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On this day: week of January 19, 2015

January 19

Births:
1676 – John Weldon, English organist and composer (d. 1736)
1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1875)
1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist (d. 1986) Studied with Alfred Cortot
1948 – Amanda Holden, English playwright and composer
1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor. Formerly with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (in that amazing concert hall) and now with the Berlin Philharmonic
Deaths:
1833 – Ferdinand Hérold, French composer (b. 1791)
1972 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
2013 – Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (b. 1926)
January 20
Births:
1586 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1741)
1761 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842)
1783 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
1876 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1967)
1891 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)
1894 – Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976) Also author of textbooks about composition, counterpoint, and orchestration
1926 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996) Gave the American premiere of Boulez’s second piano sonata
1951 – Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and composer; his Mahler is quite good. 
Deaths:
2014 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933) So sad, this one. 
2014 – Ubaldo Continiello, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1941)
January 21
1848 – Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1898 – Avery Claflin, American composer (d. 1979) Student of Satie, but went on to study banking…
1899 – Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 1977)
1909 – Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (d. 2004)
1941 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor and conductor
Deaths:
1638 – Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. 1570)
1851 – Albert Lortzing, German composer and actor (b. 1801)
1931 – Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
1948 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
2005 – Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer, and pastor (b. 1921)
January 22
Births:
1781 – François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (d. 1849)
1886 – John J. Becker, American composer (d. 1961)
1903 – Robin Milford, English composer (d. 1959)
1916 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer (d. 2013)
Deaths:
1599 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1547)
2005 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
January 23
Births:
1900 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988)
1953 – John Luther Adams, American composer
Deaths:
1837 – John Field, Irish pianist and composer (b. 1782) Ever heard of the nocturne?
1921 – Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
1981 – Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
January 24
Births:
1752 – Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1832) (who is listed on Wikipedia as having been born on the 23rd AND 24th, but his article says the 24th)
1911 – Muir Mathieson, Scottish conductor and composer (d. 1975)
1913 – Norman Dello Joio, American composer (d. 2008)
1953 – Yuri Bashmet, Russian violinist, viola player, and conductor
Deaths:
1473 – Conrad Paumann, German organist and composer (b. 1410)
1666 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
1883 – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
1960 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
January 25
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria‘s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding recessional.
1909 – Richard Strauss‘s opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
Births:
1750 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (d. 1813)
1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1894)
1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (d. 1954)
1913 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1994)
Deaths:
2008 – Evelyn Barbirolli, English oboe player (b. 1911)
2009 – Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist (b. 1938)
2012 – Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)

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