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Composers that were born on 8 January

Andrea Casagrande (1981) 43 years ago
Joakim Zelmerlööw (1974) 50 years ago
Frank Lee Sprague (1969) 55 years ago
Anders Blomqvist (1956) 68 years ago
Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau (1955) 69 years ago
Ric Graebner (1943) 81 years ago
Robert Moran (1937) 87 years ago Image for Robert Moran
Georg Riedel (1934) 90 years ago Georg Riedel
Benjamin Lees (1924) 100 years ago Image for Benjamin Lees
Antal Ribáry (1924) 100 years ago
Robert Starer (1924) 100 years ago
Charles Mills (1914) 110 years ago
Rudolf Escher (1912) 112 years ago
Andrej Ocenas (1911) 113 years ago
Giacinto Scelsi (1905) 119 years ago Image for Giacinto Scelsi
Hamilton Forrest (1901) 123 years ago
Jaromir Weinberger (1896) 128 years ago
Werner Wehrli (1892) 132 years ago
Josué Wilkes (1883) 141 years ago
Blanche Lucas (1874) 150 years ago
Max Puchat (1859) 165 years ago
Jean Gabriel-Marie (1852) 172 years ago
William Wallace Gilchrist (1846) 178 years ago
Carlo Andreoli (1840) 184 years ago Carlo Andreoli
Hans von Bulow (1830) 194 years ago Hans von Bülow
Alfredo (Carlo) Piatti (1822) 202 years ago
Sigismond Thalberg (1812) 212 years ago Image for Sigismond Thalberg
Johann Benjamin Heinrich Birnbach (1793) 231 years ago
Lowell Mason (1792) 232 years ago Lowell Mason
George Eugène Griffin (1781) 243 years ago
Philip Trajetta (1777) 247 years ago
Antonino Reggio (1725) 299 years ago
Jean Gilles (1668) 356 years ago
David Funck (1648) 376 years ago

Composers that died on 8 January

Phill Niblock (2024) 2 months ago
Siegfried Kurz (2023) 1 year ago
Marc Wilkinson (2022) 2 years ago
Osías Wilenski (2021) 3 years ago
Cornel Trailescu (2019) 5 years ago
Alexis Weissenberg (2012) 12 years ago
Jan Håkan Åberg (2012) 12 years ago
Hans Ulrich Engelmann (2011) 13 years ago
Ivo Jirasek (2004) 20 years ago
Michael Tippett (1998) 26 years ago Image for Michael Tippett
Theo Bruins (1993) 31 years ago
Jeanne Barbillion (1992) 32 years ago
Mansel Treharne Thomas (1986) 38 years ago
M.K. Jerome (1977) 47 years ago
Adriano Lualdi (1971) 53 years ago
Jani Christou (1970) 54 years ago
Erich Anders (1955) 69 years ago Erich Anders
Richard Tauber (1948) 76 years ago Richard Tauber
Catharinus Elling (1942) 82 years ago
Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu (1928) 96 years ago
Alexandre Dubuque (1898) 126 years ago Alexandre Dubuque
Fredrik Pacius (1891) 133 years ago Fredrik Pacius
Juan Maria Guelbenzu (1886) 138 years ago
Friedrich Karl Kühmstedt (1858) 166 years ago
Franz Vinzenz Krommer (1831) 193 years ago Image for Franz Vinzenz Krommer
Ramón Garay (1823) 201 years ago
Christian Gottlob Saupe (1819) 205 years ago
Arcangelo Corelli (1713) 311 years ago Image for Arcangelo Corelli
Michael de Ronghe (1696) 328 years ago
Giovanni Battista Gagliano (1651) 373 years ago
Jacobus Vaet (1567) 457 years ago

Composer events for 8 January

Max Reger (1915) 109 years ago
Premiere of the Mozart Variations op. 132, in Wiesbaden, Germany, with Reger conducting.
Alban Berg (1927) 97 years ago
Premiere of of the Lyrische Suite, in Vienna, Austria.
Othmar Schoeck (1927) 97 years ago
Premiere of Penthesilea, in Dresden, Germany.
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1963) 61 years ago
Premiere of Katerina Izmailova, in Moscow, Russia.
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1972) 52 years ago
Premiere of Symphony no. 15, in Moscow, Russia.
György Sándor Ligeti (1975) 49 years ago
Premiere of San Fransisco Polyphony, in San Fransisco, USA.

Composer places for 8 January

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