Birthdays

1 May

1582	Birthday of Marco da Gagliano	443 years
1635	Birthday of Daniel Daniélis	390 years
1775	Birthday of Sophia Giustina Dussek	250 years
1872	Birthday of Hugo Alfvén	153 years
1895	Birthday of Leo Sowerby	130 years
1899	Birthday of Jón Leifs	126 years
1902	Birthday of Joseph Rixner	123 years
1909	Birthday of George Melachrino	116 years
1912	Birthday of Felipe Padilla de León	113 years
1937	Birthday of Bo Nilsson	88 years
1939	Birthday of Victor Davies	86 years
1939	Birthday of David Loeb	86 years
1959	Birthday of Richard Dünser	66 years

2 May

1660	Birthday of Alessandro Scarlatti	365 years
1707	Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Barrière	318 years
1750	Birthday of Manuel Blasco de Nebra	275 years
1752	Birthday of Ludwig August Lebrun	273 years
1754	Birthday of Vicente Martín y Soler	271 years
1754	Birthday of Vicente Martín y Soler	271 years
1755	Birthday of Johann Ludwig Willing	270 years
1810	Birthday of Hans Christian Lumbye	215 years
1843	Birthday of Carl Michael Ziehrer	182 years
1846	Birthday of Zygmunt Noskowski	179 years
1857	Birthday of Frederic Cliffe	168 years
1862	Birthday of Marie François Maurice Emmanuel	163 years
1865	Birthday of Enric Morera i Viura	160 years
1901	Birthday of Lotte Backes	124 years
1905	Birthday of Alan Rawsthorne	120 years
1906	Birthday of Wilhelm Stollenwerk	119 years
1915	Birthday of Jan Hanuš	110 years
1925	Birthday of Svatopluk Havelka	100 years
1954	Birthday of Elliot Goldenthal	71 years

3 May

1649	Birthday of Johann Valentin Meder	376 years
1729	Birthday of Florian Leopold Gassmann	296 years
1737	Birthday of Friedrich Schwindl	288 years
1886	Birthday of Marcel Dupré	139 years
1929	Birthday of Hans Stadlmair	96 years
1934	Birthday of Božidar Kos	91 years
1934	Birthday of Georg Kröll	91 years
1939	Birthday of Jonathan Harvey	86 years
1959	Birthday of Shigeru Kan-no	66 years
1960	Birthday of Steffen Schleiermacher	65 years

4 May

1744	Birthday of Marianna von Martines	281 years
1805	Birthday of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann	220 years
1860	Birthday of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek	165 years
1867	Birthday of Dynam-Victor Fumet	158 years
1904	Birthday of León Zuckert	121 years
1905	Birthday of Mátyás Seiber	120 years
1924	Birthday of Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva	101 years
1937	Birthday of Hans Ulrich Lehmann	88 years
1965	Birthday of Seppo Pohjola	60 years

5 May

1666	Birthday of Johann Heinrich Buttstett	359 years
1680	Birthday of Giuseppe Porsile	345 years
1708	Birthday of Johann Adolph Scheibe	317 years
1749	Birthday of Jean-Frédéric Edelmann	276 years
1819	Birthday of Stanislav Moniuszko	206 years
1848	Birthday of Adalbert von Goldschmidt	177 years
1854	Birthday of Antonio Smareglia	171 years
1869	Birthday of Hans Pfitzner	156 years
1885	Birthday of Agustín Barrios Mangoré	140 years
1894	Birthday of Gertrud Schweizer	131 years
1906	Birthday of Waldemar Bloch	119 years
1907	Birthday of Yoritsune Matsudaira	118 years
1916	Birthday of Veli Mukhatov	109 years
1936	Birthday of Patrick Gowers	89 years
1952	Birthday of Maia Ciobanu	73 years
1975	Birthday of Gerald Resch	50 years

6 May

1649	Birthday of Cataldo Amodei	376 years
1696	Birthday of Johann Daniel Hardt	329 years
1794	Birthday of Carl Arnold	231 years
1814	Birthday of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst	211 years
1821	Birthday of Emilie Holmberg	204 years
1858	Birthday of Georges Adolphe Hüe	167 years
1859	Birthday of Ernst Hermann Seyffardt	166 years
1882	Birthday of Georgi Atanasov	143 years
1898	Birthday of Walter Simon Huber	127 years
1908	Birthday of Necil Käzim Akses	117 years
1913	Birthday of Gyula Dávid	112 years
1945	Birthday of Victoria Bond	80 years
1953	Birthday of Peter Child	72 years
1953	Birthday of Ivan Fedele	72 years
1960	Birthday of Kamran Ince	65 years
1960	Birthday of Yekaterina Chemberdzhi	65 years

