September 29 in Music History
1634 FP of Lawes masque Comus, with text by Milton, at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire. 1641 Franz Tunder becomes organist at Marienkirche in Lubeck. Establishes evening music, Abendmusiken. 1652 Gala concert for Jakob Froberger by his French peers at Convent of the Jacobins in Paris. 1654 Birth of German organist and composer Vincenz Lubeck. 1674 Birth of composer Jacques Hotteterre. 1727 Birth of English composer Dr. Henry Harrington in Somerset. 1739 Handel finishes his Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6, no. 1 in London. 1746 Birth of German organist and composer Ernst Ludwig Gerber. 1753 Birth of composer Johann Gottfried Schicht.
1789 Mozart completes Clarinet Quintet, K. 581, written for clarinetist Anton Stadler, who gave the first public performance in December 1789. 1794 Birth of composer William Michael Rooke.
1841 Birth of Italian conductor and composer Enrico Bevignani in Naples. 1847 FP of Franz Doppler's "Benjowsky" Budapest. 1849 Birth of composer Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal.
1854 Birth of composer Martin Plüddemann.
1855 Birth of Italian composer, pianist, and conductor Michele Esposito. 1858 Birth of composer Leopoldo Mugnone.
1869 Birth of English soprano Hedwig Helbig, in Plauen, Saxony.
1879 Birth of Dutch cellist Willem Willeke in The Hague. 1879 Birth of Cuban-Spanish composer Joaquin Nin Castellano in Havana. 1881 Birth of American bandmaster and march composer William C. White in Centerville UT.
1893 Birth of Russian-American conductor Fabien Sevitzky.
1894 Birth of Italian conductor Franco Capuana in Fano.
1901 Death of Italian mezzo-soprano Adelaide Borghi-Mamo. 1903 Birth of cellist Karl August Andersen.
1903 Death of German soprano Marie Geistinger in Klagenfurt. 1915 Death of German composer Rudi Stephan fighting WW I in Tarnopol. 1915 Death of Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto in Helsinki. 1916 Birth of German tenor Josef Traxel in Mainz.
1916 Birth of composer Minao Shibata
1918 Birth of American composer and conductor Harold Lawrence Walters. 1918 FP of Gustav Holst's The Planets in Queen's Hall, London 1920 Birth of Czech conductor Václav Neuman. 1921 FP of Sigmund Romberg's operetta Blossom Time in NYC. 1927 Birth of Iranian composer Hussein Dehlawi in Teheran. 1930 Birth of Australian conductor Richard Alan Bonynge in Sydney. 1942 Birth of French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty in Arranches
1943 Birth Welsh conductor and composer Alun Francis.
1945 Birth of Greek composer Kyriakos Sfetsas in Amphilochia. 1945 Birth of American soprano Lella Alice Cuberli, in Austin, TX. 1949 Birth of American composer Eric Funk in Deer Lodge, MT. 1949 FP of Arthur Bliss' opera The Olympians in London. 1949 Birth of mezzo-soprano Tuula Nieminen. 1953 Birth of Italian soprano Adelina Scarabelli, in Milan. 1955 Birth of American composer Steve Perillo in The Bronx, NYC. 1968 FP of Henze's Piano Concerto No. 2, in Bielefeld, Germany.
1968 FP of DALLAPICCOLA's "Ulisse" in Berlin. 1969 FP of Dimiti Shostakovich' Symphony No. 14 on poems of Lorca, Apollinaire, Küchelbecker, and Rilke. Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai conducting, with soloists Galina Vishnevskaya and Yevgeny Vladimirov in Leningrad. 1977 Death of Russian composer and conductor Alexander Tcherepnin. 1983 FP of Witold Lutoslawski's Symphony No. 3, in Chicago. 1997 FP of Michael Torke's Overnight Mail for chamber ensemble. Orkest de Volharding, Jurjen Hempel conducting in Carre, Amsterdam.











