Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight" Sonata
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Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight" Sonata with musical samples - well worth listening to! http://www.slate.com/id/2245891/
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on March 9 in classical music history * 1706 Burial of German composer Johann Pachelbel, age 52, in Nuremberg. * 1737 Birth of Bohemian composer Josef Mysliveczek, in Ober-Sarka. Friend and colleague of Mozart. * 1748 First Performance of Handel's oratorio Joshua at the Covent Garden, London. It may have included the premiere of Handel's Concerto a due cori No. 1 as well (Gregorian date 20 MAR). * 1740 First Performance of Handel's oratorio L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, and Organ Concerto in Bb, Op. 7, no. 1, in London (Julian date: 27 FEB) * 1831 Paris debut of Italian violinist Nicolo Paganini. Composers attending were Meyerbeer, Cherubini, Halvéy and Franz Liszt. * 1839 Birth of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (Gregorian date: 21 MAR). * 1842 First Performance of Verdi's opera Nabucco in at the Teatro alla Scala, in Milan. * 1844 First Performance of Verdi's opera Ernani in at the Teatro La Fenice, in Venice. * 1849 First Performance of Otto Nicolai's opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor basaed on Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Königliches Opernhaus, in Berlin. * 1868 First Performance of Thomas' opera Hamlet at the Paris Opéra. * 1877 First Performance of Tchaikovsky's symphonic-fantasy Fancesca da Rimini in Moscow (Julian date: 25 FEB) * 1907 Birth of composer Henry Leland CLARKE. * 1910 Birth of American composer Samuel Barber, in West Chester, Pa. * 1924 First Performance of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 5, first version, in Paris, by the composer. The revised version premiered in Alma-Ata, USSR on 5 FEB 1954, by Anatoli Vedernikov. * 1930 First Performance of Kurt Weill's opera Die Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, at the Neues Theater in Leipzig. * 1933 Birth of composer William Francis McBETH. * 1941 First Performance of Henry Cowell's Symphony No. 2 Antropos, in Brooklyn. * 1947 Birth of composer Zusaan Kali FASTEAU. * 1949 Birth of composer Kalevi AHO. * 1950 Birth of composer Bill ZACCAGNI * 1951 First Performance of A. Honegger's Symphony No. 5 Di tre re, by the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch conducting. * 1980 Birth of composer Anna CLYNE. * 1980 First Performance of Earle Brown's Caldar Piece for percussionists and mobile, in Valencia, CA. * 1982 First Performance of L. Berio's opera La vera storia The True Story at the Teatro alla Scala, in Milan. * 1999 Death of composer Harry Somers. |