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On this day: week of January 12, 2015

January 12

Births:
1711 – Gaetano Latilla, Italian composer (d. 1788)
1715 – Jacques Duphly, French organist and composer (d. 1789)
1837 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist and composer (d. 1879)
1876 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1916 – William Pleeth, English cellist and educator (d. 1999)
1917 – Walter Hendl, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)
1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
1944 – Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist
1949 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
Deaths:
1674 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
1735 – John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
1765 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (b. 1696)
1934 – Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1887)
2012 – Rosalind Runcie, English pianist (b. 1932)
January 13
1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
Births:
1683 – Christoph Graupner, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1760)
1866 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
1904 – Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1992)
1923 – Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
1954 – Richard Blackford, English composer
Deaths:
1838 – Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
1864 – Stephen Foster, American composer and songwriter (b. 1826)
1971 – Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
2012 – Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Welsh composer and academic (b. 1918)
January 14
Births:
1683 – Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker (d. 1753)
1800 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian composer, botanist, and publisher (d. 1877)
1927 – Zuzana Růžičková, Czech harpsichord player
1943 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor, currently at the Royal Concertgebouw, and he will be succeeded after the 2015 season by Daniele Gatti. He will continue his post at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra until 2018. 
1970 – Fazıl Say, Turkish pianist and composer
Deaths:
1676 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
1786 – Michael Arne, English organist and composer (b. 1741)
1888 – Stephen Heller, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1813)
1949 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
1978 – Robert Heger, German conductor and composer (b. 1886)
1995 – Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor (b. 1926) Maybe not so many people know this guy, but his recording of the Sibelius symphonies is quite wonderful. 
2014 – Flavio Testi, Italian composer and musicologist (b. 1923)
January 15
Births:
1878 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
1913 – Miriam Hyde, Australian pianist and composer (d. 2005)
1960 – Aaron Jay Kernis, American composer
1964 – Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer
Deaths:
1775 – Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1700)
1864 – Isaac Nathan, English-Australian composer and journalist (b. 1792)
1885 – Leopold Damrosch, German-American conductor (b. 1832)
1926 – Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883) Student of Giovanni Sgambati
2013 – Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor, and educator (b. 1939)
January 16
1964 – Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
Births:
1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
1872 – Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1973) 101 years old!
1893 – Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
1905 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, English-American composer, still alive, and quite important, but this is one nut I haven’t been able to crack. 
1985 – Gintaras Januševičius, Lithuanian pianist
Deaths:
1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834)
1891 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
1957 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867). Yas. 
2012 – Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928)
January 17
1659 – Antonio Veracini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
1712 – John Stanley, English organist and composer (d. 1786)
1728 – Johann Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)
1734 – François-Joseph Gossec, French composer (d. 1829)
1828 – Ede Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898)
1850 – Alexander Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)
1857 – Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
1942 – Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
1948 – Anne Queffélec, French pianist
1980 – Gareth McLearnon, Irish flute player
Deaths:
1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)
1826 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
1869 – Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
1970 – Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player (b. 1890)
1984 – Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903)
2000 – Philip Jones, English trumpet player (b. 1928)
2003 – Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936)
January 18
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridgeand Jack Teagarden. I usually avoid jazz stuff on here, for hopefully obvious reasons, but that’s quite a lineup…
Births:
1543 – Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, Italian composer (d. 1588)
1751 – Ferdinand Kauer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1831)
1841 – Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (d. 1894)
Deaths:
2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)

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