Music year 1933

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Music year 1933

Events

Instrumental music

Ottorino Respighi : Concerto a cinque for oboe , trumpet, violin, double bass, piano and string ensemble
Paul Graener : Marien-Cantata (op. 99; 1933) for solos, choir and orchestra
Maurice Ravel : Don Quichotte à Dulcinée , song cycle for baritone and orchestra based on texts by Paul Morand
Ralph Vaughan Williams : The Running Set (orchestral work)
Gustav Holst : Lyric Movement
Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew : Suite from Am Dnjepr , op. 51; Symphonic Singing , op. 57, unpublished.

Musical theater

January 4th : World premiere of the operetta The Men Are Times So by Walter Kollo at the Schillertheater Berlin.
January 20th : World premiere of George Gershwin's musical Pardon My English at the Majestic Theater in New York City.

February 3 : World premiere of the opera Gevatterin Tod by Rudolf Karel at the State Theater in Brno (composed in 1932).

May 3rd : Premiere of the French version and new version of the operetta Frasquita by Franz Lehár at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

May 20 : World premiere of Howard Hansen's opera Merry Mount in Ann Arbor
May 24th : The first performance of the musical comedy Beauberdes Fräulein by Ralph Benatzky takes place at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. The model for this is the French Schwank La petite Chocolatière by Paul Gavaults .
June 7th : At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris , the ballet with song The Seven Deadly Sins by Bertolt Brecht (libretto), Kurt Weill (music) and George Balanchine (choreography) with Lotte Lenya and Tilly Losch in the leading roles.
July 1st : Premiere of the opera Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Dresden State Opera.
September 30 : The world premiere of the operetta Two Hearts in Three-Four Time by Robert Stolz takes place in Zurich. The libretto is by Paul Knepler , Ignaz Michael Welleminsky and Robert Gilbert . It is based on the script for the film of the same name from 1930 by Walter Reisch and Franz Schulz .
October 21 : World premiere of George Gershwin's musical Let 'Em Eat Cake at the Imperial Theater in New York City.

December 23 : The operetta Clivia by Nico Dostal based on the libretto by Charles Amberg is premiered at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin . It is considered to be the composer's most successful work.

Further stage work premieres in 1933:

Walter Kollo : Better rich but happy (operetta) (WP Komödienhaus, Berlin)
Eduard Künneke : The Alluring Flame (Singspiel)
Ralph Benatzky : Deux sous de fleurs (operetta) premiered in Paris
Werner Richard Heymann : Lady No. 1 right (operetta) premiered in Vienna

Film music

Eduard Künneke: Three blue boys - one blonde girl ; There is only one love ; The page from the Dalmasse Hotel ; Happy trip ; The young Dessauer's great love ; Tambour battant
Robert Stolz: What women dream
Ralph Benatzky: The flower of Hawaii not to be confused with the earlier operetta of the same name by Paul Abraham .
Franz Grothe : Salon Dora Green ; Not afraid of love ; Morality and love
Werner Richard Heymann : Season in Cairo

Born

January February

January 10 : Akira Miyoshi , Japanese composer († 2013 )
January 17th : Dalida , French singer and actress († 1987 )
January 20 : Earl Grant , American singer and guitarist († 1970 )
January 23 : Chita Rivera , American actress and dancer
January 23 : Joel Spiegelman , American composer
January 24th : Johannes Fischer , German church musician and composer († 2005 )
January 26 : Rubens Bassini , Brazilian percussionist († 1985 )
January 26th : Hans Petermandl , Austrian pianist
January 28 : Dieter Wellmann , German church musician and composer
January 29th : Sacha Distel , French chansonnier and composer († 2004 )

0February 1 : Buddhadev Das Gupta , Indian musician († 2018 )
0February 1st : Sadao Watanabe , Japanese jazz saxophonist
0February 2 : Orlando López , Cuban musician († 2009 )
0February 3 : Varetta Dillard , American rhythm and blues singer († 1993 )
0February 3 : John Edmondson , American composer († 2016 )
0February 3 : John Handy , American jazz saxophonist
0February 8 : Elly Ameling , Dutch soprano

Yoko Ono 1969

February 18 : Yoko Ono , Japanese-American artist, filmmaker, experimental composer and singer
February 20 : Charles Kynard , American church organist and Hammond organ player († 1979 )
February 21 : Nina Simone , jazz and blues singer, pianist and songwriter († 2003 )
February 22nd : Peter Rohland , German songwriter and singer († 1966 )
February 26th : María Victoria , Mexican singer
February 27 : Marek Mietelski , Polish pianist and music teacher

