Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1m!gadfly From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Happy birthday JSB! *** and DS! *** (and JCB!!) Message-ID: <215@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 23:58:21 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.215 Posted: Sun Jan 13 23:58:21 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 05:19:27 EST References: <3219@alice.UUCP> <190@ihu1m.UUCP>, <19243@lanl.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 21 -- >> Well, I looked up D. Scarlatti in a dictionary, which gave the year >> of his birth as 1683. To be sure, though, 1985 is also the 300th >> anniversary of George Frederick Handel (or Georg Friedrich Haendel, >> if you prefer) and the 400th of Heinrich Schuetz. >> Joe Fasel Better get a new dictionary. 26 Oct. 1685 is the accepted birth date for Scarlatti. You're right on Schuetz, however--8 Oct. 1585. But curiouser and curiouser... My Peters music calendar shows that 5 Sep. 1985 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Christian Bach. At 50, ol' J.S. had a passion for more than just composing. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 13 Jan 85 [24 Nivose An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***