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Composer calendar

Composers that were born on 6 August

Matthew Logan (1980) 44 years ago
Nuno Guedes de Campos (1971) 53 years ago
Christophe Sirodeau (1970) 54 years ago
Soren Hyldgaard (1962) 62 years ago
Kim D. Sherman (1954) 70 years ago
Henry Kucharzyk (1953) 71 years ago
Brian Holmes (1946) 78 years ago
Sorrel Hays (1941) 83 years ago
Mihail Pekov (1941) 83 years ago
Liviu Glodeanu (1939) 85 years ago
Igor Luchenok (1938) 86 years ago Igor Luchenok
Reinhold Finkbeiner (1929) 95 years ago Reinhold Finkbeiner
Leland Smith (1925) 99 years ago
Svend Erik Tarp (1908) 116 years ago
George Singer (1908) 116 years ago
Michal Vilec (1902) 122 years ago
Cyril Mockridge (1896) 128 years ago
Albert Gabriel Ribollet (1884) 140 years ago
Francesco Santoliquido (1883) 141 years ago
Arrigo Coronaro (1880) 144 years ago
Marcel Labey (1875) 149 years ago Marcel Labey
Fernand Andrieu (1863) 161 years ago
Francesco Paolo Frontini (1860) 164 years ago
Arthur Pougin (1834) 190 years ago
Bernhard Haltenberger (1748) 276 years ago
Barbara Strozzi (1619) 405 years ago Barbara Strozzi

Composers that died on 6 August

Lothar Knessl (2022) 2 years ago
Caecilia Andriessen (2019) 5 years ago
David Maslanka (2017) 7 years ago
Colin Hand (2015) 9 years ago
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (2012) 12 years ago
Cacilda Borges-Barbosa (2010) 14 years ago
Teizo Matsumura (2007) 17 years ago
Gabriel Pierre Berlioz (2007) 17 years ago
James Wilson (2005) 19 years ago
Larry Adler (2001) 23 years ago Larry Adler
Joan Trimble (2000) 24 years ago
André Fleury (1995) 29 years ago Image for André Fleury
Håkan Parkman (1988) 36 years ago
Samuel Ducommun (1987) 37 years ago Samuel Ducommun
Simone Ple-Caussade (1986) 38 years ago
Gregor Piatigorsky (1976) 48 years ago Gregor Piatigorsky
Ingolf Dahl (1970) 54 years ago
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1969) 55 years ago Image for Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Peter Ronnefeld (1965) 59 years ago
Franciszek Brzezinski (1944) 80 years ago Franciszek Brzeziński
Bix Beiderbecke (1931) 93 years ago Bix Beiderbecke
William Henry Grattan Flood (1928) 96 years ago W. H. Grattan Flood
Miguel Nieto (1915) 109 years ago
Martin Lazare (1897) 127 years ago
George Frederick Root (1895) 129 years ago George Frederick Root
Alexis Albert Gauthier de Garaudé (1854) 170 years ago
Iosif Iosifovich Genishta (1853) 171 years ago
Antonio Benelli (1830) 194 years ago
Antonín (Anton) Vranický (1820) 204 years ago
Jean-Pierre Solié (1812) 212 years ago
Charles Gauzargues (1801) 223 years ago Charles Gauzargues
Joseph Friebert (1799) 225 years ago
Karl Kohaut (1784) 240 years ago
Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber (1775) 249 years ago
Johann Beer (1700) 324 years ago Johann Beer
Paul Hainlein (1686) 338 years ago
Juan de Torres (1679) 345 years ago
Juan Blas de Castro (1631) 393 years ago

Composer events for 6 August

Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni (1923) 101 years ago
Premiere of Fantasia Contrapuntistica for 2 pianos, in Salzburg, Austria.
Gottfried von Einem (1947) 77 years ago
Premiere of Dantes Tod, in Salzburg, Austria.
Hans Werner Henze (1966) 58 years ago
Premiere of Die Bassariden, in Salzburg, Austria.

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