#Viktor Nessler

[opera-ghosts]

The postcards from 1910 show the atmosphere of a very rarely performed opera by Victor Ernst Nessler " The Trumpeter of Säckingen". It was only performed 11 times at the Metropolitan Opera, and this was the second performance since the US premiere.

The wife of the conductor Anton Seidl stood on the stage, Mrs. Auguste Seidl-Kraus.

[newbromance-blog]

And here is a drawing I did last night; to finally get this blog up to date!

Not super proud with it, but when I look back at where I was three weeks ago I feel rather happy with how I’m progressing.

I need to stop drawing statues though!

[todayclassical]

January 28 in Music History

1627 Birth of composer Alfonso Marsh. 1645 Birth of German composer Gottfried Vopelius near Zitlau.  1691 Birth of German composer and organist Johann Balthasar König.  1693 Birth of Austrian organist and composer Gregor Joseph Werner in Donau.  1722 Birth of German composer Johann Ernst Bach.  1725 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 92 Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn on Septuagesimae Sunday following Epiphany, was part of Bach's second annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1724-25.

1742 Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift; author of Gulliver's Travels, objects to the cathedral singers performing Handel's works while the composer is in that city.

1754 Death of Danish lawyer and writer Ludwig Holberg at 69.  1756 Birth of composer Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth. 1757 Birth of composer Antonio Bartolomeo Brun. 1768 Death of English organist and composer John Wainwright dies at age 44. 

1781 Birth of castrato Giovanni Battista Vellutti Castrato.

1791 Birth of French opera composer Louis Ferdinand Joseph Herold. 1798 Death of German composer Christian Gottlob Neefe in Dessau. 1806 FP of Etienne Mehul's opera Les Deux Aveugles in Paris.

1812 Birth of soprano Marie Cornelie Falcon in Paris

1813 Death of Bohemian composer Jan Joseph Rösler at age 45.

1817 Death of composer Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen at age 55. 1828 FP of Franz Schubert's Piano Trio in Bb, Op. 99 D. 898. Ignaz Schuppanzigh, violin, Josef Linke, cello, and Carl Maria von Bocklet, piano.

1830 FP of Auber's opera Fra Diavalo at Opera Comique, Paris. 1832 Birth of composer Franz Wüllner. 

1841 Birth of composer Viktor Ernst Nessler.

1861 Birth of singing coach Isadora Luckstone in Baltimore, 

1868 Birth of Scottish composer Frederic Archibald Lamond in Glasgow. 1868 Birth of Argentinian composer Julian Aguirre. 1869 Death of French composer Prudent-Louis Aubrey du Boulley at age 72. 1873 Death of composer Henry Hugo Pierson at 57. 

1875 Birth of tenor Leon Laffitte in Saint-Genies.

1875 Birth of Mexican composer, conductor and violinist Julian Antonio Carillo Trujillo in Ahualulco, Mexico.  1876 FP of P. I. Tchaikovsky's Serenade mélancolique for violin and orchestra, in Moscow.

1878 Birth of German composer Walter Kollo.

1885 Birth of baritone Jean Athanasiou in Bucharest.   

1887 Birth of Polish-American pianist Artur Rubinstein. 1887 Birth of American composer Lily Theresa Strickland in Anderson, SC.  1891 Birth of Czech conductor and composer Karel Boleslav Jirak in Prague.  1893 Birth of American pianist and composer Elliot Griffos in Boston. 

1894 Birth of soprano Laura Pasini in Varese. 

1896 Death of English organist, conductor and composer Joseph Barnby.

1897 Birth of soprano Fidelia Campigna in Almeria, Andalusia.

1898 Birth of Italian composer Vittorio Rieti in Egypt.  1898 Death of Romanian opera composer Alexandru Flechtenmacher at 74.  1900 Birth of English pianist and composer Michael Dewar Head.

