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Music Almanac - April

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April 1
1848 - Gaetano Donizetti died today in Bergamo (Italy)
1873 - Birth of Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff (Semyonouo, Russia)
1917 - Today the world lost Scott Joplin, Ragtime music's primary composer (New York)
April 2
1800 - Beethoven's first symphony debut in Vienna
1911 - First performance of Maurice Ravel's 'Daphnis and Chloe' at a concert in Paris
April 3
1897 - Johannes Brahms died today in Vienna
1911 - First performance of Sibelius's 'Fourth Symphony' conducted by himself (Helsinki, Finland)
April 4
1793 - Handel's Oratorio 'Israel in Egypt' first performed in London
1867 - First performance of Camille Saint-Saens's first violin concerto (Paris)
April 5
1803 - Beethoven conducts his Symphony No. 2 in Vienna
1869 - Birthday of composer Albert Roussel (Tourcoing, France)
1908 - Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan was born today
1914 - First performance of Stravinsky's Ballet 'Rite of Spring' (Paris)
April 6
1867 - Schubert's 'Unfinished Symphony' first performed, 39 years after his death (England)
1971 - Russian composer Igor Stravinsky died today in New-York City
April 7
1805 - First performance of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, 'Eroica' (Vienna)
April 8
1703 - Today J.S. Bach began to play as violinist, in the chamber orchestra in Weimar
1858 - Death of Anton Diabelli who composed the waltz which Beethoven used for his "Diabelli Variations"
April 9
1794 - Happy Birthday to the inventor of the modern flute Theobald Bohm
April 10
1868 - First performance of Brahms's "German Requiem"
1930 - Birthday of jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling (Cannes, France)
April 11
1970 - "The Beatles" topped the charts with one of the finest songs ever - "Let It Be"
April 12
1684 - Violin craftsman Nicolo Amati died today (Cremona, Italy)
1826 - First performance of Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Oberon" (London)
April 13
1377 - French poet and composer Guillaume De Machaut died today
1742 - First performance of Handel's 'Messiah' in Dublin
April 14
1759 - Death of German born composer G. F. Handel (London)
1933 - Happy Birthday to teacher and composer Morton Subotnik (L.A., USA)
April 15
1652 - Birth of Italian cellist and composer Domenico Gabrielli in Bologna
1728 - First performance of J.S. Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' in Leipzig
1902 - First performance also of Ravel's 'Pavanne for a Dead Princess' (Paris)
April 16
1889 - Birth of movie actor, director and composer Charlie Chaplin (London)
1924 - Happy Birthday also to American composer and conductor Henry Mancini (Cleveland)
April 17
1970 - Today "The Beatles" officially ceased to work together, as McCartney's first solo album was released
April 18
1605 - Birth of composer Giacomo Carissimi (Marino, Italy)
1882 - Happy Birthday also to the English conductor Leopold Stokowski
1936 - Italian composer Ottorino Respighi died today
April 19
1899 - First performance of Cesar Franck's String Quartet (Paris)
April 20
1759 - Buriel of Handel in Westminster Abbey (London)
April 21
1918 - First Performance of Prokofiev's 'Classical Symphony' (Petrograd, Russia)
April 22
1892 - Composer Eduard Lalo died today in Paris
1916 - Happy Birthday to American violinist-conductor Yehudi Menuhin (New York)
1922 - Jazz composer and Bass player Charles Mingus's birthday (Nogales, Arizona, USA)
April 23
1857 - Birth of composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (Naples, Italy)
April 24
1934 - Laurens Hammond patents the first electric organ
1941 - Guitarist John Williams's birth (Melbourne, Australia)
April 25
1926 - Puccini's opera 'Turandot' first performance at La Scala with Toscaninini conducting
April 26
1899 - First performance of Sibelius's 'First Symphony' with the Composer conducting (Helskinki, Finland)
April 27
1891 - Happy Birthday also to composer Sergei Prokofiev (Sontzovka, Russia)
1915 - Alexander Scriabin, the composer, died in Moscow
April 28
1987 - The first compact disk (CD) was released
April 29
1899 - Happy Birthday to Jazz composer Edward "Duke" Ellington (Washington D.C.)
April 30
1902 - First performance of Debussy's opera 'Pelleas and Melisande' (Paris)
1911 - Jascha Heifetz - 10 year old violinist performs for the first time in his life (St. Peterburg)

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