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Music Almanac - June

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June 1
1804 - Happy Birthday to Russian composer Mikhail Glinka (Novosspaskoye)
June 2
1846 - Debut as a pianist for young Camille Saint-Seans (Paris)
1857 - Birth of composer Edward Elgar (Broadheath, England)
June 3
Death of composers Georges Bizet (1875, Bougival, France) and Johann Strauss II (Vienna, 1899)
June 4
1811 - First performance of Weber's opera 'Abu Hassan' (Munich, Germany)
June 5
1826 - Composer Carl Maria Von Weber died (London)
June 6
1903 - Happy birthday to Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian
1924 - First performance of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony (Prague)
June 7
1897 - Conductor and composer George Szell was born today
June 8
1612 - German organist and composer Hans Leo Hassler died
Birth of composers Thomaso Albinoni (1671, Venice) and Robert Schumann (1810, Zwickau, Germany)
First performances of Ravel's ballet 'Daphnis and Chloe' (1912, Paris) and Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana' (1937)
June 9
1891 - Birthday for Cole Porter - American popular music composer
June 10
Death of both composers Ernest Chausson (1899, Mantes) and Frederick Delius (1934, Grez-sur-Loing)
June 11
1864 - German composer Richard Strauss's birthday (Munich)
June 12
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June 13
1899 - Birth of composer Carlos Chavez (Calzada de Tacuba, Mexico)
1911 - Premiere of Stravinsky's 'Petrouchka' (Paris)
June 14
1594 - Death of composer Orlando di Lasso (Munich)
June 15
1843 - Birth of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (Bergen)
1967 - Marriage of pianist-conductor Daniel Barenboim and late cellist Jacqueline DuPre
June 16
1891 - Dvorak receives his Mus.D degree from Cambridge University
June 17
Birth of composers Charles Gounod (1818, Paris) and Igor Stravinsky (1882, Oranienbaum)
June 18
1821 - Weber's opera 'Der Freischutz' debut (Berlin)
1942 - British pop singer and composer Paul Mccartney was born
June 19
1899 - First performance of Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' (London)
June 20
1819 - Birth of composer Jacques Offenbach (Cologne, Germany)
June 21
1868 - Wagner's opera 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg' premiere (Munich)
1908 - Death of Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Liubensk, Russia)
June 22
1911 - Elgar's 'Coronation March' first played at coronation of King George V and Queen Mary
1974 - French composer Darius Milhaud died in Geneva
June 23
1848 - French instrument maker Adolph Sax was born (Paris)
June 24
1854 - Schubert's opera 'Alfonso and Estrella' - the premiere (Weimar, Germany)
June 25
1708 - Today, J.S. Bach got a position at Weimar
1767 - Composer Georg Philipp Telemann died today (Hamburg)
1910 - Stravinsky's 'Firebird' first performed by Diaghilev's Ballet Russe (Paris)
June 26
1912 - First performance of Mahler's 'Ninth Symphony' after his death (Vienna)
1933 - Happy Birthday to Italian conductor Claudio Abbado
June 27
1959 - Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" closed after 734 performances on Broadway (New York)
June 28
1491 - Birth of King of England and part time composer Henry VIII
June 29
1908 - Birth of American composer Leroy Anderson (Cambridge, MA, USA)
1707 - Today J.S. Bach resigned his position in Arnstadt
June 30
1936 - Sergey Rachmaninoff completed his 'symphony No. 6' today

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