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Composers that were born on 26 May

Todd Goodman (1977) 43 years ago
Howard Goodall (1958) 62 years ago Howard Goodall
John Maxwell Geddes (1941) 79 years ago
Imants Kalnins (1941) 79 years ago Imants Kalniņš
Michel Merlet (1939) 81 years ago
William Bolcom (1938) 82 years ago Image for William Bolcom
Yehuda Yannay (1937) 83 years ago Yehuda Yannay
Alfred Kunz (1929) 91 years ago
Maria de Lourdes Martins (1926) 94 years ago
Miles Davis (1926) 94 years ago Miles Davis
Willem Hendrik Zwart (1925) 95 years ago Image for Willem Hendrik Zwart
Louis Thomas Hardin (1916) 104 years ago
Shena Fraser (1910) 110 years ago
Eugen Kapp (1908) 112 years ago
Gérard Bertouille (1898) 122 years ago
Ernst Bacon (1898) 122 years ago Image for Ernst Bacon
Eugene Goossens (1893) 127 years ago Image for Eugene Goossens
Alice Barnett (1886) 134 years ago
Arthur Coquard (1846) 174 years ago Arthur Coquard
Felipe Gutierrez Espinosa (1825) 195 years ago
Dirk Janszoon Sweelinck (1591) 429 years ago

Composers that died on 26 May

Jonathan Whitehead (2020) 5 months ago
Antonio Braga (2009) 11 years ago Antonio Braga
Anita Hewitt-Jones (2007) 13 years ago
Cor de Groot (1993) 27 years ago
Constantin Bobescu (1992) 28 years ago
José Muñoz Molleda (1988) 32 years ago
Victor Herbert (1924) 96 years ago Victor Herbert in New York, April 1914
Jan Blockx (1912) 108 years ago
Johann Caspar Seyfert (1767) 253 years ago

Composer events for 26 May

Igor Stravinsky (1914) 106 years ago
Premiere of Le Rossignol, in Paris, France.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1953) 67 years ago
Premiere of Kontrapunkte, in Cologne, Germany.
György Sándor Ligeti (1966) 54 years ago
Premiere of Nouvelles Aventures, in Hamburg, Germany.

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