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On May 2, 1885, in Vienna, Anton Bruckner conducted the first performance of his Te Deum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJolJqY7Q5E&feature=youtu.be
Bruckner Te Deum Karajan Wiener Philarmoniker
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Alessandro Scarlatti was born in Palermo on May 2, 1660 (Palermo, May 2, 1660 – Naples, October 24, 1725).
Alessandro Scarlatti La Giuditta, Oratorio 1693
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Evgenij Svetlanov passed away in Moscow on May 3, 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzfzOhCUWjE&feature=youtu.be
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (Svetlanov)
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On May 3, 1929, in Paris, the first performance of Francis Poulenc's Concert champêtre took place.
Francis Poulenc, Concert champêtre, Jean-Patrice Brosse, Pleyel harpsichord 1930
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On August 18, 1942, Erwin Schulhoff died (Prague, June 8, 1894 – Weißenburg in Bayern, August 18, 1942), a highly talented Czechoslovak composer and pianist with a striking personality. Born to German parents of Jewish origin, he studied at the Prague Conservatory starting at age 10, thanks to the recommendation of Antonín Dvořák, and later studied in Vienna, Leipzig, and Cologne.
Due to his origins, after the advent of Nazism, he worked mainly in Czechoslovakia. In 1939, he decided to become a communist and applied for Soviet citizenship. In 1941, Czechoslovakia was invaded by Nazi troops, and Schulhoff applied to move to the Soviet Union, taking advantage of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which protected him as a Soviet citizen; however, Germany subsequently invaded Russia as well, and Schulhoff, still awaiting his expatriation documents, was arrested and interned in the Weißenburg concentration camp in Bavaria, where he died of tuberculosis in August of the following year.
There is a very comprehensive page on English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schulhoff
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Happy birthday to George Enescu!
Romanian violinist, pianist, composer and conductor. (Liveni, 19 August 1881 – Paris, 4 May 1955)
Paolo Isotta recently wrote a beautiful article in Corriere della Sera on the occasion of the sixty years since Enescu's passing, the master of variation who split notes into four
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I am a lover of categorization; for several years I have been keeping track of the anniversaries of all the musicians I have met during my journey in a small diary. Now I am even dedicating myself to a draft that aims for some degree of completeness, thanks to the very useful information I gather from the web or musicological texts, of an actual diary of musicians' anniversaries (but not only musicians, also luthiers, organ builders, etc.), but it is progressing a bit slowly given the sheer volume of names I have to enter. In a few months, I have only compiled the days from January 1st to the 24th, and for each day there are about thirty names on average. So many! Below, instead, I report only the anniversaries that I have compiled completely at random over the years, so there are fewer names...
ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 10
- in 1813, the composer and senator Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole
- in 1964, the cellist and soprano Verónica Cangemi was born in Mendoza
- in 2010, the soprano Joan Sutherland died in Les Avants
- in 1971, the pianist Evgenij Igorevič Kisin was born in Moscow
- in 1938, the composer Gloria Coates was born in Wausau
- in 1997, the pianist, organist, composer, harpsichordist and conductor George Malcolm died in London
- in 1946, the bass and baritone Willard White was born in Kingston
- in 1928, the soprano Leyla Gencer was born in Istanbul
- in 1993, the pianist Catherine Collard died in Paris
- in 1979, the conductor Paul Paray died in Monte Carlo
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 11
- in 1896 the composer Anton Bruckner dies in Vienna
- in 1821 the conductor Angelo Mariani is born in Ravenna
- in 1888 the conductor, pianist and composer Piero Coppola is born in Milan
- in 2014 the soprano Anita Cerquetti dies in Perugia
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Composed between 1736 and 1737, on October 11, 1740, the motet in B-flat major "O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht (O Jesus Christ, light of my life), BWV 118" by J. S. Bach, for choir and orchestra, based on a text by Martin Behm, was performed for the first time on the occasion of the funeral of Count Joachim Friedrich von Flemming
