Composers

Under the old Julian calendar in use in Czarist Russia, on today’s date in 1861, the Romantic composer Anton Arensky was born in Novgorod.

Monteverdi’s “The Coronation of Poppea” had its first full professional staging at the Glyndebourne Festival in England on today’s date in 1962.

Franco Leoni (1864 – 1937) L'Oracolo Tito Gobbi, baritone; National Philharmonic; Richard Bonynge, cond. London OSA-12107 (LP)

Arnold Schoenberg’s “Theme and Variations” was given its first performance on today’s date in 1946 by the Goldman Band.

Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony was premiered on this date in 1912.

On June 25th, 1840, there would be a gala concert in Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church featuring the church choir and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performing a new symphony by Felix Mendelssohn.

June 24, 1901, is the birth date of Harry Partch, an Oakland native. Another Californian, born on this date in 1935, is Colfax native Terry Riley.

Today we remember the Russian composer Reinhold Glière, who died in Moscow on today’s date in 1956.

On today’s date in 1871, Theodore Thomas conducted the first American performance of “Kaiser March,” a brand-new work by Richard Wagner.

In 2007, the American composer Sean Hickey was commissioned by Russian cellist Dmitry Kouzov to write a new concerto, which received its premiere performance on today’s date two years later, in 2009.