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January 10 in Music History

1676 FP of Lully's opera Atys at St. Germain-en-Laye.

1683 Birth of Italian composer Gasparo Visconti.

1701 Birth of composer Johann Caspar Simon.

1710 FP of G. F. Handel's music in London. The orchestral selections from his opera Rodrigo as incidental music of a revival of Ben Jonson's play The Alchymist.

1713 FP of Handel's opera Teseoin London. It closes after the second performance and the manager steals the box office receipts, leaving cast and composer unpaid.

1760 Birth of German composer Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg in suburban Mergentheim.

1766 Birth of French composer Louis Massonneau in Kassel.

1780 Death of Italian organist and composer Francesco Antonio Vallotti at 82.

1792 Death of French composer Jean-Louis Laruette at 60.

1800 Death of composer, organist and teacher Johan Wikmanson at 46.

1816 Death of tenor Giovanni Valesi

1833 Death of composer Antonio da Silva Leite at 73.

1854 Birth of composer Peter Gast.

1884 FP of second version of G. Verdi's opera Don Carlo, in 4 acts in Italian, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

1876 Death of Belgian musicologist and writer Charles E. H. de Coussemaker at 70.

1884 Birth of American composer James Philip Dunn.

1886 Birth of composer Jose Antonio de Donostia.

1886 Birth of baritone Emiel Van Bosch

1889 Death of Norwegian composer Martin Andreas Udbye at 68, in Trondheim.

1892 Death of German composer Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn.

1892 Death of tenor Jean Baptiste Chollet

1895 Death of French composer Benjamin Godard in Cannes at 45.

1897 Birth of composer Albert Moeschinger.

1903 Birth of French conductor Jean Morel in Abbeville France.

1903 Birth of tenor Karl Mikorey.

1904 Birth of Spanish composer Jesus Garcia Leoz.

1904 Death of soprano Antoinette Sterling.

1906 Death of baritone Otto Schelper.

1909 Birth of composer Rudolf Kubin.

1910 Birth of French conductor Jean Martinon in Lyons.

1911 Birth of English violinist and teacher Sidney Griller.

1915 Birth of conductor Dean Dixon in Zug Switzerland.

1921 Birth of tenor David Poleri.

1923 Birth of soprano Margherita Casals

1924 Birth of soprano Marilyn Cotlow.

1926 Birth of baritone Derek Hammond-Stroud.

1931 FP of Charles Ives' Three Places in New England in NYC.

1931 Death of German composer Oscar Fetrás.

1933 Birth of Japanese composer Akira Miyoshi.

1934 Birth of American-Canadian composer Wallace Taft Berry in La Crosse, WI.

1934 FP of Franz Schmidt's Symphony No. 4. Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Oswald Kabasta conducting.

1935 Birth of American baritone Sherrill Milnes in Downer's Grove IL.

1935 Birth of composer Georg Katzer in Habelschwerdt, Silesia.

1941 Death of English composer Frank Bridge in Eastbourne, at age 61.

1947 Birth of American bass-baritone James Morris in Baltimore.

1948 Birth of Latvian cellist Mischa Maisky in Riga.

1951 Birth of American tenor Rockwell Blake.

1951 Death of Argentinian composer Athos Palma at 59

1954 Death of Austrian-German composer Fred Raymond at 53.

1955 Birth of American composer Charles Norman Mason.

1960 FP of Igor Stravinsky's Movements. Pianist Margit Weber during a Stravinsky Festival, with the composer conducting at Town Hall in NYC.

1961 Birth of American violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, in Rome.

1963 Death of Polish composer Tadeusz Szeligowski at 66.

1966 Death of tenor William Heseltine

1967 Death of Czech composer Vilem Petrzelka at 77.

1968 Death of Argentine composer Josue Teofilo Wilkes at age 85.

1969 Death of Australian baritone John Brownlee

1972 Death of Norwegian composer Sverre Jordan, at age 82 in Bergen.

1974 Death of German composer Martin Scherber in Nuremberg.

1978 Death of American composer Don Gillis at 65 in Columbia, South Carolina.

1982 Death of composer of Yiddish art-songs, Lazar Weiner at age 84.

1985 Death of tenor Beno Blachut.

1987 FP of Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1, dedicated to Marin Alsop. Houston Symphony, Hans Vonk conducting.

1994 Death of soprano Irene Jessner.

1997 Death of Italian tenor Alvinio Misciano.

1998 FP of Alan Jay Kernis' String Quartet No. 2. Lark Quartet performing at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC. Won 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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