On this day: Anton Bruckner’s 9th symphony received it’s premiere in Vienna. Had I thought about it ahead of time, I’d have planned to write about it, but I’m still familiarizing myself with his first and third. What scherzos…  Births:  Freidrich Nicolaus Bruhns (1637), composer Egidio Duni (1708), composer Samuel Parkman Tuckermann (1819), composer andorganist  Hans Brinsart von Schellendorf (1830), composer and pianist, student of Franz Liszt Alfonso Leng (1894) composer and dentist (!)  Hans Redlich (1903) composer, conductor, musicologist Rudolf Firkušny (1912), pianist Alexander Gibson (1926), conductor Jerome Lowenthal (1932), pianist Bent Lorentzen (1935), (not Brent), Danish composer Deaths:  Johann Tobias … Continue reading February 11