Events in Music
Events 1 - 12 of 12
1807 - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
1856 - Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
1868 - Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan
1907 - 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1917 - 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
1919 - Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in NYC
1960 - Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny & Jones (GRB)
1963 - Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl"
1972 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
1981 - Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & C Dean (GRB)
1994 - Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
1998 - Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 43 of 43
1668 - Francesco Gasparini,
composer
1733 - Vincenzo Galeotti,
[Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer
1748 - William Shield,
composer
1751 - Jan Krtitel Kuchar,
composer
1756 - Thomas Linley,
composer
1774 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse,
composer
1805 - Theodore Labarre,
composer
1828 - Johann Gungl,
composer
1843 - William F Sudds,
composer
1845 - Alfonse Hasselmans,
composer
1850 - Daniel Brink Towner,
composer
1853 - Arthur W Foote,
Salem Mass, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E)
1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos,
Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz)
1895 - Fritz Usinger,
German writer (Eternal Struggle)
1899 - Patrick Hadley,
composer
1903 - Lowell Peters,
Cleveland Tn, vocalist (Southernaires)
1913 - Yulian Grigor'yevich Kreyn,
composer
1916 - Horace Ian Parrott,
composer
1931 - Anthony Headges,
composer
1933 - Norbert Linke,
composer
1938 - Paul Evans,
singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road)
1944 - Lucio Battisti,
Italian singer (d. 1998)
1946 - Michael Warren,
Indiana, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues)
1946 - Murray Head, singer
1947 - Eddie Hodges,
Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
1947 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
1948 - Eddy Grant,
Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
1948 - Jacques Kloes, singer (Dizzy Man's Band)
1948 - Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
1948 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1950 - Eugene Fodor,
Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
1952 - Alan Clark,
keyboardist (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
1956 - Teena Marie,
American singer
1957 - Mark E Smith,
English rock vocalist (Fall-Fall in a Hole)
1958 - Andy Gibb,
Manchester England, singer/TV host (Solid Gold)
1960 - David Tibet,
English musician (Current 93)
1961 - Dan Stuart,
US singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid,
Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1969 - MC Solaar,
French rapper
1970 - John Frusciante,
American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff,
American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1972 - Luca Turilli,
Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1978 - Papoose,
American rapper
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 24 of 24
1732 - Joseph-Francois Salomon,
composer, dies at 82
1778 - Thomas A Arne,
English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
1795 - Josef Reicha,
composer, dies at 42
1873 - Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor,
composer, dies at 34
1876 - Marie d'Agoult,
[pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt's children, dies at 70
1893 - Richard Samuel Hughes,
composer, dies at 37
1919 - Jozef Surzynski,
composer, dies at 67
1947 - Alfredo Casella,
Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63
1952 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov,
composer, dies at 63
1953 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev,
Ukrainian composer, dies at 61
1956 - Erich Itor Kahn,
composer, dies at 50
1962 - Otakar Jeremias,
composer, dies at 69
1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins,
country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41
1963 - Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30
1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1972 - Nils Bjorkander,
composer, dies at 78
1973 - Rupert Crosse,
actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at 45
1973 - Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. 1933)
1977 - Lockrem Johnson,
composer, dies at 52
1977 - Moses Pergament, composer, dies at 83
1979 - Vicente Ascone,
composer, dies at 81
1984 - Harry Salter,
orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85
1994 - Joe Daley,
jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75
1995 - Vivian Stanshall,
British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51
