaefer,
composer, dies at 65
1976 - George Sklavos,
composer, dies at 87
1976 - Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25
1982 - Randy Rhoads,
heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), air crash at 25
1990 - Andrew Wood,
American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
1993 - Jeff Ward,
drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
1995 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless,
priest folk musician, dies at 83
1996 - Christopher John Magenis Headington,
musician, dies at 65
2007 - Luther Ingram,
American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2009 - Ion Dolănescu,
Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)
2011 - Kym Bonython,
Australian radio broadcaster, jazz musician, speedway promoter (b. 1920)
