#Anton Panufnik

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Maxim Nesterovich / Lena Platonova / Anton Panufnik

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May 20 in Music History

1554 Birth of composer Paulo Bellasio.

1751 Death of Spanish opera composer Domenico Terradella in Rome. 

1754 Birth of composer Hans Gram.

1767 Birth of composer Ferdinand Franzl.

1782 Death of composer and organist Christoph Gottlieb Schroterin.

1798 Birth of French tenor Jean Baptiste Chollet in Paris.

1812 Birth of composer Gustav Adolf Mankell.

1822 Birth of French composer Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard in Nantes. 

1843 Birth of composer Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia

1846 FP is USAmerica of Beethoven's Choral Symphony No. 9. New York Philharmonic at Castle Garden, George Loder, Jr. conducting.

1850 Birth of composer Eaton Faning.

1856 Birth of Scottish-American pianist and composer Helen Hopekirk. 

1859 Birth of French opera conductor and composer Eugène D' Harcourt.

1865 Birth of French tenor Georges Imbart de la Tour in Paris. 

1870 Birth of German bass Max Lohfing. 

1871 Birth of French baritone Eugenio Giraldoni in Marseilles. 

1874 FP of F. Erkel's "Brankovics Gyoergy" Budapest.

1878 Birth of Czech composer Karl III Komzäk.

1889 Birth of composer Feliz Arndt. 

1893 Birth of German bass-baritone Hans Hermann Nissen in Danzig. 

1893 FP of Smareglia's "Cornelio Schutt" Prague.

1896 Death of German pianist, composer Clara Wieck Schumann.

1897 Birth of Polish soprano Eva Bandrowska-Turska in Cracau. 

1903 Birth of Polish composer Jerzy Fitelberg in Warsaw. 

1906 Birth of baritone Gerhard Niese in Rostock.

1906 Birth of German bass Hans Kramer in Mainz. 

1909 Birth of Austrian bass-baritone Erich Kunz in Vienna. 

1909 Birth of French baritone Marcel Enot in Saint-Lo. 

1917 Death of Italian soprano Romilda Pantaleoni.

1917 Birth of composer Enyss Djemil.

1920 Birth of American pianist Hephzibah Menuhin in San Francisco. 

1922 FP of Henriques's "Staerstikkeren" Copenhagen.

1923 Birth of American composer Ludmila Ulehla. 

1923 FP of Petrauskas' "The Devil Inventer" South Boston.

1925 Birth of American baritone Chester Ludgin in Brooklyn. 

1926 Birth of English conductor George Hurst.

1927 Birth of composer Walter Aschaffenburg.

1927 Birth of composer David Frederick Barlow

1930 Birth of German soprano Eva Bober in Berlin. 

1932 FP of Chlubna's "Nura" Brno.

1933 FP of Hanson's "Merry Mount" Ann Arbor, composer conducting.

1936 Birth of French baritone Jacques Herbillon in Rheims. 

1937 FP of John J. Becker's Symphony No. 3 Symphonia Brevis at the Saint Paul Auditorium. Twin Cities Civic Federal Music Project with Minnesota Orchestra composer conducting.

1938 Birth of Danish soprano Lone Koppel in Copenhagen.

1940 Birth of Swiss conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacker.

1943 Birth of American composer Tison Street in Boston.

1948 FP of Darius Milhaud's Sym No 4, composer conducting, in Paris.

1950 Birth of English organist Jane Parker Smith.

1950 FP of William Bergsma´s Symphony No. 1 on a radio broadcast.

1950 FP of Burghauser's "Lakomec" Liberec.

1951 Death of Dutch composer Jan Ingenhoven in Breda.

1952 Birth of English opera director Tim Albery.

1953 Birth of American composer Mark Hagerty.

1954 FP of Bucchi's "Il Contrabasso" Florence.

1956 Death of Dutch choral conductor and composer Jan Ingenhoven.

1956 Birth of Irish mezzo-soprano Ethna Robinson in Dublin. 

1959 Death of Italian tenor Gaston Micheletti. 

1961 FP of Henze's "Elegy for Young Lovers" chamber opera, Schwetzingen. With D. Fischer-Dieskau.

1966 Birth of English clarinetist Emma Johnson.

1969 Death of Welch bass-baritone Derick Davies. 

1971 FP of Overton's "Huckleberry Finn" Juilliard American Opera Center, NYC.

1973 FP of Gian Carlo Menotti's Suite for Two Cellos. With cellists Gregor Piatigorsky and Leslie Parnas, and pianist Charles Wadsworth in NYC.

