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on July 27 in...
- 1547 Birth of Italian composer and music editor Cristofani MALVEZZI in
Lucca.
- 1781 Birth of Italian composer Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo GUILANI
d- 8 MAY 1829.
- 1783 Death of German composer and writer J. P. Kirnberger. Made musical
puzzles.
- 1784 Birth of French-English pianist Aandre Georges Louis ONSLOW in Clermont-Ferrand. d- Clermont-Ferrand
3 OCT 1853.
- 1848 Birth of Russian pianist Vladimir de PACHMAN in Odessa. Well
known for his playing of Chopin music and eccentric performing.
- 1867 (28 or 29th?) Birth of Spanish composer and conductor Enrique
GRANADOS in Lerida. d- 24 MAR 1916.
- 1877 Birth of Hungarian composer and pianist Erno (Ernst) Von DOHNANYI in Poszony, Pressburg.
Grandfather of
conductor Christophe Von Dohnanyi. d-NYC, 9 FEB 1960.
- 1899 Birth of American composer and lecturer Harl McDONALD. Choral
director at University of Pennsylvania. In 1939 manager of the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
- 1912 Birth of Russian-born conductor Igor MARKEVITCH in Kiev.
d-1983.
- 1915 Birth of Italian tenor Mario del Monaco, in Florence.
- 1918 Birth of American cellist Leonard ROSE in Washington, D.C. d-1984. Member of Stern-Rose-Istomin trio..
- 1918 Death of American music critic Gustav Kobbe' off the Long
Island
coast where a navy hydroplane struck the mast of his boat.
- 1924 Birth of composer Otar TAKAKISHVIH.
- 1952 Birth of American soprano Carol VANESS in Los Angeles..
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