Events in Music
Music Premiere
1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s “Symphony No. 36” premieres in Linz, Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1876 Johannes Brahms’ 1st Symphony in C premieres in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden
- 1890 Alexander Borodin’s opera “Prince Igor” premieres in Petersburg
- 1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music opens in NYC
- 1909 Opera “Il Segreto di Susanna” is produced (Munich)
- 1946 “Park Avenue” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances
- 1950 “Barrier” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
- 1950 “Consul” closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances
- 1954 “Fanny” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances
Event of Interest
1963 John Lennon utters his infamous line at a Royal Variety Performance “Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…” in London
John Lennon
Album Release
1968 “Wichita Lineman” 12th album by Glen Campbell is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1969)
Glen Campbell
Event of Interest
1993 Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet
Elton John
- 1995 “Indiscretions” closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
Album Release
1996 British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut album “Spice”, goes on to sell 23 million copies
Album Release
1997 “Come On Over” 3rd studio album by Shania Twain is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1999)
Shania Twain
- 2003 “Shock’n Y’all” 8th studio album by Toby Keith is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2004)
Event of Interest
2015 Katy Perry is the highest paid musician of the year earning 135 million, according to Forbes Magazine
Katy Perry
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Birthdays in Music
- 1640 Carlo Mannelli, Italian composer, born in Rome (d. 1697)
- 1656 Leonard Sailer, German composer and organist, born in Ulm (d. after 1694)
- 1674 Anton Englert, German composer and organist, born in Schweinfurt (d. 1751)
- 1708 Robert Praelisauer, composer
- 1800 Eduard Brendler, composer
- 1823 Karel Komzák I, Bohemian composer and musician, born in Netěchovice, Czech Republic (d. 1893)
- 1841 Carl Tausig, Polish pianist and composer, born in Warsaw (d. 1871)
- 1846 Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer
- 1859 Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
- 1868 Carolina “La Belle” Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan, born in Valga, Galicia, Spain (d. 1965)
- 1872 Herman Finck, composer
- 1881 Gena Branscombe, composer
- 1887 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer
- 1889 Alton Augustus Adams, composer
- 1891 Miroslav Krejci, Czech composer
- 1897 Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara)
- 1900 Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
- 1903 Ion Vasilescu, composer
- 1906 Arnold Atkinson Cooke, composer
- 1906 Siegfried Borris, composer
- 1911 Ssamu Shimizu, composer
- 1912 Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer
- 1921 Antonio Ruiz Soler, spanish dancer
- 1922 Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer
- 1927 Vittorio Fellegara, composer
- 1935 Elgar Howarth, composer
- 1938 Harry Elston, R&B singer (Friends of Distinction ), born in Dallas, Texas
- 1940 Delbert McClinton, singer (Gonna Find a Good Woman), born in Lubbock, Texas
- 1944 Willem Breuker, Dutch saxophonist/conductor (WB Collective)
- 1954 Chris Difford, British guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze), born in Greenwich, London
- 1956 James Honeyman-Scott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
- 1956 Jeff Watson, rock guitarist (Night Ranger)
- 1956 Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
- 1957 Najee [Jerome Najee Rasheed], American jazz musician, born in NYC, New York
- 1960 Kim Forester, American country singer (Forester Sister-Men), born in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
- 1960 Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle
- 1961 Daron Hagen, American composer
- 1961 Edward Knight, American composer
- 1961 Les Sampou, American musician
- 1961 Edward Knight, Ann Arbor, Michigan, composer
- 1963 Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
- 1963 Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
- 1965 Gregory Scott [Koenig], Dearborn Mich, guitarist (Signs of Life)
- 1965 Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
- 1965 Tomoaki Ishizuka “Pata”, Japanese musician
- 1965 Wayne Static [Wells], American musician (Static-X), born in Muskegon, Michigan (d. 2015)
- 1966 Kool Rock, [Damon Wimbley], rapper (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
Puff Daddy
1969 Puff Daddy [Sean Combs], American rapper and record producer (Come to Me, I’ll be Missing You), born in NYC, New York
Puff Daddy
- 1974 Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta), born in Redwood City. California
- 1975 Michael Osmond, Utah, singer (Osmond Boys)
- 1986 Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress
- 1987 T.O.P. [Choi Seung-hyun], Korean singer-songwriter (Big Bang) and actor, born in Seoul, South Korea
Divorces in Music
Deaths in Music
- 1702 Thomas Eisenhut, German composer, dies at 58
Felix Mendelssohn
1847 Felix Mendelssohn [Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy], German composer and pianist (Great Scherzos), dies at 38
Felix Mendelssohn
- 1853 Alexander Stadtfeld, German composer, dies at 27
- 1890 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46
- 1898 Charles Jerome Hopkins, American composer, dies at 62
- 1924 Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
- 1931 Buddy Bolden, African-American jazz musician, dies
- 1935 Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43
- 1937 Rogelio del Villar, Spanish composer, dies at 61
- 1939 Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer, dies at 69
- 1953 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89
- 1957 Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78
- 1965 Krsto Odak, Croatian composer, dies at 77
- 1969 Ferenc Szabó, Hungarian composer (Lúdas Matyi, Légy jó mindhalálig), dies at 66
- 1994 Fred “Sonic” Smith, American guitarist (MC5), dies at 46
- 1995 Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne, dies at 50
- 2005 Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
- 2010 Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
- 2012 Ted Curson, American jazz trumpeter, dies from a heart attack at 77
- 2016 Eddie Harsch [Edward Hawrysch], Canadian keyboardist (Bulldog, The Black Crowes), dies at 59