2002 Timothy Findley, writer, The Piano Man's Daughter, dies at 71
1995 Lavad "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano, dies at 82
1995 Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist, dies at 65
1994 Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80
1994 Bobby Pratt, jazz Trombone/Piano Player, dies at 67
1991 "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 320 performances
1990 "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 320 performances
1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston
1984 William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday
1982 Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress, Piano
1980 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)
1973 Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres
1964 Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
1962 "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric and His Piano peaks at #7
1959 Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1958 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow
1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
1954 Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orch premieres in Haifa
1947 Sam Neill, Northern Ireland, actor, Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano
1946 Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague
1946 Bela Bartoks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Phila
1944 Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres
1944 Mike Piano, rocker, Sandpipers
1934 Huey "Piano" Smith, pianist, Having a Good Time
1932 Glenn Herbert Gould, born in Toronto, Canada, pianist, sued Steinway Piano
1929 Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist
1929 Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24
1924 Huey "Piano" Smith, rocker, Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu
1913 Lavad "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano
1904 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, jazz pianist/singer, Boogie Woogie Piano
1902 Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author, Das Klavichord
1900 Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player
1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite
1882 Artur Schnabel, Lipnik Austria, pianist, Beethoven Piano Sonatas
1881 Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass)
1870 Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
1859 Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1855 Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
1849 Stephen C. Massett opens courthouse using only piano in California
1831 Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74
1831 Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres
1830 Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini
1826 Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
1797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker, Steinway
1796 James S. McLean patents his piano
1788 Camille Pleyel, Austria, piano builder/composer
1769 John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (U.S.)
1757 Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder, Piano method
1752 Sebastien Erard, piano and harp manufacturer
1731 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Ital piano builder, dies at 75
1655 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder
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