Constanza Mozart (1762-1842)
Frederick Converse (1871-1940)
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Reginald Smith-Brindle (1917-2003)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)
Laszlo Heltay (1930)
Alfred Brendel (1931)
Maurizio Pollini (1942)
and
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990)
W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009)
Umberto Eco (1932)
Charlie Rose (1942)
From the New Music Box:
On January 5, 1939, the voder (later
called the vocoder), a machine that synthesizes the human voice, was
demonstrated publicly for the first time at the Franklin Institute in
Philadelphia by Homer Dudley. On that same day, the Philadelphia La
Scala Opera mounted a production of Horus, an opera in 4 acts by
Hungarian-American composer Gabriel Von Wayditch (1888-1969), who
composed a total of 14 operas including one that is 8 1/2 hours-long and
is cited as the longest opera ever composed in the Guiness Book of
World Records. The performance of Horus, conducted by Gustav Mahler's
nephew Fritz, turned out to be the only one ever of one of Wayditch's
operas performed in his lifetime
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