* August 12,1928
Death of LeosJanacek -Ostrau ,Czechoslovakia......
Significant and prolific composer.
Notable works include''Sinfonietta''for orchestra. (Born:July 3,1854)
Death of Jacopo Peri 1633 in Florence
(OPERA,CHORAL,BALLET,S
ONGS)
*13 AUGUST 1948
Birth of Kathleen BATTLE in Portsmouth, Ohio, USA
She is an african/american operatic soprano
* 13 August
Death of Jules MASSENET in Paris..
Works include :opera orchestra,choral,chamber music,ballet keyboard,songs
* August 15
Birth of Coleridge-Samuel,Taylor 1875 in London
HISTORICAL PERIOD:romantic
COMPOSITION MEDIA:orchestra,chamber music,opera,vocal,keyboard.
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Most notable work is his''Song of''Hiawatha''trilogy.
Death of Schnabel Artur,1951-Axenstein,Switzerla
nd(born April 17,1882 in Lipnik,Austria
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Mode
COMPOSITIONAL GENRE(S):Orchestra,chamber music,keyboard,songs
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Professional pianist and composer whose works are dissonant and atonal.
Birth of Ibert,Jaques(Francois Antoine ) 1890 in Paris.
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Modern
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Orcestra,chamber music,ballet keyboard,choral,opera,film.
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Notable works inklude''Concherto for Flute and Orchestra''and the ''Divertissment for Orchestra''
Birth of Foss Lukas (real name:Lukas Fuchs) 1922 in
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Modern(still alive)
COMPOSITION MEDIA :Orchestra,chamber music,ballet keyboard,choral,opera,electron
ick
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Compositions include a variety of styles including American folk music and serial techniques
August 16
Death of Compere Loyset
-1518 -Saint Quentin
HISTORICAL PERIOD;Renaissance
COMPOSITION MEDIA:Church musician and composer
IMPORTANT ITEMS:His survival output consists principally of motets and chansons.
Conpere has long been overshadowed by his younger contemporary,Josquin des Prez.
August 17,
Death of Salzedo Carlos
-1961-Waterville,ME
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Modern
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Orchestra,chamber music.
IMPORTANT ITEMS:All compositions include the harp.Introduced special effects for the harp.
Death of Bennett Russell
-1981-Kansas City
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Modern
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Orchestra,chamber music,keyboard,choral,opera,so
ngs,film,band.
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Notable works include orchestrations of Broadway musicals including''My Fair Lady''
Death of Bull Ole-Bergen
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Romantic
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Violinist,composer
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Hisplayng skills were comparable to Paganini,s,and Schumann was struck by his beautiful tone.His compositions,which include the song''Saeterjentens Sondag,are rich inmelody and harmony.
Πληροφορία : Christos Droutsos
Death of Gérard Souzay (8 December 1918 – 17 August 2004). He was a French baritone singer, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie (French art song) in the generation after Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.
Ο GERARD SOUZAY ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΕΙ ΕΔΩ ΤΟ "L' INVITATION AU VOYAGE" TOY DUPARC ΣΕ ΠΟΙΗΣΗ CHARLES BAUDELAIRE....
August 18
Birth of SALIERI ANTONIO
-1750-Verona,Italy
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Classical
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Opera,orchestra,chamber music,keyboard,choral.
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Prolific composer,conductor and teacher whose students included Beethoven,Schubert and Liszt.
August 19
Birth of Enesco(Enescu)Georges
-1881-Liveni-Romania...d.1955
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Modern
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Orchestra,chamber music,keyboard,choral,opera
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Many of his compositios incorporate Romanian folk idioms.
* AUGUST 20
Death of PERI,JACOPO
Born in Rome -1561 in Rome
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Baroque
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Opera,choral,ballet,songs.
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Notable for what is considered the first opera'Dafne'
Death of Victoria Tomas Luis de-1611-Avila,Spain
historical period:Late Renaissance
compositionalmedia:choral
IMPORTANT ITEMS:One of the most important composers of sacred choral music of the late Renaissance.
* August 21
BOULANGER,LILI, Born in Paris in 1893
French composer.Influenced in her childhood by Faure and by her elder sister Nandia.
