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Strings is written by and for players and teachers of bowed stringed instruments. Each issue features lively interviews with such luminaries as Itzhak Perlman, Edgar Meyer, and Yo-Yo Ma. Plus, it's filled with music to play, from long-forgotten pieces to new works.
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on July 16 in...
- 1782 In Vienna, FP of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
- 1855 Birth of English organist and ecclesiastical music scholar Charles F. A.
WILLIAMS.
- 1858 Birth of Belgian Violinist, conductor, and composer Eugene YSAYE. Conducted
the Cincinnati Orchestra from 1918 to 1922. Franck dedicated his Violin and Piano sonata
to him. d-1931
- 1863 Birth of Austrian-American concert pianist Fanny BLOOMFELD ZEISLER in
Bielitz.
- 1876 Birth of English musicologist, author and professor of music at Cambridge,
Edward J. DENT.
- 1877 Birth of French composer and theorist Louis VILLERMIN.
- 1898 Birth of Armand TOKATYAN, tenor, in Alexandria Egypt.
- 1901 Birth of Austrian conductor and composer Fritz MAHLER, nephew of Gustav,
in Vienna. In America since 1936.
- 1904 Birth of Italian composer Goffredo PETRASSI in Zagarolo, near Rome.
- 1902 Death of composer Heinrich Hofmann at Gross-Tabarz, Germany age 60.
- 1927 Birth of French conductor Serge BAUDO.
- 1928 Birth of Russian pianist Bella DAVIDOVICH in Baku USSR.
- 1941 Birth of English composer Geoffrey BURGON.
- 1948 Birth of Violinist and Conductor Pinchas ZUKERMAN in Tel Aviv Israel.
- 1959 Birth of English pianist and composer Joanna MacGREGOR.
- 1959 Birth of Scottish composer James MacMILLAN.
- 1989 Death of German conductor Herbert von Karajan, near Salzburg.
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