Previous posts for December 28th are here: Roger Sessions; Earl Hines (2019), Calixa Lavalée (2020), Christian Cannabich; Roger Sessions (2021), Martha Wash (2022), Roger Sessions (2023), and Roger Sessions; Nigel Kennedy (2024)
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Calixa Lavallée (28 December 1842 – 21 January 1891) was a French-Canadian-American musician and Union Army band musician during the American Civil War who composed "O Canada."
True Patriot Love
During the later years of his life, Lavallée was a choirmaster in Boston, and he died penniless in that city in 1891. -- Wikipedia
"O Canada" rings out each day
Across the frozen North
Whenever hockey players play
Or Mounties sally forth.
And Lavallée, the loyal one
Who wrote those patriot strains
Will stir the land from sun to sun
While Canada remains.
And yet he died without a cent,
O Canada! lament it!
Remember now that sad event,
And he who underwent it!
♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪
Julius Rietz (28 December 1812 – 12 September 1877) was a German composer, conductor, cellist, and teacher.
In Line
During 1848, a year after Mendelssohn's death, Rietz took over Mendelssohn's former role as conductor of the Gewandhaus concerts. – Wikipedia
When Mendelssohn died
I imagine he cried,
Though perhaps not with a moderate sob,
For one of the feats
Of Herr Julius Rietz
Was succeeding to Mendelssohn's job.
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