June 22
Born On This Day
1763 | Étienne Méhul, French pianist and composer (d. 1817)
1830 | Teodor Leszetycki, Polish pianist, composer and pedagogue (d. 1915)
1901 | Luís Armando Rivera, Dominican composer, pianist and violinist (d. 1986)
1915 | Randolph Hokanson, American pianist (d. 2018)
1917 | Jean Hubeau, French composer, pianist and pedagogue (d. 1992)
Died On This Day
1840 | Josef Javůrek, Polish pianist, composer, conductor of Czech origin (b. 1756)
1888 | Edmund Neupert, Norwegian pianist, composer and pedagogue (b. 1842)
2002 | Conrad Hansen, German pianist (b. 1906)
Today's short history is related to the unusual carriage that Chopin traveled in Dresden. In a letter of November 14, 1830, he wrote to his father, Mikołaj Chopin:
"Again, close to her parents. (...) Nela waited in Warsaw for her husband's return. He went, this time alone, to give concerts in the Soviet Union. He was to play Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Poulenc, whom he liked so much, and Stravinsky - exiled from his country. For the first time since marriage, so many days in separation. She is so used to the fact that everything takes place in a duet."
The most important is the ability to keep proper proportions in the day planner. Johannes Brahms used to say that we should spend as much time playing as reading.
In London, the world’s greatest classical music festival, BBC Proms, is held every summer. Many concerts take place at the famous Royal Albert Hall. When the hall dedicated to the husband of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert was opened in 1871, only 36 events were organized.
