Births and Deaths
- Born 1888: Anatol Alexandrov, composer, died 04-16-1982
- Born 1898: Margarete Bäumer, soprano, died 12-??-1969
- Born 1937: Franco Bonisolli, tenor, died 10-29-2003
- Died 2001: Delme Bryn-Jones, baritone, born 03-28-1935
- Died 1926: Juan Cassadó, organist/composer, born 09-30-1867
- Died 1917: Eduoard de Reszke, bass singer, born 12-22-1853 [brother of tenor Jean de Reszke]
- Died 1942: Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, born 11-22-1902
- Died 1985: Jules Gentil, pianist, born 02-10-1898
- Born 1459: Paul Hofhamier, composer/organist, died 1537
- Died 1934: Gustav Holst, composer, born 09-21-1874 [father of Imogen Holst]
- Died 1916: Alma Hulting, soprano, born 09-15-1867
- Died 1991: Gunnar Johansen, pianist/organist/teacher, born 01-21-1906
- Died 2005: Ruth [Meckler] Laredo, pianist, born 11-20-1937 [once wife of violinist/conductor Jaime Laredo]
- Born 1898: Mischa Levitzki, pianist/composer, died 01-02-1941
- Died 1969: Douglas Moore, composer, born 08-10-1893 [Ballad of Baby Doe opera]
- Died 1985: Julian Olevsky, violinist, born 05-07-1926
- Died 1981: Rosa Ponselle [Ponzillo], soprano, born 01-22-1897 [sister of contralto Carmella Ponselle]
- Born 1917: Heinz Rehfuss, bass-baritone
- Died 1995: Adelaide Saraceni, soprano, born 11-26-1895
- Born 1929: Beverly ("Bubbles") Sills [Belle Miriam Silverman], soprano
- Born 1849: Thomas (Greene) Wiggins, pianist/composer, died 06-13-1908 ["Blind Tom"]
- Died 1964: Vassily A. Zolotarev, composer, born 03-07-1873
"The masterworks of the past should be the standard of the works of the present."
—Robert Franz, composer (1815-1892)
[Do you think this pronouncement is holding true? —Ed.]
What happened on this day in music history?
In 1878, the first performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore, was premiered at the Opéra Comique Theater in London, England.
