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1824 - Birth of German pianist, composer, conductor and teacher Carl Reineke in Altona (Hamburg), Germany . He died in Leipzig on March 10, 1910. He was the director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra concerts in Leipzig for three decades, and professor of composition and piano at the Conservatorium.
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1946 - Birth of American pianist André Watts in Nuremberg, Germany. He currently serves as Professor of Music in Piano as the Jack I. and Dora B. Hamlin Endowed Chair in Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. In 2014, he was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.
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1881 - The player piano was patented by John McTammany, Jr. of Cambridge, MA. Shown is a Chase & Baker player piano, Buffalo, NY, USA, circa 1885.
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1835 Birth of Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein in Moscow. Brother of Anton. He died in Paris on March 23, 1881.
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1912 - Premiere of Igor Stravinsky's four-hand piano version of the score for The Rite of Spring . Soloists were Claude Debussy and Stravinsky!
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1910 - Death of Russian composer Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev at age 73 in Petersburg. In the late-1850s and early 1860s Balakirev brought together the composers known as The Russian Five (or the Mighty Handful) that included Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Balakirev w...
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1938 Birth of American composer and pianist William Bolcom in Seattle, Washington. He taught at the University of Michigan for 35 years. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Perhaps the most-played piano composition is...
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1923 - Birth of Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha in Barcelona. She died on September 25, 2009 at the age of 86. Our editor's pick? Her recording of the Schubert little A Major Sonata, Op. 120 (D 664).
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