01-02: Spirit : Seattle 1971 - Ussachevsky | Davidovsky | Arel | Gaburo / CRI 356 - Nat Adderley Work Song 1960 - Erroll Garner Concert By The Sea 1955

Not shown: Johann Georg Weichenberger, Franz Ignaz von Beecke & Staf Gustaf Frans Nees

1726 – Domenico Zipoli (Italian Jesuit missionary & composer, active in Paraguay)
1740 – Johann Georg Weichenberger (Austrian lutenist & composer)
1780 – Johann Ludwig Krebs (German organist & composer, pupil of Bach)
1789 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schauensee (Swiss organist & composer)
1803 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke (German harpsichordist & composer, pupil of Gluck)
1915 – Karl [Károly, Carl] Goldmark (Hungarian composer, music critic & violinist)
1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould (English priest, author, folksong collector & hymn lyricist, "Onward, Christian Soldiers")
1941 – Mischa Levitzki (Ukrainian-born American pianist & composer)
1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis [Θεόφραστος Σακελλαρίδης] (Greek composer & conductor)
1965 – Staf Gustaf Frans Nees (Belgian organist & composer)
1970 – Piotr Rytel (Polish composer)
1974 – Tex Ritter (American country singer, guitarist & actor)
1977 – Erroll Garner (American jazz pianist & composer, "Misty")
1990 – Vladimir Ussachevsky (Manchurian-born American composer of Russian ancestry, known for electronic works)
1993 – Karl Ahrendt (American violinist, conductor & composer)
1997 – Randy California [Wolfe] (American rock guitarist, singer & songwriter, Spirit)
1999 – Rolf Liebermann (Swiss composer)
2000 – Nat Adderley (American jazz cornetist, trumpeter & composer, brother of "Cannonball")
2002 – Armi Aavikko (Finnish singer, Miss Finland 1977)
2003 – Eric Jupp (English-born Australian pianist, composer, arranger & conductor)
2012 – Ian Bargh (Scottish-born Canadian jazz pianist & composer)
2012 – Helmut Müller-Brühl (German conductor, founder of Cologne Chamber Orchestra)

I really like this post!

Too bad about Randy California, though. His final act on this earth was saving his son from drowning. A rock hero, and a hero in real life...

11-24a: Queen Buenos Aires 1981 - Big Joe Turner All the Classic Hits 1938-1952 - Tchaikovsky 5 Cantelli 1950 - Bülent Arel Electronic Works

1615 – Sethus Calvisius (German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer & teacher)
1650 – Manuel Cardoso (Portuguese composer & organist)
1722 – Johann Adam Reincken (Dutch organist & composer, active in Germany)
1842 – Pehr Frigel (Swedish composer)
1944 – Václav Štěpán (Czech pianist, composer, music critic, musicologist & teacher)
1946 – Alfonso Broqua (Uruguayan composer)
1948 – Raoul [von] Koczalski (Polish pianist & composer)
1956 – Guido Cantelli (Italian conductor)
1970 – Evgeny Tikotsky [Яўген Цікоцкі ; Евге́ний Тико́цкий] (Belarusian composer & pianist)
1972 – Hall Overton (American composer, jazz pianist & teacher)
1985 – Big Joe Turner (American blues singer, "Boss of the Blues")
1990 – Bülent Arel (Turkish composer, teacher, painter & sculptor)
1991 – Freddie Mercury [Farrokh Bulsara] (Zanzibar-born British rock singer, songwriter & pianist of Parsi ancestry, Queen)

In this post we remember two awe-inspiring singers, Big Joe Turner and Freddie Mercury, as well as Guido Cantelli, the promising young conductor who might well have become music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 (rather than Leonard Bernstein) had he not been killed in a plane crash in 1956. It's said that the elderly and ailing Arturo Toscanini, who himself passed away only two months later, was somehow sheltered from the news of Cantelli's tragic demise in order to spare him the grief, in his last days, that this artist in whom Toscanini had placed so many hopes for the future had been taken away at such an early age.

Perhaps you'll remember that we already remembered Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso, back when we were remembering a fellow pupil of Manuel Mendes, Duarte Lôbo, and Manuel Mendes himself, as well as Tomás Luis de Victoria, whom we've been remembering all year this year since it marks the 400th anniversary of his death.

Well, here's a strange coincidence: In that same previous post, we also remembered the great Turkish singer Zeki Müren, and via Zeki we touched on another Turkish singer with androgynous qualities, Bülent Ersoy. Well, in today's post, we remember another Turk by the name of Bülent, electronic composer Bülent Arel! I don't know how common a given name Bülent is in Turkey, but it's all making sense today here at YiDM...