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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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