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October 21 – Giuseppe Baini, composer and music critic (d. 1844) October 30 – Catterino Cavos, organist, conductor and composer (d. 1840) December 6 – Nicolo Isouard, Maltese composer (died 1818) December 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (d. 1834) December 25 – Antun Sorkočević, writer, composer and diplomat (d. 1841) date ...
Stielers Handatlas 10th Edition Map of India and Asia, printed in Stieler's Atlas Map of Iran and Turan in Qajar dynasty drawn by Adolf Stieler. Stielers Handatlas (after Adolf Stieler, 1775–1836), formally titled Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude (Handy atlas of all parts of the world and of the universe), was the leading German world atlas of the last three ...
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September 24 – The Bolshoi Theatre Company hosts its first annual opera season, with the opening of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St Petersburg. [1] [failed verification] ...
John Stafford Smith (bapt. 30 March 1750 – 21 September 1836) was an English composer, church organist, and early musicologist.He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and a friend of his son Johann Christian Bach.
January 1 – "At length the fleeting Year is o'er", a setting by William Boyce of an ode by William Whitehead, [1] receives its first public performance, at St James's Palace in London, England.
"Composer George Gershwin borrowed W.C. Handy's themes for his own music, including for "Rhapsody in Blue," Gershwin's landmark work. Although the two musicians didn't know each other, Gershwin gave Handy a signed copy of his famous score with a note thanking Handy and acknowledging that his "early 'blues' songs are the forefathers of this work."
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