1903 Birth of Ukraniam composer Yuly Sergueievitch Meytus in Elisavetgrad. 

1903 Death of French composer Augusta Mary Anne Holmes at age 55 in Paris.  1903 Death of French composer Jean Robert Planquette at age 54 in Paris.  1904 Tenor Enrico Caruso signs his first recording contract with Victor Records. 1907 Birth of Swiss pianist and composer Constantin Regamey in Kiev.  1910 Death of Spanish composer Jose Garcia Robles at 74. 1913 Birth of Dutch composer Jan Masseus in Rotterdam. 1915 FP of Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio in a. Gabriel Wilaume, violin; Louis Feuillard, cello and Alfredo Casella, piano; in Paris.

1916 FP of Enrique Granados' opera Goyescas. MET Opera, NYC.

1916 Birth of English musicologist and composer Peter Crossley-Holland in London.

1918 Birth of soprano Frances Yeend in Vancouver, Washington. 

1923 Birth of tenor Paul Asciak in Valetta, Malta.

1926 Wedding of composer Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. 1927 FP of Aaron Copland's Piano Concerto. Boston Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, Copland was soloist.

1929 Death of Dutch composer Theodorus Hendricus Hubertus Verhey in Rotterdam. 

1930 Death of soprano Emmy Destinn.

1930 Birth of Spanish composer Luis de Pablo in Bilbao.

1932 Death of German-American composer and organist Franz Xavier Arens at 75 in Los Angeles. 

1931 Birth of bass Ezio Flagello in New York. 

1932 Death of composer Irene Wieniawska in London. aka Poldowski and Irene Wieniawska Paul. 

1933 Birth of bass Spiro Malas in Baltimore. 

1933 Death of tenor Adolf Krossing. 

1935 Birth of Russian composer Leonid Grabovsky in Kiev. 1935 Death of Russian composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov at age 75, in Moscow.  1936 Birth of English composer Lydia Aylott in Finnigham.

1936 Birth of American composer Robert Suderburg. 1941 FP of Aaron Copland's Quiet City. Little Symphony conducted by Daniel Saidenberg at Town Hall, NYC. From incidental music, he scored for Irwin Shaw's play produced by the Group Theater, 1939 in NYC.

1942 Death of Spanish composer Pablo Luna  Carne at 61. 

1943 Birth of soprano Malvina Major in Hamilton N Z. 

1944 Death of mezzo-soprano Maartje Offers. 

1944 Birth of British avant-garde composer John Taverner in London. 1944 FP of Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah. Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by the composer, mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, PA.

1947 Death of Venezuelan-French conductor and composer Reynaldo Hahn at age 72 in Paris.  1949 Death of Swedish composer Gustav Lazarus Nordqvist at 62. 1952 Death of tenor Anton Sekar-Rozhansky. 

1954 Death of bass Allen Hinckley. 

1956 Birth of American composer Richard Danielpour in NYC. 

1959 Death of Austrian conductor and composer Viktor Joseph Keldorfer at 85 in Vienna.

1960 Death of tenor Ettore Parmeggiani. 

1960 Death of Austrian-American pianist-composer Jacques de Menasce at 54 in Gstaad, Switzerland. 

1965 Death of Belgian composer Jef van Durme at 57 in Brussels.  1967 Death of baritone Greek Evans. 

1971 William Bolcom finishes Poltergeist Rag which he dedicated to Teresa Sterne, former concert pianist and producer for Nonesuch Records. Apparently written in a converted garage next to a graveyard in Newburgh, N.Y.

1972 FP of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha. The orchestration by T.J. Anderson, in Atlanta.

1973 Death of singing coach Sergei Radamsky. 

1981 Death of tenor Agostino Lazzari. 

1990 FP of Joan Tower's Flute Concerto. Carol Wincenc and the American Composers Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, conducting, at Carnegie Hall in NYC.

1996 Fire destroys Venice Opera House.

2000 FP of André Previn's Diversions. Previn conducting Vienna Philharmonic in Salzburg, Austria

[finita-la-commedia]

May God protect thee, it would have been so nice. May God protect thee it simply wasn't to be

from once famous sentimental late 19th century opera "Der Trompeter von Säckingen" (The Trumpeter of Säckingen) by Viktor Nessler.