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 12
- in 1872, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in Down Ampney
- in 1975, the mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland was born in Lørenskog
- in 1935, the tenor Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena
- in 1855, the conductor Arthur Nikisch was born in Lébény Szentmiklós
- in 1713, the composer and organist Johann Ludwig Krebs was born in Buttelstedt
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on October 10th, the composer Luis de Pablo passed away; he was 91 years old
https://www.giornaledellamusica.it/news/la-scomparsa-di-luis-de-pablo
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 13
- in 1974, conductor and violinist Josef Krips dies in Geneva
- in 1871, composer, art collector, and patron Roffredo Caetani is born in Rome
- in 1971, composer Francesco Antonioni is born in Teramo
- in 1967, conductor Hannu Lintu is born in Rauma
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 14
- in 1990, the composer, pianist and conductor Leonard Bernstein dies in New York
- in 1952, the composer Kaija Saariaho is born in Helsinki
- in 1669, the composer, tenor, organist and maestro di cappella Antonio Cesti dies in Florence
- in 1935, the composer La Monte Young is born in Bern
- in 1985, the pianist Ėmil' Grigor'evič Gilel's dies in Moscow
- in 1957, the composer Natanael Berg dies in Stockholm
- in 1568, the composer Jacques Arcadelt dies in Paris
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 15
- in 1988, composer and pianist Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji dies in Dorchester
- in 1926, organist, harpsichordist, and conductor Karl Richter is born in Plauen
- in 1775, composer, clarinetist, and translator Bernhard Henrik Crusell is born in Uusikaupunki
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 16
- in 1903, the composer Mario Pilati was born in Naples
- in 1982, the tenor Mario Del Monaco died in Mestre
- in 1765, the composer and horn player Frédéric Duvernoy was born in Montbéliard
- in 1679, the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was born in Louňovice
- in 1968, the pianist, composer and conductor Francesco Libetta was born in Galatone
- in 1960, the composer and horn player Kerry Turner was born
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 17
- in 1849 the composer and pianist Fryderyk Chopin dies in Paris
- in 1825 the composer Peter Winter dies in Munich
- in 1729 the composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny is born in Fauquembergue
- in 1688 the Jesuit, missionary and composer Domenico Zipoli is born in Prato
- in 1923 the baritone Giulio Fioravanti is born in Ascoli Piceno
- in 1996 the composer Berthold Goldschmidt dies in London
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 18
- in 1909, conductor Otto Ackermann was born in Bucharest
- in 1974, conductor and pianist Philippe Jordan was born in Zurich
- in 1706, composer and organist Baldassare Galuppi was born in Burano
- in 1891, violinist Marcel Darrieux was born in Bordeaux
- in 1817, composer Étienne Nicolas Méhul died in Paris
- in 1893, composer Charles Gounod died in Saint-Cloud
- in 1879, conductor, composer and violinist Grzegorz Fitelberg was born in Daugavpils
- in 1878, guitarist and composer Miguel Llobet was born in Barcelona
- in 1950, music critic, musicologist and writer Paolo Isotta was born in Naples
- in 1840, tenor Roberto Stagno was born in Palermo
- in 1944, composer, conductor and pianist Viktor Ullmann died in the Auschwitz concentration camp
- in 1935, organist and composer Richard Popplewell was born in Halifax
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 19
- in 1987 the cellist Jacqueline du Pré dies in London
- in 1916 the pianist Emil' Grigor'evich Gilel's is born in Odessa
- in 1602 the composer and violinist Dario Castello is baptized
- in 1828 the pianist and composer Adolfo Fumagalli is born in Inzago
- in 1960 the composer Günter Raphael dies in Herford
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soprano Edita Gruberova died yesterday, October 18, 2021, she was 74 years old
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ANNIVERSARIES OCTOBER 20
- in 1874, composer Charles Ives was born in Danbury
- in 1958, pianist Ivo Pogorelić was born in Belgrade
- in 1676, composer and organist Christopher Gibbons died in London
- in 1942, conductor and composer Frederick August Stock died in Chicago
- in 1923, conductor and writer Robert Kraft was born in Kingston
- in 1963, violinist and conductor John Storgårds was born in Helsinki
