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Composer calendar

Composers that were born on 6 August

Matthew Logan (1980) 43 years ago
Nuno Guedes de Campos (1971) 52 years ago
Christophe Sirodeau (1970) 53 years ago
Soren Hyldgaard (1962) 61 years ago
Kim D. Sherman (1954) 69 years ago
Henry Kucharzyk (1953) 70 years ago
Brian Holmes (1946) 77 years ago
Mihail Pekov (1941) 82 years ago
Sorrel Hays (1941) 82 years ago
Liviu Glodeanu (1939) 84 years ago
Igor Luchenok (1938) 85 years ago Igor Luchenok
Reinhold Finkbeiner (1929) 94 years ago Reinhold Finkbeiner
Leland Smith (1925) 98 years ago
George Singer (1908) 115 years ago
Svend Erik Tarp (1908) 115 years ago
Michal Vilec (1902) 121 years ago
Cyril Mockridge (1896) 127 years ago
Albert Gabriel Ribollet (1884) 139 years ago
Francesco Santoliquido (1883) 140 years ago
Arrigo Coronaro (1880) 143 years ago
Marcel Labey (1875) 148 years ago Marcel Labey
Fernand Andrieu (1863) 160 years ago
Francesco Paolo Frontini (1860) 163 years ago
Arthur Pougin (1834) 189 years ago
Bernhard Haltenberger (1748) 275 years ago
Barbara Strozzi (1619) 404 years ago Barbara Strozzi

Composers that died on 6 August

Lothar Knessl (2022) 1 year ago
Caecilia Andriessen (2019) 4 years ago
David Maslanka (2017) 6 years ago
Colin Hand (2015) 8 years ago
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (2012) 11 years ago
Cacilda Borges-Barbosa (2010) 13 years ago
Gabriel Pierre Berlioz (2007) 16 years ago
Teizo Matsumura (2007) 16 years ago
James Wilson (2005) 18 years ago
Larry Adler (2001) 22 years ago Larry Adler
Joan Trimble (2000) 23 years ago
André Fleury (1995) 28 years ago Image for André Fleury
Håkan Parkman (1988) 35 years ago
Samuel Ducommun (1987) 36 years ago Samuel Ducommun
Simone Ple-Caussade (1986) 37 years ago
Gregor Piatigorsky (1976) 47 years ago Gregor Piatigorsky
Ingolf Dahl (1970) 53 years ago
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1969) 54 years ago Image for Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Peter Ronnefeld (1965) 58 years ago
Franciszek Brzezinski (1944) 79 years ago Franciszek Brzeziński
Bix Beiderbecke (1931) 92 years ago Bix Beiderbecke
William Henry Grattan Flood (1928) 95 years ago W. H. Grattan Flood
Martin Lazare (1897) 126 years ago
George Frederick Root (1895) 128 years ago George Frederick Root
Alexis Albert Gauthier de Garaudé (1854) 169 years ago
Iosif Iosifovich Genishta (1853) 170 years ago
Antonio Benelli (1830) 193 years ago
Antonín (Anton) Vranický (1820) 203 years ago
Jean-Pierre Solié (1812) 211 years ago
Charles Gauzargues (1801) 222 years ago Charles Gauzargues
Joseph Friebert (1799) 224 years ago
Karl Kohaut (1784) 239 years ago
Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber (1775) 248 years ago
Johann Beer (1700) 323 years ago Johann Beer
Paul Hainlein (1686) 337 years ago
Juan de Torres (1679) 344 years ago
Juan Blas de Castro (1631) 392 years ago

Composer events for 6 August

Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni (1923) 100 years ago
Premiere of Fantasia Contrapuntistica for 2 pianos, in Salzburg, Austria.
Gottfried von Einem (1947) 76 years ago
Premiere of Dantes Tod, in Salzburg, Austria.
Hans Werner Henze (1966) 57 years ago
Premiere of Die Bassariden, in Salzburg, Austria.

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