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1996 Death - Tristan Keuris, composer, taught composition in Utrecht, Amsterdam, works include 'Saxophone Quartet Concerto', dies in Amsterdam, Holland

1992 Death - Ed Blackwell, U.S. jazz drummer (Quartet), dies

1992 Death - George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies

1990 Event - 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held in Michigan

1983 Death - Claus Adam, composer, cellist, teacher, performed with Julliard String Quartet 1955 - 1974, composed music for a string trio and cello concerto, dies at 65

1979 Death - Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90

1979 Death - Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82

1976 Death - Akio Yashiro, Japanese composer, studied under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Leonid Kreutzer, String Quartet composition won the Eighth Mainichi Music prize in 1957, dies at 46

1974 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad

1974 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet

1973 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich' 14th String Quartet premieres

1973 Event - Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet

1970 Death - Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81

1968 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow

1968 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet

1967 Event - Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands

1966 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad

1966 Event - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet

1964 Event - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow

1964 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th String quartet

1964 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet

1960 Event - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad

1960 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad

1956 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad

1954 Event - Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres

1953 Event - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich' 5th String Quartet

1953 Birthday - Tod Machover, born in Mount Vernon, New York, composer, innovative use of technology in music, designed interactive systems for Yo Yo Ma, Ying Quartet

1953 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich' 4th String Quartet, premieres

1953 Birthday - Wayne Siegel, born in Los Angeles, California, composer, influenced by minimalist Steve Reich, music commissioned by Kronos Quartet, Harry Sparnaay, Safri Duo

1952 Event - Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 5th string quartet

1946 Event - Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres

1946 Birthday - Tristan Keuris, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands, composer, taught composition in Utrecht, Amsterdam, works include 'Saxophone Quartet Concerto'

1945 Event - Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres

1944 Birthday - Joseph Celli, born in America, composer, musician, experimental, contemporary music genres, worked with John Cage, the Kronos Quartet

1941 Event - Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in New York City

1938 Event - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet

1935 Birthday - Aulis Sallinen, born in Finland, composer, contemporary classical music, studied with Joonas Kokkonen, works commissioned by Kronos Quartet

1935 Event - Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Washington D.C.

1933 Death - Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69

1929 Birthday - Akio Yashiro, born in Tokyo, Japanese composer, studied under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Leonid Kreutzer, String Quartet composition won the Eighth Mainichi Music prize in 1957

1927 Birthday - Elvin Jones, born Pontiac, Michigan, musician, jazz drummer, played hard bop, avant-garde jazz, post-bop, member of John Coltrane quartet, appearing in A Love Supreme

1920 Birthday - Robert Mann, born in Portland, Oregon, composer/violinist, String Quartet 1952

1918 Birthday - George Rochberg, Paterson, New Jersey, composer, Concord Quartet

1917 Birthday - Claus Adam, born in America, composer, cellist, teacher, performed with Julliard String Quartet 1955 - 1974, composed music for a string trio and cello concerto

1912 Birthday - Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer, Alexandria Quartet

1908 Birthday - Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist, Budapest String Quartet

1907 Event - Arnold Schonberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna

1903 Event - "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung

1901 Birthday - Naunton Wayne, Wales, actor, Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession

1897 Birthday - Jack Raine, born in London, England, actor, Quartet

1874 Birthday - Arnold Franz Walter Schonberg, Vienna Austria, composer, 2nd Quartet

1864 Birthday - Arthur Collins, singer/comedian, Peerless Quartet

1826 Event - Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna

1785 Event - Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna

1785 Event - Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres













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