Today in Classical Music History
| 1805 Beethoven’s opera "Fidelio" first produced at Vienna. |
| 1873 Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and educator, born in Brookline, Mass. (died 1953). On faculty of Columbia University 1910-1942. |
| 1925 Copland’s "Music for the Theatre" is premiered in Boston. |
| 1929 Kenneth Schermerhorn, American conductor, born in Schenectady. |
| 1937 Rene Kollo, German tenor, born in Berlin. |
| 1941 Gary Karr, American virtuoso on the doublebass, born in Los Angeles. Came from a family of musicians which included seven bass players. |
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from Mary Simpson, in memory of the Reverend Howard A. Simpson Jr.
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