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WCLV Daily Almanac

WCLV Daily Almanac

  • August 2
    1774 premiere of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orphée in Paris at the Academie Royale; this is the French version of his Italian opera Orfeo ed…
  • August 1
    1913 Jerome Moross – American composer (d.1983); in addition to works for orchestra, chamber ensembles and musical theater, also orchestrated film scores…
  • November 14
    1854 George Whitefield Chadwick – American composer (d.1931); with Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, a representative of the…
  • November 13
    1854 George Whitefield Chadwick – American composer (d.1931); with Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, a representative of the…
  • November 12
    1833 Alexander Borodin – Russian composer, doctor and chemist (d.1887); best known for his symphonies, his two string quartets, In the Steppes of Central…
  • November 11
    VETERANS DAYNovember 111889 first performance of Richard Strauss's Don Juan by the Orchestra of the Weimar Opera with the composer conducting; the piece…
  • November 10
    1483 Martin Luther – German monk, religious reformer and author of chorale texts and tunes (d.1546); A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (German, Ein feste Burg…
  • November 9
    1879 first performance of Antonín Dvorák's String Sextet Op 48 in Berlin; his first work to be premiered outside Bohemia.1881 first performance of…
  • November 8
    1770 Friedrich Witt – German composer and cellist (d.1836); best known as the composer of the 'Jena' Symphony, once attributed to Beethoven.1785 Friedrich…
  • November 7
    1810 Ferenc Erkel – Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist (d.1893); the father of Hungarian opera, he also composed the music of Himnusz, adopted as…
  • November 6
    1753 Jean-Baptiste Bréval – French cellist and composer (d.1823); wrote the Cello Sonata in C Op 40/1, one of the classics of student cello…
  • November 5
    November 5 ELECTION DAY1494 Hans Sachs – German poet and Meistersinger (Master Singer) (d.1576); the subject of German Romantic operas by Albert Lortzing…
  • November 4
    1783 first performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 'Linz'; the entire symphony was written in four days during a stopover in the Austrian…
  • November 3
    RETURN OF EASTERN STANDARD TIME – SET YOUR CLOCK BACK ONE HOUR1587 Samuel Scheidt baptized – German composer, organist and teacher (d.1654); the first…
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