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Music Almanac - October

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October 1
1865 - Birthday to French composer Paul Dukas (Paris)
October 2
1920 - Composer Max Bruch died today (Friednau, Germany)
October 3
1833 - Berlioz marries Henrietta Smithson (Paris)
1936 - Birth of American composer Steve Reich (New York)
October 4
1970 - 27 years old rock legend Janis Joplin died from a drug overdose (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
October 5
1880 - Composer Jacques Offenbach dies in Paris
October 6
1600 - First opera ever, 'Euridice', by Jacopo Peri, at the marriage of Maria d'Medici to Henri IV of France (Florence, Italy)
1927 - First movie music 'The Jazz Singer' with Al Jolson, using audio discs synchronized with the film (New York)
October 7
1955 - Happy birthday to cellist Yo-Yo Ma (Paris, France)
1955 - "Hey Jude", the highest-selling single of "The Beatles", achieved number one status on both the American and British charts
October 8
1585 - Birth of German composer Heinrich Schütz (Kostritz, Germany)
October 9
1813 - Birth of Opera composer Giuseppi Verdi (Le Roncole, Italy)
October 10
1917 - A great Jazz legend, Thelonious Monk was born (Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA)
1935 - First performance on Broadway of George Gershwin's Opera 'Porgy and Bess' (New York)
October 11
1896 - Death of composer Anton Bruckner (Vienna)
October 12
1872 - Birthday of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (Down Ampney, England)
1935 - Happy birthday to Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti
October 13
1890 - Richard Strauss conducting the first performance of his tone poem "Macbeth" (Weimar, Germany)
1941 - Singer and song-writer Paul Simon was born in Newark (New Jersey, USA)
October 14
1990 - American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein died (New York)
October 15
1905 - First performance of Debussy's 'La Mer' (Paris)
1964 - Jazz composer Cole Porter died (Santa Monica, CA, USA)
October 16
1912 - First performance of Schoenberg's 'Pierrot Lunaire' (Berlin, Germany)
1926 - First performance also of Kodály's opera 'Hary Janos' (Budapest, Hungary)
October 17
1707 - J.S. Bach and his cousin Maria Barbara married today
1849 - Great piano composer Frédéric Chopin died today (Paris)
October 18
1893 - French composer Charles Gounod died in Paris
1904 - First performance of Mahler's 'Fifth Symphony' (Cologne, Germany)
October 19
1901 - First performance of Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance' March No 1 in D (Liverpool, England)
1987 - Sad day as English great and young cellist Jacqueline Dupre died in London
October 20
1874 - Birthday of composer Charles Ives (Danbury CN, USA)
October 21
1858 - Offenbach's 'Orpheus in the Underworld' first performed (Paris)
1912 - Conductor Georg Solti's birthday (Budapest, Hungary)
October 22
1811 - Birth of the great composer and pianist Liszt (Raiding, Hungary)
1973 - Death of cellist Pablo Casals (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
October 23
1890 - Premiere of Borodin's opera "Prince Igor" (St. Petersburg, Russia)
October 24
1725 - Italian composer Alesandro Scarlatti died (Naples, Italy)
1913 - Birthday of Italian baritone Tito Gobbi
1925 - Birth of Italian composer Luciano Berio (Oneglia, Italy)
October 25
1825 - Happy birthday to Austrian composer Johann Strauss II (Vienna)
1838 - Also birth of French composer Georges Bizet (Paris)
1885 - Brahms conducting his Fourth Symphony in E minor for the first time (Meiningen, Germany)
October 26
1564 - Happy birthday to Hans Leo Hassler - a composer (Nuremberg, Germany)
1685 - Birth of composer Domenico Scarlatti, son of Alessandro (Naples, Italy)
October 27
1782 - Composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini's birthday (Genoa, Italy)
October 28
1893 - Tchaikovsky conducted his Symphony No. 6's first performance a month before his death (St. Petersburg, Russia)
October 29
1787 - Mozart's opera 'Don Giovanni' first performed (Prague)
October 30
1822 - Schubert begins his Symphony in B minor (the 'Unfinished')
October 31
1887 - First performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Spanish Caprice' (St. Petersburg, Russia)

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