She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome,in 1913.She composed prolifically,in spite of the ill health
that led her to her early death.
WORKS:Include a few orchestral and instrumental pieces;much choral music,including the powerful setting of Psalm 130
* August 22
Birth of CLAUDE DEBUSSY
in 1862 in Saint Germain-en-Laye,France
HISTORICAL PERIOD:MODERN
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Orchestra,chamber music,ballet,keyboard,choral,o
pera,songs.
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Important impressionist composer.Notable works include''La Mer''for orchestra,the opera ''
''Pelleas et Melisande''and numerous pieces for piano.
Death of Marenzio Luka
in 1599 in Rome
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Renaissance
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Choral
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Best known as a composer of madrigals
* August 23
Birth of Moritz Moszkowski
-1854 in Breslau.
German composer,pianist and conductor.At the age of 11 he entered the Dresden Conservatory.
Later on,increasing stage fright,however,brought an end to a promising performing career,and he
began to concentrate on conducting and composing.
Death of Irving Fine
-1962 in Boston
American composer,studied in Paris with Nandia Boulanger.Influenced by Stravinsky's neo-classicism.
His small output includes a string quartet,a symphony,and various vocal works.
Death of Albert Roussel
-1995 in Royan,France
orchestra,chamber music ,ballet,opera,keyboard,songs.
His compositions are in a neoclassical style.Notable works include the ballet''Bacchus et Ariane''
Birth of Krenek Ernst
-1900 in Vienna
orchestra,chamber music,ballet,keyboard,choral,o
pera,electronic.
notable works include the opera''Jonny spielt auf''which incorporates jazz.
Birth of William Primrose-1903 in Glasgow-Scottish viola player,he led the violas in Toscanini's NBC orchestra.
Bartok,Rubbra,and Fricker wrote cocertos for him.The tone he produced was both beautiful and rounded.
* AUGUST 24
Death of CRESTON PAUL
-1985 in New York
orchestra,chamber music,keyboard,choral.
Prolific composer and author.Studied piano and organ,but he was self-taught in harmony,theory and
composition.
Birth of THEODORE DUBOIS
-1837 in Rosnay.
French composer and organist.He rose through the meritocratic system of the Paris Conservatoire,
winning the Prix de Rome in 1861.Of his compositions,little besides an organ Toccata is known today.
Death of KENNETH LEIGHTON
-1988 in Edinburgh.
He studied classics at Oxford University (1947-51)and composition in Rome with Petrassi91951)
His large output includes two symphonies,several concertos,and much church music,the style
owing something to Bartok and Hindermith.
Birth of RICHARD MEALE
-1932 in Sydney
Australian composer ,pianist and teacher.
He has composed two operas,VOSS(Adelaide,1986)MER DE GLACE(Sydney,1991)and a Symphony(1944)
* AUGUST 25
Death of CARLOS DE SEIXAS
--1742 in Lisbon.
Portuguese composer,harpsichordist,and organist.
Like his colleague Domenico Scarlati,he wrote highly original harpsichord sonatas,he however,retained the multimovement form,though bsome are in single movements.He also composed organ,orchestral,and
sacred music;the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 may account for the fact that few copies survive.
Birth of LEONARD BERNSTEIN
-1918 in Lawrence MA.
American composer and conductor
COMPOSITIONAL MEDIA:Orchestra,chamber music,ballet,keyboard,choral,o
pera,musicals,film,TV.
NOTABLE WORKS:''Candide''and ''West Side Story''
Birth of VALEN FARTEIN
-1887 IN Stavanger)
Norwegian composer and teacher.He first studied language and literature but soon switched to music,studying theory.Initially,Valen's works were on a small scale:songs(some with orchestra),chamber music,coral pieces and nine orchestral poems.The of his five symphonies appeared in 1939.
Birth of STEFAN WOLPE
-1902 in Berlin
German-born American composer,studied at the Berlin Conservatory(1919-1924)but was more influenced at that time with Busoni and Hermann Scherchen.
.Hisworks from the 1920s often show a vein of sharp political satire,but the arrival of Hitler in power forced a change of directionHe devoted his aqttention to abstract pieces of instrumental combinations.
