Events in Music
Events 1 - 5 of 5
1831 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1967 - 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
1976 - Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45
1616 - Malachias Siebenhaar,
composer
1710 - Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli,
composer
1763 - Jean Xavier Lefevre,
composer
1779 - Philipp Roth,
composer
1785 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski,
composer
1793 - Bernhard Joseph Klein,
composer
1835 - Ludwik Grossman,
composer
1843 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos,
composer
1844 - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov,
composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18)
1852 - Joseph Bayer,
composer
1870 - Oscar Straus,
Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum)
1887 - Henri Gagnon,
composer
1893 - [Walter] Furry Lewis,
father of the blues
1898 - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent,
Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion)
1909 - Dave Clark,
music promoter/songwriter
1911 - Roland Jacobi Leich,
composer
1914 - Kirill P Kondrashin,
Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981)
1921 - Julius Rudel,
Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957)
1923 - Erhard Karkoschka,
composer
1924 - Sarah Caldwell,
Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
1925 - Wes Montgomery,
American musician (d. 1968)
1926 - Jon Nordal,
composer
1926 - Miroslav Klega, composer
1928 - Ronald Stevenson,
composer
1930 - Lorin Maazel,
Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
1931 - Carmen Delavallade,
US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
1933 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins,
folk musician/composer
1937 - Paul Mefano,
composer
1938 - Lovelace Watkins,
singer
1939 - Jerry Naylor,
Stephenville Tx, rock vocalist (Crickets)
1944 - David Gilmore,
Cambridge England, guitarist (Pink Floyd)
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne NZ, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni)
1944 - Mary Wilson, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)
1945 - Hugh Grundy,
Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-She's Not There)
1946 - David Jon Gilmour,
rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)
1946 - Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1947 - Kiki Dee,
Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
1949 - Donald York,
rocker (Sha Na Na)
1963 - Suzanne Crough,
rocker (Partridge Family)
1964 - Reniet Vrieze,
rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men)
1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
1967 - Julio Bocca,
Argentinean Ballet Dancer
1968 - Michael Romeo,
American musician (Symphony X)
1975 - Aracely Arambula,
Mexican actress and singer
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga,
Japanese singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 28 of 28
1753 - Gerhardus Havingha,
composer, dies at 56
1842 - Constanze Mozart,
wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
1851 - Alexander Aliabiev,
composer, dies at 63
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer,
German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1867 - Wiktor Kazynski,
composer, dies at 54
1932 - John Philip Sousa,
US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
1936 - Josef Stransky,
composer, dies at 63
1936 - Rubin Goldmark, composer, dies at 63
1945 - Rudolph Karel,
composer, dies at 64
1947 - Ludwig Weber,
composer, dies at 55
1954 - Louis Zimmermann,
violinist, dies at 80
1961 - George Formby,
British singer/comedian, dies at 56
1962 - Rezso Kokai,
composer, dies at 56
1965 - Ruvim Pergament,
composer, dies at 58
1966 - Richard Hageman,
composer, dies at 83
1967 - Nelson Eddy,
US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
1968 - Isa Krejci,
composer, dies at 63
1973 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki,
Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 72
March King John Philip Sousa (1932)
1984 - Pierre Cochereau,
composer, dies at 59
1988 - Konstantin Iliev,
composer, dies at 63
1994 - Leighton Noble,
singer/Bandleader, dies at 81
1994 - Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at 77
1995 - Delroy George Wilson,
singer, dies at 46
1996 - Herbert "Herb" Hall,
clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88
2006 - King Floyd,
American musician (b. 1945)
2012 - Robert Sherman,
American songwriter, dies at 86
2013 - Alvin Lee,
English rocker, dies from complications from surgery at 68
