Events in Music
Events 1 - 4 of 4
1881 - Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1896 - Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan
1933 - Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1984 - Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (GRB)
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 44 of 44
1599 - Thomas Selle,
composer
1749 - Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen,
composer
1750 - Johannes Matthias Sperger,
composer
1795 - Leopold Jansa,
composer
1811 - Camille Marie Stamaty,
composer
1811 - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer
1826 - Leon Minkus,
composer
1834 - Julius Reubke,
composer
1837 - Joseph Wieniawski,
composer
1844 - Eugene Gigout,
composer
1864 - Hjalmar Borgstrom,
composer
1878 - Franz Schrecker,
composer
1878 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934)
1884 - Glauco Velasquez,
composer
1887 - Anthony van Hoboken,
Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
1891 - Catherine Murphy Urner,
composer
1895 - Dane Rudhyar,
composer
1899 - Dora Gerson,
German actress and singer (d. 1943)
1900 - Jose Antonio Calcano,
composer
1901 - Edmund Rubbra,
composer [or May 23]
1905 - Lale Andersen,
German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
1906 - George Posford,
composer
1910 - Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson,
German singer/actress (Der Pott)
1914 - Robert Gross,
composer
1917 - Johnny Guarnieri,
NYC, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show)
1920 - Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan,
composer
1920 - Geoffrey Bush, composer
1926 - Martha Wright,
Seattle, singer (Let's Dance, Martha Wright Show)
1927 - Osvaldo Lacerda,
composer
1929 - Gerrit den Braber,
Dutch composer/producer
1934 - Fernand Gignac,
Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
1937 - Heinz Martin Lonquich,
composer
1939 - Boris Ivanovich Tischenko,
composer
1939 - Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer
1940 - Luis Gasca,
rocker
1944 - Michael Nyman,
composer (Mesmer, Carrington)
1945 - Franco Battiato,
Italian singer, songwriter and filmmaker
1948 - David Olney,
American musician
1949 - Ric Ocasek,
Balt, rock vocalist (Cars-Double Life, Bye Bye Love)
1953 - Chaka Khan,
[Stevens], Great Lakes Il, rocker (Rufus-I am Every Woman)
1958 - El Duce,
American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997)
1959 - Epic Soundtracks,
English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)
1966 - Marti Pellow,
rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
1995 - Jan Lisiecki,
Canadian Pianist
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 25 of 25
1658 - Valentin Dretzel,
composer, dies at 79
1669 - Philipp Buchner,
composer, dies at 54
1748 - Johann Gottfried Walther,
German composer/musicologist, dies at 63
1756 - Georg Gottfried Wagner,
composer, dies at 57
1783 - Gaspard Fritz,
composer, dies at 67
1806 - George Frederic Pinto,
composer, dies at 20
1809 - Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes,
composer, dies at 60
1816 - Ignaz Vitzthumb,
composer, dies at 95
1818 - Nicolas Isouard,
composer, dies at 42
1821 - Bernhard Anselm Weber,
pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 56
1832 - Vaclav Vilem Wurfel,
composer, dies at 41
1869 - Charles Lucas,
composer, dies at 60
1880 - Gustav Adolf Mankell,
composer, dies at 67
1881 - Nikolay Rubinstein,
composer, dies at 45
1918 - Cesar Cortinas,
composer, dies at 27
1943 - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger,
composer, dies at 47
1946 - Alexandru Zirra,
composer, dies at 62
1971 - Armin Loos,
composer, dies at 67
1978 - Bill Kenny,
American singer, dies at 63
1987 - Dean Paul Martin,
musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
1995 - Alan Barton,
singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash
1995 - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter, dies at 61
1995 - Ripley L. Ingram, singer, dies at 65
2002 - Eileen Farrell,
American soprano (b. 1920)
2006 - Cindy Walker,
American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