March April

0March 1st : István Láng , Hungarian composer
0March 3 : Marco Antonio Muñiz , Mexican singer
0March 4th : Ann Burton , Dutch jazz singer († 1989 )
0March 9 : William Francis McBeth , American composer and conductor († 2012 )
March 11 : Roman Suchecki , Polish cellist and music teacher († 2003 )
March 13 : Mike Stoller , American songwriter and record producer
March 14 : Quincy Jones , American music, television, and film producer and musician
March 16 : Jörg Ewald Dähler , Swiss conductor, harpsichordist and composer († 2018 )
March 31 : Anita Carter , American country and folk singer († 1999 )

April 12 : Montserrat Caballé , Spanish singer (soprano) († 2018 )
April 14 : Kurt Huemer , Austrian singer and actor († 2005 )
April 14th : Elenita Santos , Dominican singer
April 14 : Morton Subotnick , American avant-garde musician and composer
April 15 : Roy Clark , American country musician († 2018 )
April 17th : Loris Chobanian , Armenian-American composer, conductor, guitarist and music teacher
April 24 : Francesco Valdambrini , Italian composer and music teacher († 2007 )
April 25 : Jerry Leiber , music producer († 2011 )
April 29th : Rod McKuen , American singer-songwriter, poet and composer († 2015 )
April 29 : Willie Nelson , American country singer and songwriter
April 30th : Reinhold Johannes Buhl , German musician

May June

0May 1 : Wayne Williams , American rockabilly musician
0May 3 : James Brown , American musician, dancer and singer, Godfather of Soul († 2006 )
0May 7 : Martin Metz , Romanian-German church musician and composer († 2003 )
0May 7th : Nexhmije Pagarusha , Albanian singer († 2020 )
0May 8 : Elio Boncompagni , Italian orchestra leader († 2019 )
May 11th : Aníbal de Peña , Dominican singer, pianist and composer
May 15 : Ronald Roseman , American oboist, music teacher and composer († 2000 )
May 18 : Raúl Iglesias , Cuban pianist and music teacher († 2004 )
May 19 : Antón García Abril , Spanish composer and music teacher
May 21 : Maurice André , French trumpeter († 2012 )
May 25th : Amanda Guerreño , Argentine composer
May 29 : Helmuth Rilling , German conductor and teacher

0June 4th : Amand Schwantge , German horn player († 2006 )
June 16 : George McCormick , American country musician († 2018 )
June 22nd : Libor Pešek , Czech conductor
June 26 : Claudio Abbado , Italian conductor († 2014 )

July August

0July 2 : David Lewin , American music theorist, musicologist, pianist and composer († 2003 )
0July 4th : Józef Stompel , Polish pianist and music teacher
0July 9 : José Libertella , Italian-French bandoneon player, composer and arranger († 2004 )
July 10 : Jumpin 'Gene Simmons , American country, rockabilly and rock' n 'roll musician († 2006 )
July 15 : Julian Bream , British guitarist († 2020 )
July 16 : Gerd Hammes , German composer and trombonist
July 17th : Ben Riley , American jazz drummer († 2017 )
July 20 : José Vicente Asuar , Chilean composer († 2017 )
July 20 : Buddy Knox , American singer and songwriter († 1999 )

0August 1st : Gilles Boizard , French composer († 1987 )
0August 4th : Sonny Simmons , American jazz musician
August 11 : Tamás Vásáry , Hungarian pianist and music teacher
August 21 : Janet Baker , English mezzo-soprano
August 21 : Zbigniew Bujarski , Polish composer († 2018 )
August 25 : Roberto De Simone , Italian composer, theater man, author
August 25 : Wayne Shorter , American jazz saxophonist and composer
August 26 : Ida Gotkovsky , French composer and pianist

September October

0September 1 : Conway Twitty , American singer († 1993 )
0September 3 : Roland Kayn , German composer († 2011 )
0September 6 : Buzz Busby , American rockabilly and bluegrass musician († 2003 )
0September 8th : Asha Bhosle , Indian playback singer
0September 8 : Lea Foli , Canadian violinist and music educator
0September 8 : Eric Salzman , American composer († 2017 )
September 10 : Hanna Aroni , Israeli singer
September 12 : Jewel Akens , American singer († 2013 )
September 14th : Vinicio Franco , Dominican singer
September 15 : Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Spanish conductor († 2014 )
September 18 : Manfred Niehaus , German composer, violist and conductor († 2013 )
September 18 : Jimmie Rodgers , American pop music singer
September 25th : Maxl Graf , German actor and singer of popular music († 1996 )
September 25 : Ian Tyson , Canadian country and folk singer
September 25 : Erik Darling , American singer and musician († 2008 )
September 26 : Rudolf Scholz , Austrian organist and music teacher († 2012 )
September 30th : Don Willis , American rockabilly musician († 2006 )

