January 2

On This Day

Births:

1905Sir Michael Tippett, British Composer {Listen & Discover his music: here}
1913Gardner Read, American Composer and musical scholar {Listen & Discover his music: here}

Deaths:

1782 – German composer Johann Ludwig Krebs, in Altenburg, age 65.
1915 – Austro-Hungarian composer Karl Goldmark, in Vienna, age 84.

Premieres:

1843 – Wagner’s Opera, “Der fliegende Holländer” (The Flying Dutchman), in Dresden at the Hoftheater, conducted by the composer.
1936 – Morton Gould’s “Chorale and Fugue in Jazz,” by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting.

Others:

1955 – Canadian pianist Glenn Gould plays his first U.S. recital in Washington, D.C.