Music Events:

• 1755 - First performance of Francesco Uttini's Il Re Pastore in Stockholm.


• 1765 - Leopold Mozart and his two children leave London for Kent.


• 1778 - First performance of PAISELLO: "Lo sposo burlato" St Petersburg (1778).


• 1849 - Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. presented its first Doctor of Music Degree to Professor Henry Dielman.


• 1865 - First performance of Offenbach: "Coscoletto, ou Le Lazzarone"


• 1887 - First performance of Gounod's Joan of Arc Mass, at Rheims.


• 1964 - First performance of Alberto Ginastera's opera Don Rodrigo at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.


• 1983 - First performance of Elisabetta Brusa's Favole 'Fables' for chamber orchestra, George Hanson conducting the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra.

Musician Birthdays:

• 1712 - Frederick II of Prussia - Royalty


• 1803 - Adolphe Adam - Composer


• 1880 - Ernest Bloch - Composer


• 1917 - Robert Farnon - Composer


• 1918 - Ruggiero Ricci - Violinist


• 1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano - Singer

Musician Deaths:

• 1739 - Benedetto Marcello
- Composer

• 1846 - Joseph Eybler
- Composer

• 1971 - Alan Rawsthorne
- Composer

• 2000 - Oscar Shumsky
- Violinist