1974 FP of Andrzej Panufnik's Sinfonia Concertante in London.

1976 Death of Russian tenor Victor Bregy. 

1977 FP of Alan Hovhaness' Rubaiyat for narrator, accordion, and orchestra, in NYC.

1978 Death of violinist and composer Bjarne Brustad.

1979 FP of Tobias Picker´s Romance for violin and piano, with Linda Quan, violin and Aleck Karis, piano, at York College, The City University of New York.

1989 FP of Katherine Hoover's Quintet Da Pacem for piano quintet. Members of the New Jersey Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall in NYC.

1995 Death of American composer Ulysses Kay, in Englewood, NJ. 

2000 Death of French flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal.

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No one likes to arrive too early at a party. There’s no one to talk to and nowhere to hide. You can’t leave without being conspicuously rude.  In due course you find yourself talking about car insurance (or worse still, Brexit) with other new arrivals. Of course, there’s the decor to look at (paintings you don’t much like) and there’s the buffet, tempting but as yet untouchable.

As hosts, though, we’re always grateful to those who arrive early and get things going.

New social networks have a hard time too. What’s the point of joining if no one’s there?

In gigglemusic, our new social network for classical musicians, we try to solve that problem by offering new users content that doesn’t depend on the community being large. We’ve uploaded the schedules of major classical music venues around the world (for the moment mainly opera houses).

We’ve also entered the ‘diaries’ of the world’s greatest composers – well, the greatest composers writing within the Western tradition or having some significant influence on it. By their diaries I mean their dates and places of birth and death (though many are still alive and kicking) and the dates and places of the first performances of their major works. Almost all of this comes from Wikipedia.

It may be a bit like trainspotting, but I, for one, find it mildly interesting to know where this or that masterpiece was first performed, and when.

To review a composer’s diary, start with People, open a profile, tap Diary and then scroll up to go back in time. Tap on an individual work to find out more. There’s usually a Wikipedia article to link to.

  But who are the world’s greatest composers?

There’s no ideology behind the selection I’ve made, and no conscious exclusions (I’ve even included Carl Orff). They’re just the first 292 composers who came to mind, and for whom there was also a Wikipedia entry. I’m sure the assiduous researcher will detect unconscious bias, but if you do, please tell me who I’ve missed. There’s room for nearly everyone in gigglemusic.

