Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in the RISM catalog. We are listing not only our RISM composers, but also librettists, performers, dedicatees, or other people who are connected No fewer than three printed editions containing works solely by Michael Altenburg were published in Tragically, this year was also a dramatic turning point in his life.
But first things first. As the son of a village blacksmith, Altenburg first studied theology starting in in Erfurt. Two-hundred and fifty years agoβsometime in September βthe composer Pietro Auletta died in Naples.
Little is known about his youth and education. Even his date of birth is disputed, ranging from April or February in S. Angelo a Scala Avellino to Concrete biographical facts about Auletta are July 18, , marks the th birthday of the French singer, pianist, and composer Pauline Viardot β It was a nice coincidence that just a few months before this anniversary, in November , Pauline Giovanni Animuccia is one of the many people whose musical anniversaries we are marking in He was likely born around in Florence, went to Rome in around , and was chapel master of the Cappella Giulia beginning in at San Pietro.
Animuccia held this position until his At the turn of the 19th century, British perceptions of revolutionary France and the Born in Wismar in , he first studied theology in Rostock and Wittenberg, to It is published here with kind permission. Share your news with RISM and reach an international community of scholars, musicians, librarians, and archivists.
Find out more here. In all other cases, please contact the individual author. Musician Anniversaries in Happy New Year! Michael Altenburg in No fewer than three printed editions containing works solely by Michael Altenburg were published in The th Anniversary of Giovanni Animuccia's Death Giovanni Animuccia is one of the many people whose musical anniversaries we are marking in Browse the news archive by category below or use the search box above.