7 May

1704	Birthday of Carl Heinrich Graun	321 years
1745	Birthday of Carl Stamitz	280 years
1756	Birthday of Thomas Linley	269 years
1759	Birthday of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach	266 years
1833	Birthday of Johannes Brahms	192 years
1840	Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	185 years
1880	Birthday of Karl Bleyle	145 years
1889	Birthday of Lou Koster	136 years
1901	Birthday of Marcel Poot	124 years
1908	Birthday of Joseph Beer	117 years
1924	Birthday of Peter Welffens	101 years
1934	Birthday of Heinz Marti	91 years
1936	Birthday of Cornelius Cardew	89 years
1947	Birthday of Milan Slavický	78 years
1950	Birthday of Philip Lane	75 years

8 May

1742	Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz	283 years
1820	Birthday of Ernst Otto Toller	205 years
1844	Birthday of Hermann Grädener	181 years
1893	Birthday of Charles Williams	132 years
1901	Birthday of Ernst Schiffmann	124 years
1933	Birthday of Albert Markov	92 years
1934	Birthday of Jan Paul Nagel	91 years
1936	Birthday of Henning Frederichs	89 years
1945	Birthday of Keith Jarrett	80 years
1950	Birthday of Lepo Sumera	75 years
1955	Birthday of Denys Bouliane	70 years
1965	Birthday of Thierry Escaich	60 years

9 May

1740	Birthday of Giovanni Paisiello	285 years
1814	Birthday of Adolf Henselt	211 years
1855	Birthday of Julius Röntgen	170 years
1859	Birthday of Richard Mandl	166 years
1865	Birthday of August de Boeck	160 years
1904	Birthday of Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling	121 years
1941	Birthday of Gérard Zinsstag	84 years
1947	Birthday of Peter Planyavsky	78 years
1954	Birthday of Olga Magidenko	71 years

10 May

1697	Birthday of Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder	328 years
1705	Birthday of Gallus Zeiler	320 years
1811	Birthday of Josef von Wenusch	214 years
1874	Birthday of Hugo Leonard	151 years
1877	Birthday of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár	148 years
1887	Birthday of August Pepöck	138 years
1888	Birthday of Max Steiner	137 years
1894	Birthday of Dimitri Tiomkin	131 years
1898	Birthday of Herbert Elwell	127 years
1912	Birthday of Erik Jørgensen	113 years
1916	Birthday of Milton Babbitt	109 years
1929	Birthday of Dinos Constantinides	96 years
1942	Birthday of Ingram Marshall	83 years
1946	Birthday of Ulrich Stranz	79 years
1964	Birthday of Mark André	61 years
1969	Birthday of Wajahat Khan	56 years

11 May

1791	Birthday of Jan Václav Voříšek	234 years
1791	Birthday of Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek	234 years
1835	Birthday of Heinrich Freiherr von Bach	190 years
1835	Birthday of Heinrich Molbe	190 years
1855	Birthday of Anatoly Konstantinovich Liadov	170 years
1859	Birthday of Karl Kapeller	166 years
1861	Birthday of Anna Teichmüller	164 years
1879	Birthday of Manuel Martinez-Sobral	146 years
1881	Birthday of Jan van Gilse	144 years
1882	Birthday of Joseph Marx	143 years
1895	Birthday of William Grant Still	130 years
1896	Birthday of Josip Slavenski	129 years
1909	Birthday of Herbert Murrill	116 years
1943	Birthday of Tania Léon	82 years
1948	Birthday of Frano Parać	77 years
1954	Birthday of Judith Weir	71 years
1956	Birthday of Marc Matthys	69 years
1969	Birthday of Helmut Schmidinger	56 years

12 May

1703	Birthday of Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer	322 years
1739	Birthday of Johann Baptist Vanhal	286 years
1754	Birthday of Franz Anton Hoffmeister	271 years
1755	Birthday of Giovanni Battista Viotti	270 years
1824	Birthday of Emile Steinkühler	201 years
1842	Birthday of Jules Massenet	183 years
1845	Birthday of Gabriel Fauré	180 years
1865	Birthday of Eduardo di Capua	160 years
1880	Birthday of Carl Mennicke	145 years
1886	Birthday of Hermann Grabner	139 years
1900	Birthday of Bruno Henze	125 years
1903	Birthday of Lennox Berkeley	122 years
1941	Birthday of Vratislav Petr Černík	84 years
1942	Birthday of Carl van Wyk	83 years
1958	Birthday of Joschi Schumann	67 years

