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Music Almanac - September

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September 1
1653 - Happy birthday to organist and composer Johann Pachelbel (Nuremberg, Germany)
1854 - Birth of composer Engelbert Humperdinck (Siegburg, Germany)
1935 - Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa's birthday
September 2
1397 - Medieval blind composer Francesco Landini died (Florence, Italy)
1892 - Birth of great violinist Joseph Szigeti (Budapest, Hungarian)
September 3
590 - The Gregorian chant named after Pope Gregorius I who was elected today
1596 - Birthday of stringed instrument maker Nicolo Amati (Cremona, Italy)
September 4
Birth of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824) and French composer Darius Milhaud (1892)
1907 - Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg died today (Bergen, Norway)
September 5
Many composers birthday:
1735 - Johann Christian Bach (Leipzig, Germany)
1781 - Anton Diabelli (Mattsee, Germany)
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer (Berlin, Germany)
1912 - John Cage (Los Angeles, USA)
September 6
1944 - Born, Roger Waters, lead singer of the "Pink Floyd" rock band (Great Bookham, Cambridge, England)
September 7
1936 - Pioneering rock 'n' roll musician known as Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock, Texas, USA
September 8
1613 - Composer Don Carlo Gesualdo died
1841 - Birth of composer Antonin Dvorák (Muhlhausen, Bohemia)
1949 - Death of Richard Wagner (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany)
September 9
1583 - Happy Birthday to organist and composer Girolamo Frescobaldi
September 10
1935 - The most popular sailor in the world, known as "Popeye", was heard for the first time on NBC radio
September 11
1962 - A new Beatle, Ringo Starr, joined John, Paul and George for their first recording session, replacing Pete Best
September 12
Death of French composers Francois Couperin (1733) and Jean Philippe Rameau (1764)
1840 - Marriage of Robert Schumann to Clara Wieck, who will perform many of his great works
September 13
1819 - Happy Birthday to German pianist and composer Clara Wieck Schumann
1874 - Birthday of composer Arnold Schönberg (Vienna)
September 14
1760 - Birth of composer Luigi Cherubini (Florence, Italy)
September 15
1876 - Birth of conductor Bruno Walter (Berlin, Germany)
1945 - Death of composer Anton Webern (Mittersill, Germany)
September 16
1887 - Birth of great music teacher Nadia Boulanger
1920 - Great tenor Enrico Caruso made his last recording before he died in 1921
September 17
1170 - Early music woman-composer Hildegard von Bingen died
September 18
1970 - Died at age 27, one of the greatest rock music legends - Jimi Hendrix (London)
1910 - Birthday to Israeli composer Josef Tal (Poland)
September 19
1908 - Gustav Mahler conducts the first performance of his 7th Symphony (Prague)
September 20
1957 - Death of great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (Järvenpää, Finland)
September 21
1874 - Composer Gustav Holst's birthday (Cheltenham, England)
September 22
1869 - First performance of Wagner's opera 'Das Rheingold' (The Rhein's gold) in Munich
September 23
1835 - Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini died (Puteaux, France)
September 24
1941 - Born, Linda Eastman, photographer, singer and wife of Paul McCartney from "The Beatles"
1964 - 'The Animals' mega-hit 'House of the Rising Sun' on top of charts
September 25
1683 - Birth of composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (Dijon, France)
1906 - Birthday of composer Dimitri Shostakovich (St. Petersburg, Russia)
1932 - Birth of legendary and controversial pianist Glenn Gould (Toronto, Canada)
September 26
1898 - Happy Birthday to composer George Gershwin (Brooklyn,NY)
1945 - Bela Bartók died (New York)
1957 - Opening of Leonard Bernstein's broadway production of 'West Side Story'
September 27
1921 - Death of composer Engelbert Humperdinck (Neustrelitz, Germany)
September 28
1918 - First performance of Stravinsky's 'The Story of a Soldier' (Lusanne, Switzerland)
1991 - The great Jazz musician Miles Davis dies in Santa Monica, CA
September 29
1789 - Today Mozart completed 'Clarinet Quintet, K. 581'
1863 - The premiere of Bizet's opera 'The Pearl Fishers' (Paris)
1918 - First performance of Gustav Holst's 'The Planets' (London)
September 30
1791 - First performance of Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute' (Vienna)
1935 - Premiere of George Gershwin's opera - 'Porgy and Bess'


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