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In 1708 John Blow died at about age in London, England. 

In 1733 Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera “Hippolyte et Aricie” premiered in Paris at the Palais Royal Opéra. 

Henry Clay Work

In 1832 Henry Clay Work was born in Middletown, Conn. A printer by trade, he wrote some famous popular songs, including “Grandfather’s Clock” (which led to the naming of a longcase clock), “Father, Come Home,” and “Marching Through Georgia” (which became the football fight song of Princeton University). Two of his pieces of music sold over 1 million copies (“Marching Through Georgia” and “Grandfather’s Clock”). 1

In 1865 Paul Dukas was born in Paris, France. 

In 1880 John Philip Sousa, at age 25, was appointed 17th Leader of the U.S. Marine Band, a post he would hold for 12 years. During this time, the band made its first concert tour, premiered many of Sousa’s most famous marches, and produced some of the first phonograph recordings ever made.

In 1913 Edward Elgar conducted the premier of his symphonic poem “Falstaff” at the Leeds Festival.

In 1924 the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia was opened by a gift of $12.5 million from the American patroness Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who had inherited her fortune from the Curtis Publishing Company. The faculty, providing instruction for 203 students, included Leopold Stokowski and Josef Hofmann heading conducting and piano departments, respectively. Notable graduates include Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem.

In 1931 Sylvano Bussotti was born in Florence, Italy. 

In 1937 Nikolai Miaskovsky’s Symphony No. 18 was premiered in Moscow with Alexander Gauk conducting. 

In 1961 Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 (“The Year 1917”) was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic with Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting. 

In 1964 Ernst Toch died at age 76 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was a Pulitzer Prize winner for his Symphony No. 3. 

In 1967 Roger Sessions’ Symphony No. 7 was premiered in Ann Arbor, Mich., by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Jean Martinon conducting. 

In 1975 Dmitri Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata was premiered in Leningrad by Fyodor Druzhinin (viola) and Mikhail Muntyan (piano). 

In 1979 Roy Harris died at age 81 in Santa Monica, Calif. 

In 1992 Michael Torke’s “Chalk” for string quartet was premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (U.K.), by the Balanescu Quartet. 

In 1998 Charles Ives’ “Emerson Overture” for piano and orchestra (arr. David G. Porter) premiered with soloist Alan Feinberg and the Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi conducting. 

In 2005 John Adams’ opera “Dr. Atomic” was premiered by the San Francisco Opera with Donald Runnicles conducting. 

 

  1. Wikipedia contributors, “Henry Clay Work,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Clay_Work&oldid=682929676 (accessed October 1, 2015).