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Music Almanac - February

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February 1
1896 - Today in Turin, Italy - the Premiere of Puccini's "La Boheme", Toscanini conducting.
February 2
1594 - Death of Italian composer Giovanni Palestrina in Rome at age 68.
1875 - Birthday of legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler. Was Born in Vienna, Austria.
1901 - Another Violin-hero, Jascha Heifetz, was born in Vilnius, Russia.
1959 - Happy birthday to the late Buddy Holly, ever-popular rock star.
February 3
1809 - Today German composer Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg
February 4
1924 - Pianist Claudio Arrau performed in America for the first time.
February 5
1816 - First performance of Rossini's "Barber of Seville". Rome, Italy.
February 6
1497 - The death of Flemmish composer Johaness Ockeghem
1851 - First performance of Schumann's Third ('Rhenish') Symphony in Dusseldorf, Germany
February 7
1964 - "The Beatles" arrive in the USA on their first tour in America
February 8
1872 - First European performance of Verdi's "Aida"
1908 - Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony first played, in St. Petersburg, with the composer conducting.
1932 - Happy Birthday to American pianist, composer and conductor John Williams
February 9
1885 - Birth of Austrian composer Alban Berg in Vienna.
1941 - Happy Birthday to American pop singer and song-writer Carol King
February 10
1881 - First Performance of Offenbach's opera 'Tales of Hoffmann' in Paris
February 11
1903 - First Performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, in Vienna, Austria
February 12
1924 - First Performance of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody In Blue' with Gershwin as pianist. New-York.
February 13
1778 - Happy Birthday to Spanish composer Fernando Sor (Barcelona)
1883 - German composer Richard Wagner died today in Bayreuth
February 14
1867 - Johann Strauss Jr's "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" - first performance in Vienna
1987 - Dmitri Kabalevsky died today in Moscow, Russia.
February 15
1571, 1621 - Birth and death on the same day of German composer Michael Praetorius
1857 - Russian composer Mikhail Glinka died in Berlin.
February 16
1829 - Composer François Gossec died today in Paris
1854 - First performance (Weimar) of Liszt's Symphonic Poem 'Orpheus'
February 17
1653 - Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli's birthday near Milan
1904 - Also in Milan, at 'La Scala', first performance of Puccini's 'Madam Butterfly'.
1962 - Death of conductor Bruno Walter
1982 - Great Jazz pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk, died today
February 18
1655 - Birthday to Pietro Giovanni Guarneri, great Italian violin maker.
1807 - Publication of Beethoven's 'Appassionata' Piano Sonata in f minor, No 23, Op 57
February 19
1743 - Happy Birthday to the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini
February 20
1770 - Italian composer Ferdinando Carulli was born today
1791 - Birth of Austrian pianist and composer Carl Czerny (Vienna)
1816 - Rossini's opera 'The Barber of Seville' first performed (Rome)
1937 - First performance of Prokofiev's 'Lieutenant Kije' (Moscow)
February 21
1836 - French ballet composer Leo Delibes's Birthday
1893 - Happy Birthday to Spanish guitarist and teacher Andres Segovias
February 22
1810 - Birthday of great Piano composer Frederick Chopin
1903 - On this day died the Austrian composer Hugo Wolf (Vienna)
February 23
1685 - Birth of Baroque's great composer G. F. Handel (Halle, Germany)
1934 - English composer Sir Edward Elgar died
February 24
1607 - First performance of Monteverdi's opera 'Orfeo' (Mantua, Italy)
1876 - First performance of Ibsen's drama 'Peer Gynt' with Grieg's music (Christiania)
February 25
1873 - Happy Birthday to the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (Naples)
1904 - Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn" - first performance
1943 - Also born on this day - George Harrison - the 'Beatles' guitarist
February 26
1933 - First performance (Paris) of Bizet's Symphony in C, from a manuscript found 77 years after it was written
February 27
1814 - First performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 (Vienna)
1887 - Russian composer Alexander Borodin died in St. Petersburg
February 28
1862 - First performance of Gounod's opera 'The Queen of Sheba' (Paris)
1920 - Ravel's 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' first performed in public (Paris)
February 29
1792 - Birth of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini

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