0October 1st : Pozzi Escot , American composer
0October 5 : Billy Lee Riley , American musician and singer († 2009 )
0October 7 : Jerry H. Bilik , American composer and professor
October 17 : Campbell Trowsdale , Canadian violinist and music educator
October 18 : Jacques Charpentier , French composer and organist († 2017 )
October 20th : Hilda Herrera , Argentine pianist, composer and music teacher
October 24 : Earl Anderza , American alto saxophonist († 1982 )
October 27 : Floyd Cramer , American pianist and composer, representative of country music († 1997 )

November December

0November 3rd : John Barry , British film composer († 2011 )
November 10 : Bobby Rush , American blues musician
November 12 : Wolfgang Schlüter , German jazz musician († 2018 )
November 16 : Lee Burswold , American composer, pianist and music teacher († 2017 )
November 18 : Charlotte Moorman , American musician († 1991 )
November 19 : Siegfried Behrend , German guitarist and composer († 1990 )
November 23 : Clémence DesRochers , Canadian actress, singer-songwriter and writer
November 23 : Krzysztof Penderecki , Polish composer

0December 1 : Jimmy Lyons , American jazz saxophonist († 1986 )
0December 1 : Lou Rawls , American jazz and soul singer († 2006 )
0December 5 : Bernard van Beurden , Dutch composer and musician († 2016 )
0December 6 : Henryk Mikołaj Górecki , Polish composer († 2010 )
December 12th : Manu Dibango , Cameroonian saxophonist, vibraphonist and pianist († 2020 )
December 13 : Borah Bergman , American jazz pianist († 2012 )
December 14th : Leo Wright , American jazz clarinetist († 1991 )
December 16 : Johnny Hammond Smith , American jazz musician († 1997 )
December 18 : Lonnie Brooks , American blues guitarist († 2017 )
December 26 : Billy Bean , American jazz guitarist († 2012 )
December 31 : Elisa Gabbai , Israeli singer († 2010 )

Exact date of birth unknown

Nelly Ben-Or , Polish-Jewish pianist and music teacher
Pedro Ignacio Calderón , Argentine conductor
Pepi Scherfler , Austrian musician, arranger and composer († 2010 )
Raymond Wentworth , American singer and composer

Died

Date of death secured

January 9th : Giuseppe Terrabugio , Italian organist, composer and church musician (* 1842 )
January 15 : Eugen Robert Weiss , German chamber singer & academy professor (* 1863 )
January 25 : Honoré Vaillancourt , Canadian singer (baritone) (* 1892 )
February 11 : Jean Paul Ertel , German composer (* 1865 )

March 4 : Blind Willie Walker , American blues guitarist and singer (* 1896 )
March 13 : Tito Ricordi , Italian music publisher (* 1865 )
March 14th : Anny Ahlers , German singer and actress (* 1907 )
March 20 : Jefferson De Angelis , American actor and singer (* 1859 )

April 9 : Sigfrid Karg-Elert , German composer and music theorist (* 1877 )
April 12 : Lola Artot de Padilla , French-Spanish soprano (* 1876 )

May 22 : Emil Oberhoffer , American conductor, composer and music teacher (* 1867 )

Jimmie Rodgers

May 26 : Jimmie Rodgers , American blues and country musician (* 1897 )

July 15 : Freddie Keppard , American cornet player (* 1890 )
July 16 : Jean Blake Coulthard , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1882 )
July 23 : Louis Abbiate , French composer and cellist (* 1866 )

August 13 : Paul Hillemacher , French composer and pianist (* 1852 )
August 28 : Georgi Konjus , Russian composer (* 1862 )

October 6 : Sachari Paliaschwili , Georgian composer (* 1871 )
October 16 : Maurice Renaud , French singer (* 1861 )
October 27 : Julius Klengel , German cellist (* 1859 )

December 6th : Auguste Chapuis , French composer, organist and music teacher (* 1858 )
December 16 : Everett Ellsworth Truette , American organist, composer, music publisher and author (* 1861 )

Exact date of death unknown

William Boosey , English music organizer and publisher (* 1864 )

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