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The Classical Composers Database

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Composer events for today

Composers born today

Kentaro Noda (1976) 44 years ago

Arcadi Volodos (1972) 48 years ago

Selman Ada (1953) 67 years ago

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Jesus Villa Rojo (1940) 80 years ago

Shuko Mizuno (1934) 86 years ago

Michel Legrand (1932) 88 years ago

Michel Legrand

Eladia Blázquez (1931) 89 years ago

Juan Allende-Blin (1928) 92 years ago

Felix Werder (1922) 98 years ago

Ingvar Lidholm (1921) 99 years ago

Werner Thärichen (1921) 99 years ago

Julius Kowalski (1912) 108 years ago

Konrad Lechner (1911) 109 years ago

Guillaume Landré (1905) 115 years ago

Léo Grill (1846) 174 years ago

Arrigo Enrico Boito (1842) 178 years ago

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Samuel Lover (1797) 223 years ago

Johann Baptiste Cramer (1771) 249 years ago

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Samuel Wesley (1766) 254 years ago

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Antoine Boesset (1586) 434 years ago

Composers died today

Félix Moreau (2019) 1 year ago

Tyzen Hsiao (2015) 5 years ago

István Anhalt (2012) 8 years ago

Svatopluk Havelka (2009) 11 years ago

Leroy Jenkins (2007) 13 years ago

Leroy Jenkins

Virtú Maragno (2004) 16 years ago

Leo Ornstein (2002) 18 years ago

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Anthony Vazzana (2001) 19 years ago

Huub Kerstens (1999) 21 years ago

Geoffrey Bush (1998) 22 years ago

Ion Voicu (1997) 23 years ago

Ion Voicu

Julius Chajes (1985) 35 years ago

Herbert Norman Howells (1983) 37 years ago

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Charles Wilfred Orr (1976) 44 years ago

Pino Donati (1975) 45 years ago

Louis Haudebert (1963) 57 years ago

Henri Hermans (1947) 73 years ago

André-Charles Messager (1929) 91 years ago

Otto Goldschmidt (1907) 113 years ago

Paul Meriel (1897) 123 years ago

Jules de Swert (1891) 129 years ago

Ignaz Carl Hemmerlein (1840) 180 years ago

Johann Andreas Kirchhoff (1799) 221 years ago

Friedrich Ernst Benda (1785) 235 years ago

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1704) 316 years ago

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Antimo Liberati (1692) 328 years ago

Antimo Liberati

Matthias Weckman (1674) 346 years ago

Sebald Nachtigal (1518) 502 years ago

Premieres today

Claudio Monteverdi (1607) 413 years ago

Premiere of Orfeo, in Mantua, Italy.

George Frideric Handel (1711) 309 years ago

Premiere of Rinaldo, in London, England.

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1876) 144 years ago

Premiere of the Peer Gynt play music in Christiana Theatre, Christiana (Oslo), Norway, with Grieg conducting.

Roy Harris (1939) 81 years ago

Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in Boston, USA.

Alban Berg, Friedrich Cerha (1979) 41 years ago

Premiere of Berg's Lulu (completed by Cerha), in Paris, France.

Composer places for today

Arrigo Enrico Boito (1842) 178 years ago

Place: former Palazzo Zaborra Via Cavour, 17 Padova