Births and Deaths
- Died 1941: Paul Ambrose, composer/organist/teacher, born 10-11-1868
- Born 1914: Felix Aphrahamian, music critic/organ, died 01-15-2005
- Born 1826: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Bechstein, piano maker, died 03-06-1900
- Born 1917: Hayward Cirker, publisher [Dover Publications], died 03-08-2000
- Died 2000: Oskar Czerwenka, bass singer, born 07-05-1924 [husband of soprano Elisabeth Rethberg]
- Born 1941: Edo De Waart, conductor [once married to soprano Ashley Putnam]
- Born 1923: Karl Engel, pianist/accompanist
- Died 1951: John Erskine, pianist/educator, born 10-05-1879
- Born 1922: Armando Ghitalla, trumpeter/cornetist [Boston Symphony]
- Born 1804: Mikhail Glinka, composer, died 02-15-1857
- Born 1909: Szymon Goldberg, violinist/conductor, died 07-19-1993
- Born 1943: Richard Goode, pianist
- Born 1888: Gunnar Graarud, heldentenor, died-??
- Born 1879: Mark Hambourg, pianist/teacher, died 08-26-1960 [possible birth 06-12-1879]
- Born 1930: Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, pianist
- Born 1899: Werner Janssen, conductor, died 09-19-1990
- Born 1910: Roderick Jones, baritone, died 09-16-1992
- Died 2001: Nikolai Korndorf, composer, born 01-23-1947
- Born 1906: Walter Legge, record producer [EMI], died 03-22-1979 [husband of soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf]
- Died 1909: Giuseppe Martucci, pianist/composer, born 01-06-1856
- Born 1881: Margarete Matzenauer, contralto/mezzo-soprano, died 05-19-1963
- Born 1653: Georg Muffat, composer/organist, died 02-23-1704
- Died 1907: Richard Mühlfeld, clarinetist, born 02-28-1856 [Brahms wrote music for him]
- Born 1946: Carol Neblett, soprano
- Born 1889: Sigrid Onegin, contralto, died 06-16-1943
- Born 1757: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, piano maker/composer/pianist, died 11-14-1831
- Died 1946: Leo Slezak, tenor, died 08-18-1873 [father of actor Walter Slezak]
- Died 2000: Lepo Sumera, composer/recording engineer, born 05-08-1950
- Born 1945: Frederica Von Stade, mezzo-soprano
- Born 1929: Yehudi Wyner, composer/pianist
"The love of beauty is taste; the
creation of beauty is art."
—Emerson
In 1824 in London England, Franz Liszt gave his first concert at the age of thirteen.
Note: Interestingly, TWO famous European piano makers, Pleyel and Bechstein, were both born on June 1, many years apart, however.