* AUGUST 26
Death of LOTTE LEHMANN
-1976 in Santa Barbara,CA .
German born American soprano,discovered by Richard Strauss.
She settled in California in 1939 and not retiring until 1951.
She was one of the greatests artists of the 20th century at ease in lieder and on the operatic stage.
Birth of SALLY BEAMISH
-1956 in London
She began her career as a viola player but concentrated on composition after moving to Scotland in 1989
Her music calls on a wide range of literary and religious sources,for example the Viola Concerto(1955) which
evokes Peter's denial of Christ.
Death of DANIEL GOTTLOB TURK
--1813 in Clausnitz,Saxony
HISTORICAL PERIOD:classical
COMPOSITION MEDIA:choral,keyboard,orchestr
a,opera,songs.
NOTABLE WORKS include keyboard and choral compositions.
Death of VAUGHAM WILLIAMS
--1958--London
A late romantic composer whose wo0rks include orchestra,chamber music,ballet,keyboard,choral,o
pera,songs theatrical,film,band.
Prolificcomposer of melodic music.Notable works include''3 Norfolk Rhapsodies''and''Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis''
* AUGUST 27
Death of THOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA
--1611 in Madrid.
He was the greatestSpanish composer of the Renaissance,and one of thefinest European composers of the time,his total output is,however,much smaller than those of,for example,Palestrina and Lassus.
Victoria's modern reputation long rested mainly on a handful of motets(such as O magnum mysterious,O quam
gloriosum etc.)
Birth of CONSTANT LAMBERT
--1905 in London
English composer.The late 20s and early 30s proved to be Lambert's most fertile period.
Appointed conductor of the Carmargo Society in 1930 and musical director of theVic-Wells (later Sandler's
Wells,still later Royal)Ballet in 1931.
Birth of ERIC COATES
--1886 in Hucknall ,Notts.
English composer,studied the violin and composition in Nottingham,then switced to the viola,studying with
Lionel Tertis and becoming principal viola in Henry Wood's Queen'sHill Orchestra in 1912.By then he had begun
to compose regularly and after 1919 he became a freelance composer of light music.
Birth of REBECCA CLARKE
-1886 in Harrow
English viola player and composer
A recital career took her in 1916 to USA ,where she stayed until after World War 1.In1939 she revisited America
There she married a fellow RCM student and composer,James Friskin in 1944.
Among her output is a series of lullabies(including the exquisite ''Morpheus)for viola
She died in N Y IN 1979
Death of JOSQUIN DES PREZ
-1521 INcONDE-SUR=l'Escaut,France
HISTORICAL PERIOD:Renaissance
COMPOSITION MEDIA:Choral,chamber music
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Influential Renaissance composer of expressive choral music
* AUGUST 28
Death of JOHANN SCHOBERT
--1767 in Paris.
Silesian composer and harpsichordist.In the early 1760s he settled in Paris(born in Silesia 1735),where he worked for the Prince of Conti,and became a celebrated keybord player.His early death was caused by eating poisonous mushrooms.
His output includes several sets of keyboard sonatas with violin accompaniment,five keyboard concertos,and an
unsuccessful opera comique.
Birth of IVOR GURNEY
in Gloucester
English composer,studied with Stanford at the RCM in 1911.In World War 1 he swerved in France until he was wounded,gassed,snd shell-shoched in 1917.After discharge from the army he returned to the RCM to study
with Vaughan Williams.He left in 1921 but was unable to find employment.Serious deterioration in his mental
condition led to his admission to mental hospital,where he died of tuberculosis.
A song writer of rare distinction who looked more to the German lied tradition than to the folksong manner.
Notable for his'English'FIVE ELIZABETHAN SONGS(1912)
Birth of KARL BOHM
1894 in Salzburg
Austrian conductor.He went to Munich to assist Bruno Walter,who strongly influenced him,as did Karl Muck.
He conducted regularly at the Saltzburg and in Bayreuth.
Birth of UMBERTO GIORDANO
-1867 in Milan
Italian composer.As a student he won sixth prize in a one-act opera competition.This led to further commissions,
among which the most succesful was ANDREA CHENIER(1896),FEDORA(1898)and SIBERIA(1903)
Birth of PETER VON WINTER
--1754 in Mannheim
German composer.In 1780 he visited Vienna,where he studied with Salieri and met Mozart.