Adam (Adolphe) Adams (John) Adès (Thomas) Albeniz (Isaac) Albinoni (Tomaso) Alwyn (William) Arne (Thomas) Arnold (Malcolm) Auric (Georges) Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel) Bach (Johann Sebastian) Balakirev (Mily) Barber (Samuel) Bartok (Bela) Bax (Arnold) Beach (Amy) Beamish (Sally) Beethoven (Ludwig van) Bellini (Vincenzo) Bennett (Richard Rodney) Berg (Alban) Berio (Luciano) Berkeley (Lennox) Berkeley (Michael) Berlioz (Hector) Berners (Gerald (Lord)) Bernstein (Leonard) Berwald (Franz) Birtwistle (Harrison) Bizet (Georges) Bliss (Arthur) Blitzstein (Marc) Bloch (Ernst) Blow (John) Bologne (Joseph) Borodin (Alexander) Boulanger (Lili) Boulanger (Nadia) Boulez (Pierre) Bowen (York) Bozza (Eugene) Brahms (Johannes) Brian (Havergal) Bridgetower (George) Britten (Benjamin) Bruch (Max) Bruckner (Anton) Bush (Alan) Busoni (Ferrucio) Butterworth (George) Buxtehude (Dietrich) Cage (John) Canteloube (Joseph) Carter (Elliot) Chabrier (Emmanuel) Chagrin (Francis) Chaminade (Cécile) Charpentier (Gustave) Chausson (Ernest) Cherubini (Luigi) Chopin (Frédéric) Cilea (Francesco) Cimarosa (Domenico) Clarke (Rebecca) Clementi (Muzio) Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel) Copland (Aaron) Corelli (Arcangelo) Cornelius (Peter) Couperin (Francois) Cui (César) Czerny (Carl) Dallapiccola (Luigi) Debussy (Claude) Delibes (Léo) Delius (Frederick) Dittersdorf (Carl Ditters von) Dohnányi (Ernst von) Donizetti (Gaetano) Dorati (Antal) Dukas (Paul) Duruflé (Maurice) Dutilleux (Henri) Dvorak (Antonin) Einem (Gottfried von) Eisler (Hans) Elgar (Edward) Ellington (Duke) Enescu (George) Erkel (Ferenc) Falla (Manuel de) Fauré (Gabriel) Feldman (Morton) Ferguson (Howard) Ferneyhough (Brian) Field (John) Finzi (Gerald) Francaix (Jean) Franck (César) Gabrieli (Giovanni) Gershwin (George) Ginastera (Alberto) Giordano (Umberto) Glass (Philip) Glazunov (Alexander) Glière (Reinhold) Glinka (Mikhail) Gluck (Christoph Willibald) Górecki (Henryk) Gounod (Charles) Grainger (Percy) Granados (Enrique) Grieg (Edvard) Grovlez (Gabriel) Gubaidulina (Sofia) Gurney (Ivor) Haas (Pavel) Handel (George Frideric) Harty (Hamilton) Haydn (Joseph) Head (Michael) Hindemith (Paul) Hoddinott (Alun) Holliger (Heinz) Holst (Gustav) Honegger (Arthur) Howells (Herbert) Hummel (Johann Nepomuk) Humperdinck (Engelbert) Ibert (Jacques) Indy (Vincent d’) Ireland (John) Ives (Charles) Jacob (Gordon) Janacek (Leos) Jolivet (André ) Joplin (Scott) Kalivoda (Jan) Kálmán (Emmerich) Khachaturian (Aram) Knussen (Oliver) Kodaly (Zoltan) Koechlin (Charles) Korngold (Erich) Krenek (Ernst) Krommer (Franz) Kurtág (György) Lalo (Édouard) Lang (David) Lauridsen (Morten) Leclair (Jean-Marie) Lehár (Franz) Leifs (Jón) Leigh (Walter) Leoncavallo (Ruggero) Ligeti (Gyorgy) Liszt (Franz) Loeillet (Jean Baptiste) Lyadov (Anatoly) Mahler (Alma) Mahler (Gustav) Marcello (Alessandro) Martin (Frank) Martinu (Bohuslav) Mascagni (Pietro) Massenet (Jules) Maxwell Davies (Peter) Medtner (Nikolai) Mendelssohn (Felix) Menotti (Gian Carlo) Messiaen (Olivier) Meyerbeer (Giacomo) Milhaud (Darius) Moeran (Ernest) Monteverdi (Claudio) Morricone (Ennio) Moyzes (Alexander) Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus) Mussorgsky (Modest) Nancarrow (Conlon) Nielsen (Carl) Nono (Luigi) Nyman (Michael) Offenbach (Jacques) Orff (Carl) Pachelbel (Johann) Paderewski (Ignacy Jan) Paganini (Niccolò) Paisiello (Giovanni) Palestrina (Giovanni Pierluigi da) Panufnik (Andrzej) Parry (Hubert) Pärt (Arvo) Pasculli (Antonio) Penderecki (Krzysztof) Pepusch (Johann Christoph) Pergolesi (Giovanni) Piazzola (Astor) Poulenc (Francis) Previn (André) Price (Florence) Prokofiev (Sergei) Puccini (Giacomo) Purcell (Henry) Quantz (Johann Joachim) Quilter (Roger) Rachmaninoff (Sergei) Raff (Joachim) Rameau (Jean-Philippe) Ravel (Maurice) Reger (Max) Reich (Steve) Reinecke (Carl) Reizenstein (Franz) Respighi (Ottorino) Richardson (Alan) Riley (Terry) Rimsky-Korsakov (Nikolai) Rodrigo (Joaquín) Rossini (Giacomo) Rota (Nino) Rubbra (Edmund) Saint-Saëns (Camille) Salieri (Antonio) 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(George) Walton (William) Warlock (Peter) Weber (Carl Maria von) Webern (Anton) Weelkes (Thomas) Weill (Kurt) Weir (Judith) Widor (Charles-Marie) Williams (John) Williamson (Malcolm) Wolf (Hugo) Xenakis (Iannis) Ysaÿe (Eugène) Yun (Isang) Zelenka (Jan Dismas) Zemlinsky (Alexander von)

  The Great Composers No one likes to arrive too early at a party. There's no one to talk to and nowhere to hide.

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Anton Panufnik from So You Think You Can Dance Ukraine and Russia