February 7: Names in Music

[Lance]

FEBRUARY 7

Births and Deaths

• Died 1652: Gregorio Allegri, priest/composer, born 1582 ["Miserere"]
• Born 1930: David Bar-Illan, pianist/writer, died 11-05-2003
• Died 1779: William Boyce, composer, born 09-??-1711
• Born 1933: Stuart Burrows, tenor
• Born 1915: Carlo Felice Cillario, conductor
• Born 1925: Marius Constant, composer/conductor, died 05-20-2004
• Born 1981: Hugh Daigle, composer
• Born 1913: Oscar Danon, conductor, died-??
• Died 1994: Norman Del Mar, conductor, born 07-31-1919
• Born 1870: Cornelis Dopper, composer, died 09-18-1939
• Died 1977: Sidney Foster, pianist/teacher, born 05-23-1917
• Born 1878: Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist/conductor, died 09-14-1936 [husband of Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter. Buried in Elmira, NY]
• Born 1923: (Sir) George (Earl of) Harewood, music critic/author/writer
• Born 1909: Edmond de Luca, composer, died 03-06-2004 ["Conquerors of the Ages"]
• Died 1984: Witold Lutoslawski, composer, born 01-25-1913
• Born 1920: Germaine Mournier, pianist
• Born 1889: Claudia Muzio, soprano, died 05-24-1936
• Born 1859: Emma Nevada [Wixom], soprano, died 06-20-1940
• Born 1897: (William) Quincy Porter, composer, died 11-12-1966
• Born 1844: Josef Rebicek, violinist/composer/conductor, died 03-24-1904
• Born 1910: Elisabeth Reichelt, soprano, died 05-01-2001
• Died 1969: Margaret Ritchie, soprano, born 06-07-1903
• Died 1763: Christoph Schaffrath, composer, born 1709
• Died 1763: Daniel (Daniil) Shafran, cellist, born 01-13-1923
• Died 1862: Franz Skroup [Skraup], composer/conductor, born 06-03-1801
• Born 1892: Jan Smeterlin, pianist/teacher, died 01-18-1967
• Died 1871: Henry E. Steinway [Steinweg], piano maker/founder Steinway & Sons, born 02-15-1797
• Born 1871: Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer/pianist, died 11-20-1927
• Died 1918: Alexander Taneyev, composer, born 01-17-1850
• Died 1956: Isabelle Vengerova, pianist/teacher, born 03-01-1877 [aunt of Nicholas Slonimsky; teacher of pianist Leonard Pennario and many others]
• Born 1912: Marianne Wallenberg, violinist/teacher [wife of conductor/cellist Fritz Wallenberg]
• Died 1983: Alfred Wallenstein, conductor/cellist, born 10-07-1898
• Born 1944: Antoni Wit, conductor
• Born 1986: Jordan Charles Witherspoon, composer

[Donald Isler]

Actually I believe Isabelle Vengerova was Nicholas Slonimsky's aunt. He was the nephew.

[rasputin]

Alexander Taneyev, a distant relative of Sergey, is almost unknown,but
his 3 SQ (on Olympia),are IMO splendid russian works.

[CharmNewton]

FEBRUARY 7

Births and Deaths

• Died 1983: Alfred Wallenstein, conductor, born 10-07-1898

Also a cellist, former principal of the Chicago Symphony (1920s) and later N.Y. Philharmonic-Symphony. He made a rare recording of Strauss' Don Quixote with Beecham and the N.Y. Philharmonic in 1932 for RCA/Columbia (U.K.).

The notes for the LP transfer state that this recording was made in both 78 RPM and RCA's early long playing format (i.e. the lang playing sides were not dubbed from the 78s), although the latter does not seem to have been issued.

John