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Composers that were born on 8 April

Giedrius Kuprevičius (1944) 80 years ago
Iris Litchfield (1938) 86 years ago
David Dichiera (1935) 89 years ago
Jaroslav Smolka (1933) 91 years ago
John Kinsella (1932) 92 years ago
Jacques Brel (1929) 95 years ago
François Vercken (1928) 96 years ago François Vercken
Piet Post (1919) 105 years ago
Berta Alves de Sousa (1906) 118 years ago
John Antill (1904) 120 years ago
Rosa Garcia Ascot (1902) 122 years ago
Herbert Eimert (1897) 127 years ago
Karl Hermann Pillney (1896) 128 years ago
Fernand Lamy (1881) 143 years ago
Rudolf Nelson (1878) 146 years ago
Eduard Behm (1862) 162 years ago
Stanislao Gastaldon (1861) 163 years ago
Asger Hamerik (1843) 181 years ago
Giuseppe Apolloni (1822) 202 years ago
Karl Evers (1819) 205 years ago Carl Evers
Dionisio Aguado (1784) 240 years ago
Ferdinand Gasse (1780) 244 years ago
Thaddaus Weigl (1776) 248 years ago
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (1722) 302 years ago
Georg Zarth (1708) 316 years ago
Giuseppe Tartini (1692) 332 years ago Image for Giuseppe Tartini
Claudio Merulo (1533) 491 years ago Claudio Merulo

Composers that died on 8 April

Richard Moryl (2018) 5 years ago
Marcel Farago (2016) 7 years ago
John McCarthy (2009) 14 years ago
Maki Ishii (2003) 20 years ago
Andrej Ocenas (1995) 28 years ago
Luc André Marcel (1992) 31 years ago Luc-André Marcel
Boris Tikhonovich Kozhevnikov (1985) 38 years ago
George Cacioppo (1984) 39 years ago
Edwin Grasse (1954) 69 years ago
Emilio Serrano y Ruiz (1939) 85 years ago Emilio Serrano
Arthur William Foote (1937) 87 years ago
Robert Freund (1936) 88 years ago
Ludvig Holm (1928) 96 years ago Ludvig Holm
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1920) 104 years ago Image for Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Karol Bernard Zaluski (1919) 105 years ago Karol Bernard Załuski
Johann Sioly (1911) 113 years ago Johann Sioly
Benedetto Carulli (1877) 147 years ago
Charles Louis Hanssens (1871) 153 years ago Charles Louis Hanssens
Charles Auguste de Bériot (1870) 154 years ago Image for Charles Auguste de Bériot
John Park (1865) 159 years ago
Joseph Netherclift (1863) 161 years ago
John Parry (1851) 173 years ago John Parry (Bardd Alaw)
Gaetano Donizetti (1848) 176 years ago Image for Gaetano Donizetti
Jan Jakub Ryba (1815) 209 years ago
Pedro Vaz Rego (1736) 288 years ago
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (1664) 360 years ago
Lorenzo de Medici (1492) 532 years ago Lorenzo de' Medici

Composer events for 8 April

Amilcare Ponchielli (1876) 148 years ago
Premiere of La Gioconda, in Milan, Italy.
Anton Bruckner (1894) 130 years ago
Premiere of Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, in Vienna, Austria.
Edgard Varèse (1927) 97 years ago
Premiere of Arcana, in Philadelphia, USA.
Leonard Bernstein (1949) 74 years ago
Premiere of The Age of Anxiety (symphony no. 2), in Boston, USA.

Composer places for 8 April

Claudio Merulo (1533) 491 years ago

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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