January 16: Names in Music

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January 16: Names in Music

Post by Lance » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:55 pm

JANUARY 16

Births and Deaths
  • Born 1872: Henri Busser, conductor, died 12-30-1973
  • Died 1996: Marcia (Gluck) Davenport, author [Mozart biographer], born-?? [daughter of Alma Gluck and Efrem Zimbalist, Sr.]
  • Died 1891: Léo Delibes, composer, born 02-21-1836
  • Died 1969: Vernon Duke [Vladimir Dukelsky], composer, born 10-10-1893
  • Born 1943: Brian Ferneyhough, composer
  • Born 1905: Ernesto Halffter, composer, died 07-05-1989
  • Born 1934: Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano [once wife of conductor Henry Lewis]
  • Died 1975: Thor Johnson, conductor, born 06-10-1913
  • Died 2000: Philip Jones, trumpeter/conductor, born 03-12-1928
  • Born 1928: Pilar Lorengar, soprano, died 06-20-1996 [breast cancer]
  • Born 1946: Katia Ricciarelli, soprano
  • Died 2001: John Rosselli, musicologist/author, born 06-08-1927
  • Born 1928: Ezra Sims, composer
  • Died 1957: Artur Toscanini, conductor, born 03-25-1867
  • Born 1914: Roger Wagner, choral director, died 09-17-1992
  • Born 1934: Richard Frank Wernick, composer
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