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)

Fugue for Thought

an amateur does classical music

On this day: week of January 19, 2015

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