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Composer calendar

Composers that were born on 2 January

Jorrit Tamminga (1973) 51 years ago
Eric Whitacre (1970) 54 years ago
Patrizio Marrone (1961) 63 years ago
Volker Blumenthaler (1951) 73 years ago Image for Volker Blumenthaler
Stephen Tosh (1949) 75 years ago
Vassily Pavlovich Lobanov (1947) 77 years ago
Péter Eötvös (1944) 80 years ago Péter Eötvös
Maija Einfelde (1939) 85 years ago
Franz Hummel (1939) 85 years ago
Ángel Oliver Pina (1937) 87 years ago
Iván Erőd (1936) 88 years ago
Tiberiu Olah (1928) 96 years ago
Stanislaw Mronski (1926) 98 years ago Stanislaw Mronski
Nico Schuyt (1922) 102 years ago
Gardner Read (1913) 111 years ago Gardner Read
Robert Elmore (1913) 111 years ago
Barbara Pentland (1912) 112 years ago
Jānis Ķepītis (1908) 116 years ago
Salvador Ley (1907) 117 years ago
Michael Tippett (1905) 119 years ago Image for Michael Tippett
Johann Baptist Hilber (1891) 133 years ago Johann Baptist Hilber
Sandor Erkel (1846) 178 years ago Sándor Erkel
Milii Balakirev (1837) 187 years ago Image for Milii Balakirev
Louis Jungmann (1832) 192 years ago
Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns (1809) 215 years ago Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns
Désiré Alexandre Batton (1798) 226 years ago
František (Franz) Xaver Brixi (1732) 292 years ago
Jean Jacques Baptiste Anet (1676) 348 years ago

Composers that died on 2 January

Andrew Downes (2023) 1 year ago Andrew Downes
Francis Bayer (2004) 20 years ago
Rolf Liebermann (1999) 25 years ago Image for Rolf Liebermann
Peter Jona Korn (1998) 26 years ago
Karl Ahrendt (1993) 31 years ago Image for Karl Ahrendt
Vladimir Ussachevsky (1990) 34 years ago
Ivana Lang (1982) 42 years ago
Dilermando Reis (1977) 47 years ago Dilermando Reis
Erroll Garner (1977) 47 years ago Erroll Garner
Alexis Roland-Manuel (1966) 58 years ago
Sadie Koninsky (1952) 72 years ago
Sabine Baring-Gould (1924) 100 years ago Sabine Baring-Gould
Marie Regina Siegling (1920) 104 years ago Marie Siegling
Carl Goldmark (1915) 109 years ago Károly Goldmark
Louis Coenen (1904) 120 years ago
Joseph Jacques Auguste Ancessy (1871) 153 years ago
Johann Georg Weichenberger (1740) 284 years ago
Domenico Zipoli (1726) 298 years ago
Gregorio Strozzi (1692) 332 years ago

Composer events for 2 January

Richard Wagner (1843) 181 years ago
Premiere of Der Fliegende Holländer, in Dresden, Germany, with Wagner conducting.
Camille Saint-Saëns, Pablo Martin Melinton Sarasate de Navasquez (1881) 143 years ago
Premiere of Saint-Saëns's violin concerto no. 3 in b minor op. 61, in Paris, France, with Sarasate on the violin

Composer birthdays, dying days and events for every day or month of the year. Select a day for all events for that day.

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