#Otto Briesemeister

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Today we see the German Tenor and Doctor Otto Briesemeister (1866-1910). He was from 1899-1909 the Loge in Wagner's Ring at the Bayreuther Festspiele and was Doctor in Berlin. You ever have heard from him? Postcard with Autograph from 1904.

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June 16 in Music History

1633 Birth of composer Nathaniel Schnittelbach.

1637 Birth of composer Giovanni Paulo Colonna.

1708 Handel completes Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in Italy.

1710 Handel starts work at the Court of Hanover. Appointed Kapellmeister to Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover the future King George I.

1752 Birth of composer Meingosus Gaelle.

1755 Birth of German mezzo-soprano Louise Dugazon in Berlin. 

1791 FP of Paisello's "La locanda" London.

1804 Death of German composer Johann Adam Hiller in Leipzig. 

1813 Birth of German musicologist and Mozart biographer Otto Jahn in Kiel.

1843 Birth of composer and cellist David Popper. 

1843 Birth of composer Jan Malat.

1849 Birth of British tenor William Shakespeare in Croydon. 

1853 Birth of Swedish organist and composer Emil Sjögren in Stockholm. 

1858 Birth of composer Eugène Ysaÿe.

1863 Birth of composer Paul Antonin Vidal.

1865 Birth of German soprano Martha Leffler Burchard in Berlin. 

1873 Birth of Ukranian soprano Antonia Neshdanova.

1874 Birth of Russian Opera composer Mikhail Ivanov Boretzky in Moscow.

1883 Birth of German tenor Fritz Krauss in Cologne. 

1889 Birth of American soprano Helen Traubel in St Louis. 

1890 A gala program of music and ballet, of music by composer Edward Straus, opened the first Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1894 Birth of Bulgarian tenor Armand Tokatyan.

1896 Birth of Brazilian composer Hekel Tavares in Rio de Janeiro.

1901 Birth of Swiss conductor and composer Conrad Beck in Lohn. 

1902 Birth of Swiss tenor Hugues Cuenod in Corseaux-sur-Vevey. 

1907 Birth of Russian soprano Elena Kruglikova in Poldosk.

1909 Birth of Austrian violinist and conductor Willi Boskovsky. 

1910 Death of tenor Otto Briesemeister.

1915 Birth of tenor Karl Liebl in Schiltberg, nr. Wiesbaden.

1916 FP of Parker's "Cupid and Psyche" New Haven.

1916 Birth of composer Francis Lopez.

1923 Birth of composer Ake Hermanson.

1923 Birth of American soprano Gladys Kuchta in Chicopee, MA.

1923 Birth of Polish conductor and composer Henryk Czyz in Grudziadz.

1923 Birth of Swedish pianist and organist Ake Hermanson in Mollosund. 

1927 Birth of American electronic music composer Bebe Barron.

1927 Birth of Bulgarian composer Simeon Pironkoff in Lom, Bulgaria.

1928 Birth of Rumanian-American conductor Sergiu Comissiona in Buch.

1928 Birth of tenor William McGrath in Medina. 

1929 Birth of Norwegian soprano Edith Thallaug in Oslo.

1929 Birth of American experimental music composer James K. Randall.

1931 Birth of American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski in Detroit. 

1931 Birth of composer Ivo Petric.

1935 Birth of Italian tenor Tullio Pane in Naples. 

1937 FP of American composer and pianist Mark Blitzstein's opera-review The Cradle Will Rock. He was the pianist in this performance in NYC.

1940 Death of Czech composer Vitezslava Kapralova in Montpellier, France. 

1943 Death of Swedish mezzo-soprano Sigrid Onegin in Magliaso.

1944 Death of German soprano Maria Philippi. 

1950 Birth of English administrator Robert St John Wright, chairman of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

1950 FP of V. Persichetti's Divertimento for Band. Composer conducting the Goldman Band in NYC.

1952 Birth of English mezzo-soprano Mary King in Tunbridge Wells. 

1952 Birth of American tenor Jerry Hadley in Princeton, IL. 

1953 Birth of English pianist David Owen Norris.

1958 Death of Mexican composer José Pablo Garcia Moncayo in México City. 

1961 FP of A. Schoenberg's Jacob's Ladder posthumously at 35th Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in Vienna.

