Births and Deaths
- Born 1833: Johannes Brahms, composer/pianist, died 04-03-1897
- Died 1836: Norbert Burgmüller, composer/pianist, born 02-08-1810
- Born 1951: Janina Fialkowska, pianist
- Born 1913: David Glazer, clarinetist
- Born 1965: Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
- Born 1919: Emanuel Hurwitz, violinist/conductor
- Born 1943: Stephen Kates, cellist, died 01-18-2003
- Born 1910: Edward Kilenyi, Jr., pianist/teacher, died 01-06-2000
- Born 1897: Marcel Maas, pianist, died 06-11-1950
- Died 1914: Eduard Mollenhauer, violinist, born 04-12-1827
- Died 2002: Arthur Oldham, choral director, born-?? [aged 78]
- Born 1926: Julian Olevsky, violinist, died 05-25-1985
- Died 1969: Feri Roth, violinist/teacher, born 07-18-1899 [founder Roth String Quartet]
- Died 1825: Antonio Salieri, composer, born 08-18-1750
- Died 2002: Monica Sinclair, mezzo-soprano, born 03-23-1925
- Born 1927: Elisabeth Soderstrom [Olow], soprano
- Born 1961: Robert Spano, conductor
- Born 1840: Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, composer/pianist, died 11-06-1893
- Died 1942: Felix Weingartner, conductor, born 06-02-1863 [husband of soprano Lucille Marcel]
- Born 1931: Ingvar Wixell, baritone
"In order to please everybody at once, it is necessary to compromise, and in questions of art, he who compromises is sure to disappear in a short time."
—Richard Wagner, composer
What happened on this day in music history?
In Vienna, Austria in 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven appeared on a public concert platform for the last time. The occasion was the premiere of his Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, the "Choral" symphony.