13 May

1807	Birthday of Karl Eduard Hering	218 years
1842	Birthday of Arthur Sullivan	183 years
1852	Birthday of Sigismond Blumenfeld	173 years
1859	Birthday of August Enna	166 years
1866	Birthday of Ottokar Nováček	159 years
1886	Birthday of Joseph Achron	139 years
1886	Birthday of Albert Fébvre-Longeray	139 years
1891	Birthday of Craig Sellar Lang	134 years
1929	Birthday of Will Eisma	96 years
1935	Birthday of Nigel Butterley	90 years
1937	Birthday of Gerhard Tittel	88 years
1949	Birthday of Piotr Moss	76 years
1951	Birthday of Guus Janssen	74 years
1955	Birthday of Xiaoyong Chen	70 years

14 May

1652	Birthday of Johann Philipp Förtsch	373 years
1707	Birthday of António Teixeira	318 years
1752	Birthday of Juliane Benda	273 years
1769	Birthday of Johann Georg Hermann Voigt	256 years
1812	Birthday of Emilie Mayer	213 years
1883	Birthday of Joan Manén y Planas	142 years
1885	Birthday of Otto Klemperer	140 years
1891	Birthday of Egon Kornauth	134 years
1892	Birthday of Arthur Lourié	133 years
1892	Birthday of Felix Petyrek	133 years
1900	Birthday of Leo Smit	125 years
1902	Birthday of Lucija Garuta	123 years
1911	Birthday of Hans Vogt	114 years
1917	Birthday of Lou Harrison	108 years
1924	Birthday of Joly Braga Santos	101 years
1926	Birthday of Richard Giez	99 years
1926	Birthday of Čestmír Gregor	99 years
1931	Birthday of Alvin Lucier	94 years
1936	Birthday of Viktor Fortin	89 years
1959	Birthday of Anthony Girard	66 years
1967	Birthday of Deirdre Gribbin	58 years

15 May

1567	Birthday of Claudio Monteverdi	458 years
1577	Birthday of Sulpitia Cesis	448 years
1759	Birthday of Maria Theresia von Paradis	266 years
1763	Birthday of Franz Danzi	262 years
1795	Birthday of Adolph Bernhard Marx	230 years
1808	Birthday of Michael William Balfe	217 years
1808	Birthday of Gottfried Herrmann	217 years
1809	Birthday of Jean-Baptiste-Philémon de Cuvillon	216 years
1813	Birthday of Stephen Heller	212 years
1854	Birthday of Paul Pabst	171 years
1873	Birthday of Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin	152 years
1908	Birthday of Lars-Erik Larsson	117 years
1912	Birthday of Arthur Victor Berger	113 years
1925	Birthday of Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai	100 years
1936	Birthday of Jean Balissat	89 years
1936	Birthday of David Finko	89 years
1941	Birthday of Richard Edward Wilson	84 years
1947	Birthday of Renaud Gagneux	78 years
1964	Birthday of Ilio Volante	61 years
1977	Birthday of Bernd Richard Deutsch	48 years

16 May

1854	Birthday of Paul de Wailly	171 years
1875	Birthday of Vincas Bacevičius	150 years
1879	Birthday of Régine Wieniawski	146 years
1891	Birthday of Richard Tauber	134 years
1893	Birthday of Paul Amadeus Pisk	132 years
1893	Birthday of Ivan Wyschnegradsky	132 years
1897	Birthday of Walther Geiser	128 years
1912	Birthday of Helmut Riethmüller	113 years
1927	Birthday of Paul Angerer	98 years
1930	Birthday of Horst Ebenhöh	95 years
1930	Birthday of Friedrich Gulda	95 years
1931	Birthday of Donald Martino	94 years
1946	Birthday of Olav Anton Thommessen	79 years
1954	Birthday of Betty Olivero	71 years
1955	Birthday of Olli Kortegangas	70 years
1960	Birthday of Hanuš Bartoň	65 years

