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The Classical Composers Database

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Composer events for today

Composers born today

Nami Melumad (1988) 35 years ago

Nami Melumad

Yoke Cheng Wong (1971) 52 years ago

Stacy Garrop (1969) 54 years ago

Robin de Raaff (1968) 55 years ago

Cliff Eidelman (1964) 59 years ago

Juhani Nuorvala (1961) 62 years ago

Osvaldo Golijov (1960) 63 years ago

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Roussi Tarmakov (1949) 74 years ago

Egberto Gismonti (1947) 76 years ago

Heidi Baader Nobs (1940) 83 years ago

Frederik van Rossum (1939) 84 years ago

José Antonio Alcaraz (1938) 85 years ago

Bernard van Beurden (1933) 90 years ago

Akira Tamba (1932) 91 years ago

James Cleveland (1932) 91 years ago

Claude Langevin (1928) 95 years ago

Guy Morancon (1927) 96 years ago

Guy Morançon

Karl Ernst Sasse (1923) 100 years ago

Elliot Weisgarber (1919) 104 years ago

Thomas C. Kelly (1917) 106 years ago

Dino Olivieri (1905) 118 years ago

ino Olivieri

Hanns [Johann] Jelinek (1901) 122 years ago

María-Luisa Escobar (1898) 125 years ago

Yedidia Admon (1896) 127 years ago

Henriëtte Bosmans (1895) 128 years ago

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Ennemond Trillat (1890) 133 years ago

Áskell Snorrason (1888) 135 years ago

Stefan Timofeyevich Abbakumov (1870) 153 years ago

Vítězslav Novák (1870) 153 years ago

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James Thornton (1861) 162 years ago

James Thornton

Joseph Friebert (1724) 299 years ago

Giuseppe de Majo (1697) 326 years ago

Francesco Geminiani (1687) 336 years ago

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Henry Lawes (1595) 428 years ago

Composers died today

John Beckwith (2022) 1 year ago

Jost Meier (2022) 1 year ago

Keith Herrmann (2021) 2 years ago

Dave Brubeck (2012) 11 years ago

Ludmila Ulehla (2009) 14 years ago

Andrew Imbrie (2007) 16 years ago

Karlheinz Stockhausen (2007) 16 years ago

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Štěpán Lucký (2006) 17 years ago

Yehoshua Lakner (2003) 20 years ago

Reiner Bredemeyer (1995) 28 years ago

Reiner Bredemeyer

Felipe Padilla de Leon (1992) 31 years ago

Felipe Padilla de Leon

Eduardo Sáinz de la Maza (1982) 41 years ago

Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1963) 60 years ago

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Jan Kubelík (1940) 83 years ago

Jan Kubelík

Richard Eilenberg (1927) 96 years ago

Giacomo Setaccioli (1925) 98 years ago

Giacomo Setaccioli

William Henry Humiston (1923) 100 years ago

Charles Malo (1914) 109 years ago

Charles Malo

Benjamin Franklin White (1879) 144 years ago

Benjamin Franklin White

Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1859) 164 years ago

Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (1824) 199 years ago

Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy

Robert (OSB) Kimmerling (1799) 224 years ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791) 232 years ago

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Johann Friedrich Fasch (1758) 265 years ago

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Christoph Heinrich Forster (1745) 278 years ago

Ercole Bernabei (1687) 336 years ago

Ercole Bernabei

Severo Bonini (1663) 360 years ago

Premieres today

Hector Berlioz (1830) 193 years ago

Premiere of the Symphonie Phantastique op. 14, in Paris, France.

Hector Berlioz (1837) 186 years ago

Premiere of the Requiem op. 5, in Paris, France.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1880) 143 years ago

Premiere of the Cappricio Italien, in Moscow, Russia.

Leoš Janáček (1927) 96 years ago

Premiere of the Glagolitic Mass, in Brno, Czech Republic.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1960) 63 years ago

Premiere of Dialogue for two pianos and large orchestra, in Cologne, Germany.

Peter Wallin (1992) 31 years ago

First performance of "Cla(o)p 1", in Esbjerg, Denmark.

Composer places for today

Francesco Geminiani (1687) 336 years ago

Place: San Francesco Piazza San Francesco Lucca