March 6 Dateline

Birthdays

1475 - Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known as Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance period born in the Republic of Florence. He exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. (Michelangelo Matter & Spirit, uploaded by Alvin T. Abrea. Accessed March 6, 2015. Michelangelo Biography, uploaded by Biographics. Accessed March 6, 2019.)

1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, (6th of March is actually the date of his baptism, but often cited as his date of birth. At the time, it was usual for a baptism to take place within 3 days of birth and in Paris, with easy access to a priest, it would have been possible that it happened on the same day. However, the actual date remains unknown.), French Writer and Playwright. An innovative writer, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th Today he is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most noted drama Cyrano de Bergerac, which, although it includes elements of his life, also contains invention and myth. Since the 1970s, there has been a resurgence in the study of Cyrano, demonstrated in the abundance of theses, essays, articles and biographies published in France and elsewhere.

1754 - Josepha Duschek, Czech soprano. She was an outstanding soprano of the Classical era, a contemorary and friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote a few works for her to sing. Her name is most often given in its German version as above. In Czech her name was Josefína Dušková or Josepha Duschkova. She was a pupil of Frantisek Xavier Dusek, and married him on Oct 21, 1776. The Duseks occasionally visited Salzburg, the hometown of Josef's mother. In spring 1786 Mozart accompanied her at aprivate concert before the Viennese court, and the following year he wrote her the recitative and aria "Bella mia fiamma, addio" K528. In 1789 she sang at Mozart's concerts inDresden and Leipzig. She died January 8, 1824. (Biblio: M. Flothius:'Welche Arien sang Josepha Duschek am 26.Apr 1791?', MISM, xxxvii (1989), 81-2.)

1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett), English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including the American poets Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. She is remembered for such poems as "How Do I Love Thee?" (Sonnet 43, 1845) and Aurora Leigh (1856).

1926 - H.C. Robbins Landon (Howard Chandler Robbins Landon), American musicologist, journalist, historian and broadcaster, best known for his work in rediscovering huge neglected music by Joseph Haydn and in correcting misunderstandings about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He co-founded the Haydn Society in 1949. He published his five-volume study, Haydn: Chronicle and Works. He and the society also recorded neglected works of Mozart, publishing five popular books about Mozart, and dispelling myths about the composer's life. He had written 28 books by 1996. Landon wrote regularly for music magazines and newspapers, especially the longest-established London paper, The Times. He was a popular broadcaster for the BBC on radio and television and was praised for his ability to enthuse general audiences with his chosen subject. From the 1970s, he was a sought-after lecturer and held appointments with colleges.

1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literataure. He is best known for his novels,  such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). (Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Literary Giant. Uploaded by Al Jazeera English. Accessed March 6, 2016.)

1930 - Lorin Maazel, (born Lorin Varencove Maazel), American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by 1960 but, by comparison, his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. However, he would later be appointed music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among other posts. Maazel was well-regarded in baton technique and possessed a photographic memory for scores. Described as mercurial and forbidding in rehearsal, he mellowed in old age. (New Year's Concert 2005. Lorin Maazel conducts Wiener Philharmoniker / Vienna Philharmonic. Accessed March 4, 2018.)

1944 - Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa ( born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron), New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Te Kanawa had three top 40 albums in Australia in the mid-1980s. She is most famous for "O mio babbino" from Puccini's opera Gianni Schicchi. She has received accolades, singing a wide array of works in many languages dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries, and associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini. She rarely sang opera later in her career but frequently performed in concert and recital, gave masterclasses, and supported young opera singers in launching their careers. (Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award 13/9/2017, KiriOnline - K.T. Kanawa. Accessed March 6, 2018).

1947 - Dick Fosbury (born Richard DouglasFosbry), American retired High jumper, inventor of the "Fosbury flop." , 1947) considered one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field. Besides winning a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, he revolutionized the high jump event with a "back-first" technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop, adopted by almost all high jumpers today. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backwards over the bar, which gave him a much lower center of mass in flight than traditional techniques.

1980 -  Shaun Francis Evans, English actor, best known for playing as young Endeavour Morse in the ITV drama series Endeavour.

Leftie:
Artist Michelangelo

Deaths:
1836 - Davy Crockett, American Frontiersman
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, Writer
2016 - Nancy Reagan, former U.S. First Lady

More birthdays and historical events, March 6 - On This Day

FEATURES:  ARTIST MICHELANGELO  (March 6, 1475 to February 18, 1564)

Michelangelo Art Documentary. Artist and Man. Biography Film. Video uploaded by artandfilm21. Accessed March 6, 2018. 

Historical Events

1836 - The 12-day siege of Alamo ends, leaving only six of 155 men alive.

1831 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera La Sonnambula is first performed in Milan. 

1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata is first staged in Venice. 

1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev (Mendeleyev), Russian chemist, presents the first periodic table of elements to the Russian Chemical Society.

1899 - Felix Hoffmann and Herman Dreser, German researchers, patent aspirin.
1944 - U.S. bombers begin their first air raid on Berlin, dropping some 2,000 tons of bombs.

1992 - The computer virus dubbed "Michelangelo" is discovered, set to erase IBM PC hard disk annually on March 6, the birthday of the artist Michelangelo. 



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2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
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5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org



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