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The Classical Composers Database

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Composers born today

Bára Gísladóttir (1989) 35 years ago

David Plylar (1978) 46 years ago

Michelle Ekizian (1956) 68 years ago

Áskell Másson (1953) 71 years ago

Judith Shatin (1949) 75 years ago

Alberto Villalpando (1940) 84 years ago

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (1932) 92 years ago

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Malcolm Williamson (1931) 93 years ago

David Moule-Evans (1905) 119 years ago

Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877) 147 years ago

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Alfred Matthew Hale (1876) 148 years ago

Johan Evje (1874) 150 years ago

Francisco Tárrega (1852) 172 years ago

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Joseph Abenheim (1804) 220 years ago

Johann Heinrich Walch (1775) 249 years ago

Josef Triebensee (1772) 252 years ago

Alessandro Felici (1742) 282 years ago

Johann Michael Muller (1683) 341 years ago

Johann Lohner (1645) 379 years ago

Composers died today

Gordon Crosse (2021) 3 years ago

Robert C. Bachmann (2019) 5 years ago

Jean-Claude Risset (2016) 8 years ago

Jean-Claude Risset

Bernard Parmegiani (2013) 11 years ago

Bernard Parmegiani

Conrad Susa (2013) 11 years ago

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Arghyris [Argyris] Kounadis (2011) 13 years ago

José de Almeida Prado (2010) 14 years ago

José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado

Veroslav Neumann (2006) 18 years ago

René Gerber (2006) 18 years ago

René Gerber

Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz (1998) 26 years ago

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Robert Simpson (1997) 27 years ago

Bernard Rose (1996) 28 years ago

Philip B. Catelinet (1995) 29 years ago

Frank Martin (1974) 50 years ago

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Artur Lemba (1963) 61 years ago

Karol Rathaus (1954) 70 years ago

Reinhard Oppel (1941) 83 years ago

Leopold Godowsky (1938) 86 years ago

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Emil Steinkühler (1872) 152 years ago

Joseph Mayseder (1863) 161 years ago

Josef Mayseder

Francisco Javier Cabo (1832) 192 years ago

Bernardo Pasquini (1710) 314 years ago

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António Marques Lésbio (1709) 315 years ago

Henry Purcell (1695) 329 years ago

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Spiridion (1685) 339 years ago

Premieres today

Gaetano Donizetti (1827) 197 years ago

Premiere of Viva la Mamma, in Naples, Italy.

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1831) 193 years ago

Premiere of Robert le Diable, in Paris, France.

Richard Strauss (1901) 123 years ago

Premiere of Feuersnot, in Dresden, Germany.

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1937) 87 years ago

Premiere of Symphony no. 5 in c minor op. 47, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Composer places for today

Henry Purcell (1695) 329 years ago

Place: Westminster Abbey Westminster