Monteverdi gets a new job (and gets mugged)

Synopsis

Music Played in Today's Program

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643) Che dar piu vi poss'io (fr 5th Book of Madrigals) Consort of Musicke; Anthony Rooley, cond. L'oiseau Lyre 410 291

On This Day

Births

• 1750 - Italian opera composer Antonio Salieri, in Legnago (near Verona);

• 1849 - French composer Benjamin Godard, in Paris;

• 1893 - Canadian composer and conductor Sir Ernest MacMillan, in Mimico, Ontario;

Deaths

• 1942 - Austrian composer Erwin Schulhoff, age 48, in a German concentration camp in Wülzburg;

Premieres

• 1820 - Schubert: opera "Die Zauberharfe" (The Magic Harp) in Vienna;

• 1912 - Schreker: opera "Der ferne Klang" (The Distant Sound), in Frankfurt at the Opernhaus;

• 1938 - Britten: Piano Concerto, with the composer as soloist, at a Proms Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood;

• 1956 - Henry Brant: "On the Nature of Things," for spatially grouped instruments and strings, in Bennington, Vt.;

• 1966 - Ulysseys Kay: "Markings" (dedicated to the late Secretary General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld), at the Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester, Michigan;

Others

• 1906 - Gustav Mahler conducts the first of two performances of Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" in Salzburg, Austria, during a Mozart Festival that also included Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" conducted by Richard Strauss.