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1907 Birth of Czech soprano Jarmila NOVOTNA [photo] in Prague. d- 1994.
1907 Birth of Greek bass Nicola MOSCONA in Athens. d-Philadelphia, 17 SEP 1975. MET: Début: Dec. 19, 1937.
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1874 Birth of British composer, conductor and teacher Gustav Theodore HOLST in Cheltenham. d-London, 25 MAY 1934. Google Links | BUY Gustav Holst
1918 Birth in Zelazowa Wola, Poland of naturalized Mexican violinist Henryk SZERYNG (SHER' ing). d-Kassel, 3 MAR 1988. Google Links | BUY Henryk SZERYNG
Henryk Szeryng plays Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 17
1880 Birth of Italian composer and teacher Ildebrando PIZZETTI in Parma. d-Rome, 13 FEB 1968. Google Links | BUY Ildebrando PIZZETTI
1829 Birth of German music publisher Gustav SCHIRMER in Saxon. In 1866 he founded the music publishing house that bears his name in NYC. (Boston firm founded by E. C. Schirmer). d-Eisenach, 5 AUG 1893.
Arthur Leslie Benjamin (September 18, 1893, Sydney – April 10, 1960, London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938. Google Links | BUY Arthur Leslie Benjamin
1884 Birth of American composer, teacher and pianist, Charles Tomlinson GRIFFES in Elmira, NY. d-NYC, 8 APR 1920.
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1887 Birth of French music composition teacher Nadia BOULANGER in Paris. In USA from 1940. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, in 1945 she became professor there. Boulanger taught at the École normale de Musique, Paris, and in 1921, at the American Conservatory, Fontainebleau, as director in 1950. Teacher of American composers Walter Piston, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein and many others. Her sister Lily (1893–1918) was a distinguished composer. See Remembrance. d-Paris, 22 OCT 1979. Google Links | BUY Nadia BOULANGER
In 1707 J.S. Bach employed by Church of St. Blaise in Muhlhausen as organist. Google Bach | BUY Bach at Amazon.com
1737 Birth of Austrian composer Johann Michael HAYDN in Rohrau. Brother of Franz Joseph, friend of Mozart. Concertmaster to the Archbishop of Salzburg. d-Salzburg, 10 AUG 1806. Singspiel: "Rebekka als Braut" (Salzburg, 1766); "Der Traum" (1767); "Die Hochzeit auf der Alm" (Salzburg, 1768); "Die Wahrheit der Natur" (Salzburg, 1769); "Hermann, ein Beyspiel der Liebe zum Vaterlande" (1773); "Der Bassgeiger zu Wörgl" (c.1773-5); "Titus, der standhafte Christ" (Lost, 1774); "Abels Tod" (c.1778); "Der englische Patriot" (c.1779): "Andromeda e Perseo" (Salzburg, .1787); "Die Ährenleserin" (Salzburg, 1788).
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