Births and Deaths
- Died 1753: Jacques Aubert, violinist/composer, born 09-30-1689
- Born 1924: Gabriel Bacquier, bass singer
- Born 1900: Nikolai Berezovsky, violinist/composer, died 08-27-1953
- Born 1921: Dennis Brain, French hornist, died 09-01-1957 [auto accident]
- Born 1902: Fausto Cleva, conductor, died 08-06-1971
- Born 1944: Paul Crossley, pianist
- Died 2001: Ikuma Dan, composer, born-?? [aged 77]
- Died 1953: Eric De Lamarter, organist, born 02-18-1880
- Died 2002: John S. De Lancie, oboist, born 07-26-1921
- Died 1998: Nina Dorliak, soprano, born 07-07-1908 [wife of pianist Sviatoslav Richter]
- Died 1935: Paul Dukas, composer, born 10-01-1865
- Died 2005: Elsa Hilger Ederman, soprano?, born-?? [aged 101]
- Born 1912: Martha [Marta] Eggerth, soprano, [wife of tenor Jan Kiepura] [possible birth date 04-12-1912]
- Born 1901: Werner Egk, composer, died 07-10-1983
- Died 1994: Keith Falkner, baritone, born 03-01-1900
- Died 1942: Alfred Hollins, blind pianist, born 09-11-1865 [pupil of Hans von Bülow]
- Born 1890: Philip James, composer/conductor, died 11-01-1975
- Died 2000: Ellis Bonoff Kohs, composer, born 05-12-1916
- Died 1980: Maria Kurenko, soprano, born 08-16-1890
- Born 1904: Fritz Lehmann, conductor, died 03-30-1956
- Born 1901: Max Lorenz, heldentenor/tenor, died 01-15-1975
- Born 1923: Peter Mennin [Peter Mennini], composer, died 06-17-1983
- Born 1851: Alexander Michalowski, pianist/teacher, died 10-17-1938
- Born 1906: Zinka Milanov [Kunz], soprano, died 05-30-1989
- Born 1889: Marcel Moÿse, flutist/teacher, died 11-01-1984
- Born 1918: Birgit Nilsson [Niklasson], soprano, died 12-25-2005
- Born 1888: Elisabeth Ohms, soprano, died 10-16-1974
- Died 1969: Maria Olczewska, contralto, born 08-12-1892
- Died 1948: Olga Samaroff [Hickenlooper], pianist/teacher, born 08-08-1880 [once wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski]
- Born 1866: Erik Satie, composer/pianist, died 07-01-1925
- Born 1891: Elena Stepanova, soprano, died 05-26-1978
- Born 1879: Léon Vallas, musicologist/reviewer, died 05-09-1956
- Born 1912: Sandor Végh, violinist/teacher, died 01-07-1997
- Died 1992: Lawrence Welk, bandleader/accordionist, born 03-11-1908
- Died 2004: William Wildermann, bass singer, born 12-02-1919
- Born 1901: Joseph Witt, tenor/teacher, died 01-??-1994 [teacher of bass-baritone Walter Berry]
- Born 1912: Percy M. Young, critic/author, died 05-09-2004 [Sir Edward Elgar biographer]
"I will live alone and pour my pain with passion into music, where it turns to what is best within my better self."
—George Eliot
What happened on this day in music history?
In 1969 in New York City, Leonard Bernstein gave his final concert as musical director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