1962 Death of bass Ge Smith. 

1964 FP of Krenek's "Der goldene Bock" chamber opera, Hamburg, composer conducting.

1969 Death of baritone Umberto Urbano.

1970 Death of Estonian composer Heino Eller, at age 83, in Tallinn. 

1973 FP of Benjamin Britten's Death In Venice at Aldeburgh. 

1988 Death of German mezzo-soprano Annelies Burgmeister in Berlin. 

1986 Death of French composer, organist  Maurice Duruflé in Paris. 

1987 Death of Hungarian soprano Maria Von Ilosvay. 

1990 Death of English soprano  Dame Eva Turner.

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May 18 in Music History

1616 Birth of German composer and organist Johann Jakob Froberger in Stuttgart.

1733 Death of German composer Georg Böhm in Luneburg.

1737 FP of Handel's opera Berenice at Covent Garden in London.

1759 Birth of composer Charles Duquesnoy.

1779 FP of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride in Paris.

1783 Death of Italian soprano Lucrezia Agujari.

1798 FP of Bruni's "La Rencontre en voyage" Paris.

1812 FP of Rossini's "Demetrio e Polibio" Opera seria.

1818 Death of Italian composer and violinist Maddalena Lombardi.

1819 Birth of composer Julius Hopp.

1830 Birth of Hungarian composer Karl Goldmark.

1836 Birth of composer Isidor Vorobchievici.

1840 FP of Auber's "Zanetta, ou Jouer avec le feu" Paris.

1845 Birth of Austrian conductor Wilhelm #Gerike 

1849 FP of Adam's "Le Toréador" Paris.

1854 Birth of Dutch composer Bernard Zweers in Amsterdam.

1863 Birth of Russian tenor Anton Sekar-Rozhansky.

1866 Birth of German tenor Otto Briesemeister in Arnswalde.

1874 Birth of Italian tenor Antonio Fassino in Plobesi Torinese.

1875 Birth of Italian pianist Guido Alberto Fano in Padua.

1879 FP of Dominiceti's "Il lago delle fate" Milan.

1883 Birth of Uruguayan composer Eduardo Fabini.

1883 Birth of composer Luigi Perrachio.

1886 Birth of composer Ole Windgstad.

1887 FP of Chabrier's Le Roi malgre lui at Opera Comique in Paris.

1896 Death of German bass Gustav Siehr.

1897 FP of Paul Dukas' tone-poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice with the composer conducting in Paris.

1899 Birth of German soprano Margaretha Abler in Wiesbaden.

1901 Birth of French composer Henri Sauguet in Bordeaux.

1901 Birth of American composer Harry Robert Wilson.

1905 Birth of Austrian composer Erich Zeisl in Vienna.

1907 Birth of English pianist Clifford Curzon in London.

1909 Death of Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albeniz.

1910 Death of French composer and opera singer Pauline Viardot-Garcia.

1911 Death of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in Vienna.

1912 Birth of composer Richard Brooks.

1912 FP of Albert Roussel's orchestral triptych Evocations in Paris.

1914 Birth of Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

1917 FP of Eric Satie's Parade. Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe in Paris.

1919 Death of Italian tenor Giuseppe Oxilia in Milan

1921 FP of D'Albert's "Scirocco" Dramstadt.

1922 FP of Igor Stravinsky's opera Renard, Ernest Anseremet conducting at the Paris Opéra.

1924 Birth of German-born French pianist Samson Francois.

1925 FP of Leos Janacek's opera The Sly Little Fox in Prague.

1929 Birth of Canadian composer Roger Matton in Grandby, Quebec.

1932 Birth of Australian composer David Sydney Morgan in Surrey, England.

1939 FP of Douglas Moore's opera The Devil and Daniel Webster, NYC.

1940 FP of Luigi Dallapiccola's opera Volo di Notte in Florence.

1941 Death of soprano Milka Ternina.

1948 Birth of Finnish composer Mikko Heino.

1949 Birth of British composer Rick Wakerman.

1949 FP of Darius Milhaud's Sabbath Morning Service. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco. He conducted.

1950 FP of Rogers' "The Veil" Bloomington, IN.

1950 FP of Lukas Foss's opera The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County text by Mark Twain, in Bloomington, Indiana.

1952 FP of Gotovac's "Mila Gojsalica" music drama, Zagreb.

1959 Birth of Dutch composer Norbert Wissing in Amsterdam.

1962 FP of Cikker's "Vzkrisenie" Praha.

1975 Death of American composer Leroy Anderson in Woodbury CT at age 66.

1978 FP of Henry Cowell's Quartet Romantic for 2 flutes, violin and viola. Paul Dunkel and Susan Palma, flutes; Ralph Schulte, violin; John Graham, viola. 

1980 FP of Einem's "Jesu Hochzeit". 

1981 FP of Joan Tower's Sequoia. American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, in NYC.

1985 Death of Swedish composer Hilding Rosenberg in Stockholm. 

1988 FP of Philip Glass' opera The Fall of the House of Usher based on Poe at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA.

1990 FP of John Harbison's Viola Concerto, soloist Jaime Laredo and the New Jersey Symphony, Hugh Wolff conducting in Bridgewater, NJ.

1993 Death of soprano Maria Gentile.

1996 FP of Philip Glass' opera Les Enfants Terrible. Karen Kamensek conducting Philip Glass Ensemble at the Theatre Casino in Zug, Switzerland.

2001 FP of Kaija Saariaho's Song for Betty (For music patron, Betty Freeman). Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting.

2002 Death of Argentinian composer Jorge Oscar Pickenhayn in San Carlos, Uraguay.

2002 Death of Austrian violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Vienna.

2012 Death of German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

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