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Thursday, February 9
Verdi's "Falstaff" ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825): Falstaff Overture London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, cond. Chandos 9877 & Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Finale, fr Falstaff Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, cond. Telarc 80364 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On composer Giuseppe Verdi and his operas On Falstaff in both Shakespeare and Verdi (PDF) ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1834—German composer Franz Xaver Witt, in Walderbach, Bavaria; 1885—Austrian composer Alban Berg, in Vienna; 1909—German composer Harald Genzmer, in Blumenthal, near Bremen; Deaths: 1740—German composer, organist and teacher Vincent Lübeck, age c. 85, in Hamburg; 1812—German composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister, age 57, in Vienna; 1960—Hungarian composer Ernö (Ernst von) Dohnányi, age 82, in New York City; Premieres: 1722 — ; first documented concert performance of Handel: “Water Music” at the Stationer’s Hall in London (Gregorian date: Feb. 20); Handel’s “Water Music” had been premiered on July 17/28, 1717, during a famous royal barge excursion on the river Thames; 1727 — Bach: Sacred Cantata No. 84 ("Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke") probably performed on Septuagesimae Sunday as part of Bach's third annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig (1725/27); 1728 — Gay & Pepusch: ballad-opera, “The Beggar’s Opera,” in London (Julian date: Jan. 29); 1812 — Beethoven: private premieres of "The Ruins of Athens" and "King Stephen" Overture and Incidental Music, as part of a production at the opening of a new theater in Pest, Hungary (see also Feb. 10 for offical public premiere); 1886 — Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov): opera “Khovanschchina,” posthumously, in St. Petersburg (Gregorian date: Feb. 21); 1893 — Verdi: opera, "Falstaff," in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala; This was Verdi's last opera; 1909 — Albéniz: piano suite, "Iberia," in Paris; 1919 — Chadwick: symphonic poem "Angel of Death" in New York; Other: 1784—Mozart finishes his Piano Concerto No. 14 in Eb, K. 449, and enters it as the first item in his own catalogue of his compositions; The concerto may have been performed by Mozart in Vienna on March 17 that year, and also outside Vienna at the home of Barbara von Ployer, one of Mozart's pupils, for whom the work was written.  More from this week... Buy music played this week...More from previous weeks:  See complete archiveComposers Datebook is produced by American Public Media in association with the American Composers Forum with support from the The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. |
