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on June 25 in...
- -930 Death of Hucbald, a Benedictine monk. He invented the music staff
note.
- 1708 Bach takes position of at Weimar.
- 1840 For the 400th anniversary of the Gutenberg Printing Press,
Mendelssohn presents his Symphony No. 2, Lobegesang (Song of Praise)
at Thomaskirche in Leipzig.
- 1850 FP of Schumann's opera Genoveva in Leipzig..
- 1855 Birth of Hungarian soprano Etelka GERSTER.
- 1860 Birth of French composer Gustave CHARPENTIER d- 1956.
- 1886 Chief of Rio de Janeiro Opera resigns. 19 year old cellist Arturo
Toscanini conducts with acclaim.
- 1897 Birth of German pianist and composer Hans BARTH in Leipzig.
Inventor of quarter-tone piano.
- 1910 In Paris, FP of Stavinsky's Firebird. Performed by Diaghilev's
Ballet Russe.
- 1935 Birth of Austrian composer Kurt SCHWERTSIK.
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