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Composers that were born on 26 May

Todd Goodman (1977) 47 years ago
Mattias Wager (1967) 57 years ago
Dorothée Hahne (1966) 58 years ago Dorothée Hahne
Howard Goodall (1958) 66 years ago Howard Goodall
Alexander Rahbari (1948) 76 years ago Alexander Rahbari
Philip Bračanin (1942) 82 years ago
Imants Kalnins (1941) 83 years ago Imants Kalniņš
John Maxwell Geddes (1941) 83 years ago
Sook Ja Oh (1941) 83 years ago
Charles Pizer (1941) 83 years ago
Michel Merlet (1939) 85 years ago
William Bolcom (1938) 86 years ago Image for William Bolcom
Yehuda Yannay (1937) 87 years ago Yehuda Yannay
Alfred Kunz (1929) 95 years ago
Maria de Lourdes Martins (1926) 98 years ago
Joseph Horovitz (1926) 98 years ago
Miles Davis (1926) 98 years ago Miles Davis
Willem Hendrik Zwart (1925) 99 years ago Image for Willem Hendrik Zwart
Louis Thomas Hardin (1916) 108 years ago
Shena Fraser (1910) 114 years ago
Eugen Kapp (1908) 116 years ago
Gérard Bertouille (1898) 126 years ago
Ernst Bacon (1898) 126 years ago Image for Ernst Bacon
Eugene Goossens (1893) 131 years ago Image for Eugene Goossens
Samuel Feinberg (1890) 134 years ago
Al Jolson (1886) 138 years ago Al Jolson
Alice Barnett (1886) 138 years ago
Arthur Coquard (1846) 178 years ago Arthur Coquard
Felipe Gutierrez Espinosa (1825) 199 years ago
Dirk Janszoon Sweelinck (1591) 433 years ago

Composers that died on 26 May

Jonathan Whitehead (2020) 4 years ago
Franz Tischhauser (2016) 8 years ago
Francesco D’Avalos (2014) 10 years ago Francesco d’Avalos
Antonio Braga (2009) 15 years ago Antonio Braga
Anita Hewitt-Jones (2007) 17 years ago
Cor de Groot (1993) 31 years ago
Constantin Bobescu (1992) 32 years ago
José Muñoz Molleda (1988) 36 years ago
Emiliana de Zubeldía (1987) 37 years ago Emiliana de Zubeldía
Victor Herbert (1924) 100 years ago Victor Herbert in New York, April 1914
Jan Blockx (1912) 112 years ago
Charles Louis Napoléon d' Albert (1886) 138 years ago
Aimé Maillart (1871) 153 years ago Louis-Aimé Maillart
Carl Augustin Grenser (1864) 160 years ago Carl Augustin Grenser
Johann Caspar Seyfert (1767) 257 years ago

Composer events for 26 May

Igor Stravinsky (1914) 110 years ago
Premiere of Le Rossignol, in Paris, France.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1953) 71 years ago
Premiere of Kontrapunkte, in Cologne, Germany.
György Sándor Ligeti (1966) 58 years ago
Premiere of Nouvelles Aventures, in Hamburg, Germany.

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