May 9: Names and Notes in Music
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:16 am
MAY 9
Births and Deaths
"In Frederic Chopin's compositions boldness is always justified; richness, often exuberance, never interferes with clearness; singularity never degenerates into the uncouth and fantastic; the sulpturing is never disordered; the luxury of ornament never unloads the chaste eloquence of the principal lines."
—Franz Liszt, pianist/composr
What happened on this day in music histiry?
In 1965, the historic return of pianist Vladimir Horowitz occurred at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Births and Deaths
- Died 1770: Charles Avison, organist/composer, born 02-16-1709
- Born 1950: Michel Beroff, pianist
- Died 1999: Harry Blech, violinist/conductor, born 03-02-1910
- Died 1973: Owen Brannigan, bass singer, born 03-10-1908
- Died 1707: Dietrich Buxtehude, composer/organist, born 1637
- Born 1976: Andrea Cesare Coronella, tenor
- Born 1927: Mary Curtis-Verna, soprano
- Died 1949: Amleto Galli, bass singer, born 09-10-1886
- Born 1914: Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor, died 06-13-2005
- Born 1961: Marc-André Hamelin, pianist
- Born 1814: Adolf von Henselt, composer/pianist, died 10-10-1889
- Died 1791: Francis Hopkinson, composer, born 09-21-1737
- Died 1977: Walter Kraft, organist/composer, born 06-09-1905 [perished in a hotel fire, Amsterdam]
- Born 1934: Soo Bee lee, soprano, died 08-31-2005
- Died 1906: Hellen Lemmens-Sherrington, soprano, born 10-04-1834 [wife of Nicholas Jacues]
- Died 1990: Luigi Nono, composer, born 01-29-1924
- Born 1955: Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
- Born 1740: Giovanni Paisiello, composer, died 06-05-1816
- Born 1525: Giovanni Palestrino, composer, died 02-02-1594
- Died 1957: Taurino Parvis, baritone, born 09-15-1879
- Died 1957: Ezio Pinza, bass singer, born 05-18-1892
- Born 1855: Julius Röntgen, composer, died 09-13-1932
- Born 1882: Josef Rosenblatt, cantor, died 06-19-1933
- Born 1904: Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, composer, died 12-09-1985
- Died 1967: Philppa Duke Schyler, pianist/composer, born-?? [helicopter crash]
- Died 1956: Léon Vallas, musicologist, born 05-17-1879
- Died 1745: Thomas Antonio Vitali, composer, born 03-07-1663
- Died 1979: Ben Weber [William Jennings Bryan], composer, born 07-23-1916
- Died 2004: Percy M. Young, critic/author, born 05-17-1912 [Elgar biographer]
"In Frederic Chopin's compositions boldness is always justified; richness, often exuberance, never interferes with clearness; singularity never degenerates into the uncouth and fantastic; the sulpturing is never disordered; the luxury of ornament never unloads the chaste eloquence of the principal lines."
—Franz Liszt, pianist/composr
What happened on this day in music histiry?
In 1965, the historic return of pianist Vladimir Horowitz occurred at New York's Carnegie Hall.