Events in Music May 30 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague) Birthdays in Music May 13 Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer May 17 Erik Satie, French composer (Gymnopédies), born in Honfleur, Normandy (d. 1925) May 31 Vladimir Rebikov, Russian pianist and composer, born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia (d. 1920) Deaths in Music May 17 Adolf Bernhard Marx, German composer, dies at 70 1865 Music History by Year 1867