He composed over 40 ballets and operas,which were performed as far afield as Naples,Paris and London.
His worcs include the SINSPIEL DAS LABYRINTH:a sequel to Mozart's DIE ZAUBERFLOTE
Death of BOHUSLAV MARTINU
1959 in Basel,Switzerland
MODERN COMPOSER(orchestra,chamber music, choral ,keyboard,songs, electronic,
IMPORTANT ITEMS:Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his chamber piece ''Notturno
* AUGUST 29
Death of DAVID FELICIEN
1876 in St Germain-en-Laye.
French composer,studied at the Paris Conservatoire,then joined the 'Saint -Simonians,becoming the most prominent musician in the order.In 1832 he travelled in the Middle East ,finding in it a fascinating source of musical inspiration.Back in France,he achieved great success with his 'ode-symphonie'LE DESERT(1844)
Other concert works and songs were successful,but the opera comiquLALLA ROUKH(1862),which held the stage for 20 years,is recognized as his masterpiece.
Death of LOUIS COUPERIN
-1661 in Paris
French composer,violin player,and among the most skilled keyboard players of his day.
In about 1650 Louis and his brothers(Francois and Charles)serenated Chambonnieres,who invited them to travel to Paris where they might seek their fortunes.
He became organist of St Gervais and a treble viol player at the court in 1653
None of his works were published;the surviving music is restricted to three manuscripts containing music of astonishing quality and breadth
* AUGUST 30
Death of ANDREA GABRIELI 1585 in Venice b1533.
He was organist at S.Geremia(now S.Lucia)in Cannarregio,northen Venice in 1557,when he took part unsuccesfully in the competition for the post of organist at S.Mark,s.Five years later he went to Munich
to work in the Bavarian court chapel under Lassus,and the two composers became friends.Gabrieli
returned to Venice in 1566 and this time was successful when he applied for a position as one of the organists
at S.Mark's.He remained there until his death.
NOTABLE WORKS:His grande music for the splendid festivals of St.Mark's,using the*cori spezzati
arrangement which he had learned from the former Venetian maestro,Willaert,and from Lassus.
* AUGUST 31
Death of LJUBA WELISCH
--1996 in Wienna
Bulgarian-born Austrian soprano,played the violin as a child,going on to study philosophy at Sofia University
before turning to singing.She joined the Wienna State Opera in 1944 and Covent Garden in 1947.
She was famous--even notorious--for the unbridled eroticism she brought to her singing.Her SALOME,a role
she was coached by Strauss,was considered definite.
Death of FRANCESCO TAMAGNO
-1905 -in Varese.
Italian tenor,first appeared at La Scala,Milan in 1877.
In 1881 he sang Adorno in the first performance of the revised Simon Boccanegra,and Verdi chose him to create the title role in ''Otello''in 1887.
Birth on AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
-1834-IN Paderno,near Cremona.
Italian composer,studying at the Milan Conservatory,graduating in 1854.
His first opera'',I Promesi Sposi'' was first performed in Gremona in 1856 before he was taken up by Giulio Ricordi
at that time Itali's most powerful publisher.
The finest fruit of this commercial and artistic collaboration was ''La Gioconda(La Scala 1876).
Birth of ALMA MAHLER-WERFEL
-1879-WIENNA
Austrian writer and composer,met Gustav Mahler in 1901 and married him a year later,abandoning
composition at his request.After Mahler's death in 1911 she returned sporadically to composition,
publishing a further set of songs in 1924
After an intense relationship with the painter Oskar Kokoschka,she married and subsequently
the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropious.
Her third husbund,whom she married in 1929 was the novelist Franz Werfel,one of whose poems she had set
in 1915.After his death she moved to NY.Her reputation as artistic muse and femme fatale rests partly on Mahler's music and on her two volumes of autobiography:''Gustav Mahler''
Death of CLAUDE GOUDIME
L-1528-Lyons
French composer,whose early worcsinclude masses and motets for the catholic rite,as well as many sansons.
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