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March 23 in Music History
1599 Birth of composer Thomas Selle.
1687 Funeral in Paris of Italian-French conductor Jean-Baptiste Lully. 1703 Antonio Vivaldi, 25 years old, is ordained as a priest in Venice.
1729 Johann Sebastian Bach visits Coethen and performs funeral music for his ex-employer, Prince Leopold. 1731 FP of Bach's St. Mark Passion performed at Vespers on Good Friday, in Leipzig.
1743 London Premiere of Handel's Messiah at the Covent Garden.
1749 Birth of composer Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen.
1750 Birth of German composer Johann Matthias Sperger.
1783 FP of #Mozart's Haffner Symphony. K.385, in Vienna.
1792 FP Haydn's Surprise Symphony No.94 in G in London.
1795 Birth of composer Leopold Jansa.
1811 Birth of composer Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert. 1826 Birth of Austrian composer and violinist Aloysius Ludwig Minkus in Vienna.  1828 FP of Beethoven's String Quartet in F, Op. 135, posthumously by the Schuppanzigh Quartet, in Vienna.
1834 Birth of German composer, pianist, and organist Julius Reubke, in Hausneindorf.
1835 FP of Auber's "Le cheval de bronze" in Paris.
1837 Birth of composer Joseph Wieniawski.
1844 Birth of French organist and composer Eugene Gigout. 
1864 Birth of composer Hjalmar Borgstrøm.
1865 Birth of Belgian pianist and composer Théo Ysaÿe. 1877 Birth of German baritone Ludwig Hess.
1878 Birth of Viennese theater music composer Franz Schreker. 
1881 Birth of German pianist Egon Petri in Hamburg. 
1881 Death of Russian pianist, conductor, composer Nicolas Rubinstein in Paris.
1886 FP of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony inspired by Byron, in Moscow.  1886 Death of Opera composer Max Wolf. 1887 Birth of American soprano Felice Lyne in Slater, MO. 
1891 Birth of composer Catherine Murphy Urner. 
1893 Birth of Hungarian violinist and composer Franz von Vecsey in Budapest.
1895 Birth of French-born American modern composer Dane Rudhyar, in Paris. 
1895 Birth of Austrian-American soprano Fritzi Jokl in Vienna. 
1899 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Doris Doe in Barharbor, ME 1900 Birth of composer Jose Antonio Calcano. 1906 Birth of composer George Posford.
1912 FP of R. Gliere: Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz in Moscow.
1914 Birth of composer Robert Gross.
1917 Birth of Irish tenor Josef Locke in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
1917 Ernest Bloch conducts the BSO in FP of his Three Hebrew Poems in Boston. 1917 Birth of American violinist Oscar Shumsky in Philadelphia. 1920 Birth of English organist and composer Geoffrey Bush. 1920 Birth of composer Alexander Arutiunian.
1923 FP of Manuel de Falla's opera 'Master Peter's Puppet Show' at the Teatro San Fernando, in Seville.
1925 Birth of British contralto Monica Sinclair, in Evercreech, Somerset.  1927 Birth of French soprano Regine Crespin.
1927 Birth of composer Osvaldo Lacerda.
1932 Birth of Italian soprano Ilva Ligabue in Reggio Emilia.
1933 Birth of English baritone Norman Bailey In Birmingham. 
1937 Birth of composer Heinz Martin Lonquich. 1938 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Gwynn Cornell in Concord, NC.
1939 Birth of Russian composer Boris Tischenko. 1939 FP of Bela Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2. Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg conducting and Zoltán Székely was the soloist.
1944 Birth of English composer Michael Nyman. 1944 FP of Henry Cowell's Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 2 for strings. Henri Nosco and his Concert Orchestra, on WEAF radio, NYC. The first concert performance was at Town Hall, NYC, 8 OCT 1944, with Daniel Saidenburg's Little Symphony.
1945 FP of A. Copland's, with 9 other composers, Variations on a Theme by Eugene Goosens by the Cincinnati Symphony.
1953 FP of Carl Orff's Il Trionfo d'Afrodite at La Scala in Milan. 
1962 FP of Irving Fine's Symphony Boston Symphony, Charles Munch conducting.
1969 FP of Gene Gutchë's Genghis Khan American Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting.
1977 DÉBUT MET of tenor John Brecknock in Mozart's Magic Flute as Tamino. 
1999 FP of James MacMillan's Cumnock Fair for piano and strings. Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Cumnock Academy.
2002 Death of American Opera diva Eileen Farrell. 
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