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February 15 in Music History

1571 Birth of composer Michael Praetorius. 1621 Death of Praetorius in Wolfenbuttel, his birthday.

1761 Birth of American composer Jacob Kimball.

1686 FP of Lully's last opera Armide at the Paris Opera.

1732 FP of Handel's opera, Sosarmes King of Media in London.

1760 Birth of French composer Jean-Francois Lesueur in Drucat-Plessiel.

1789 Birth of German composer Friedrich Ernst Fesca in Magdeburg.

1797 Birth of Heinrich Engelhard Steinway in Germany. 1805 Birth of French composer Louise Angelique Bertin in Roche.

1845 FP of G. Verdi's opera Giovanna D'Arco at the Teatro all Scala in Milan.

1847 Birth of Austrian composer Robert Fuchs in Frauenthal, Styria. 1857 Death of Russian composer Mikhail Glinka in Berlin.

1858 Birth of Polish American soprano Marcella Sembrich.

1860 Birth of bass Jacques Isnardon.

1867 FP of J. Strauss' Ander schönen Donau "Blue Danube Waltz".

1868 FP of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 Winter Dreams in Moscow.

1874 FP of G. Bizet's Patrie Overture, by the Concerts Pasedeoup in Paris.

1879 Birth of baritone Otakar Chmel.

1880 Birth of bass Giulio Cirino.

1884 FP of Tchaikovsky's opera Mazeppa at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

1885 Death of German conductor, composer Leopold Damrosch in NYC.

1886 Birth of American composer Julia Lee NiebergalI in Indianapolis, IN.

1887 Fist concert of Berlin Philartmonic. Wagner Das Rheingold. 1890 Birth of mezzo-soprano Eva Liebenberg.

1891 Birth of tenor Dino Borgioli.

1896 Birth of soprano Hina Spani.

1899 Birth of French composer Georges Auric in Lodève.

1903 Death of tenor Edmond-Alphonse Vergnet.

1903 Death of baritone Joseph Beck.

1904 Birth of soprano Larisa Alexandrovskaya.

1905 Birth of American song composer Harold Arlen aka Hyman Arluck. 1907 Birth of French composer and organist Jean Langlais in La Fontenelle. 1913 Birth of Australian composer Miriam Hyde.

1916 Death of Russian composer Nikolay Nikolayevitch Lodyzhensky.

1916 Death of baritone Francesco Pandolfini.

1918 Death of Spanish composer Pedro Miguel Marques.

1919 FP of Charles Martin Loeffler's Music for Four Stringed Instruments at Aeolina Hall by the Flonzaley Quartet in NYC.

1925 FP of Julian Carrillo's Preludio a Cristobal Colon in Mexico.

1926 Birth of baritone Raymond Wolansky.

1927 Death of tenor Trajan Grosavescu.

1928 Birth of English contralto Norris Procter.

1929 Birth of baritone Sumito Tachikawa.

1934 Birth of American composer Arthur Welwood.

1939 FP of Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 19 for winds, in Moscow.

1940 Founding of the American Music Center in NYC. 1945 FP of Paul Creston's Symphony No. 2. New York Philharmonic Arthur Rodzinski conducting.

1946 Birth of bass-baritone James Johnson.

1947 Birth of tenor Donald Stephenson.

1947 FP of E. W. Korngold's Violin Concerto. St. Louis Symphony Jascha Heifetz was soloist.

1947 Birth of American composer John Adams Worcester, MA. 1948 Birth of English composer Colin Bayless in Mansfield, Notts.

1948 Birth of Scottish composer Edward McGuire in Glasgow. 1949 Birth of American composer Christopher Rouse in Baltimore, MD. 1951 Birth of English soprano Kathryn Harries in Hampton Court.

1954 Death of tenor Erik Wirl.

1958 FP of David Diamond's orchestral suite The World of Paul Klee in Portland, OR.

1962 Birth of American composer Jonathan Elliot in Philadelphia PA.

1965 Death of mezzo-soprano Nell Tangeman.

1965 FP of B.A. Zimmermann's opera Die Soldaten at the Städtische Opera in Cologne.

1967 Birth of Dutch composer Hans Eijsackers in The Hague.

1974 Death of Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg in Stockholm, age 86.

1981 Death of bass Dreszo Ernster.

1985 Death of mezzo-soprano Carol Brice.

1986 Death of tenor Galiano Masini.

1989 Death of baritone Robert Kerns.

1992 Death of American composer William Schuman, at age 81 in NYC.

2002 FP of Daron Hagen's Concerto For The Left Hand. Gary Graffman, pianist and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Joanne Falletta conducting.

2003 FP of Robert Martin's Water of the Flowery Mill for Guitar, Flute, String Trio, Percussion, at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater.

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