17 May

1732	Birthday of Francesco Pasquale Ricci	293 years
1753	Birthday of Johann Holzer	272 years
1755	Birthday of Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis	270 years
1843	Birthday of Gustave Sandré	182 years
1851	Birthday of Victor Bendix	174 years
1860	Birthday of August Stradal	165 years
1864	Birthday of John W. Boone	161 years
1865	Birthday of Martin Jacobi	160 years
1866	Birthday of Erik Satie	159 years
1867	Birthday of Stanley Hawley	158 years
1900	Birthday of Werner Bochmann	125 years
1901	Birthday of Werner Egk	124 years
1908	Birthday of Sigismund Toduţă	117 years
1923	Birthday of Peter Mennin	102 years
1936	Birthday of Philippe Boesmans	89 years
1943	Birthday of Joanna Bruzdowicz	82 years
1948	Birthday of Henry Fourès	77 years
1950	Birthday of Algirdas Martinaitis	75 years
1951	Birthday of Paul Amrod	74 years
1962	Birthday of Dieter Amman	63 years
1971	Birthday of Jason Eckardt	54 years

18 May

1616	Birthday of Johann Jakob Froberger	409 years
1744	Birthday of Joseph Beer	281 years
1830	Birthday of Karl Goldmark	195 years
1832	Birthday of Julius Zellner	193 years
1854	Birthday of Bernard Zweers	171 years
1860	Birthday of Mary Wurm	165 years
1875	Birthday of Guido Alberto Fano	150 years
1901	Birthday of Henri Sauguet	124 years
1902	Birthday of Meredith Willson	123 years
1905	Birthday of Theodor Berger	120 years
1905	Birthday of Eric Zeisl	120 years
1913	Birthday of Vassil Lolov	112 years
1938	Birthday of Youri Boutsko	87 years
1945	Birthday of André Chini	80 years
1948	Birthday of Mikko Heiniö	77 years
1960	Birthday of Matthias Drude	65 years
1996	Birthday of Yojo Christen	29 years
1996	Birthday of Yojo	29 years

19 May

1746	Birthday of John Frederick Peter	279 years
1839	Birthday of Alice Mary Smith	186 years
1878	Birthday of Adam Carse	147 years
1884	Birthday of Arthur Meulemans	141 years
1897	Birthday of Enrico Mainardi	128 years
1919	Birthday of Mircea Chiriac	106 years
1926	Birthday of Paul Cooper	99 years
1930	Birthday of Hans Kox	95 years
1933	Birthday of Antón García Abril	92 years
1939	Birthday of Tomasz Sikorski	86 years
1940	Birthday of František Gregor Emmert	85 years
1959	Birthday of Rolf Thomas Lorenz	66 years
1963	Birthday of Jörg Birkenkötter	62 years
1964	Birthday of Yassen Vodenitcharov	61 years

20 May

1856	Birthday of Helen Hopekirk	169 years
1915	Birthday of Gertraud Kaltenecker	110 years
1946	Birthday of Daniel Binelli	79 years
1946	Birthday of Mikhail Kokzhayev	79 years

21 May

1671	Birthday of Azzolino Della Ciaja	354 years
1765	Birthday of Minna Brandes	260 years
1822	Birthday of Uroš Krek	203 years
1845	Birthday of Jacques Rensburg	180 years
1899	Birthday of Mitja Nikisch	126 years
1912	Birthday of Lille Bror Söderlundh	113 years
1918	Birthday of Siegfried Barchet	107 years
1921	Birthday of Richard Rudolf Klein	104 years
1932	Birthday of Eugene Hartzell	93 years
1939	Birthday of Heinz Holliger	86 years

22 May

1762	Birthday of Georg Gottfried Müller	263 years
1802	Birthday of Joseph d'Ortigue	223 years
1813	Birthday of Richard Wagner	212 years
1820	Birthday of Alexander Ernst Fesca	205 years
1841	Birthday of Eduard Caudella	184 years
1850	Birthday of Johann Schrammel	175 years
1852	Birthday of Émile Sauret	173 years
1879	Birthday of Jean Cras	146 years
1913	Birthday of Nikita Bogoslovsky	112 years
1916	Birthday of Gordon Binkerd	109 years
1924	Birthday of Claude Ballif	101 years
1938	Birthday of Alain Gagnon	87 years
1939	Birthday of Árni Egilsson	86 years
1942	Birthday of Guy Bovet	83 years

23 May

1741	Birthday of Andrea Luca Lucchesi	284 years
1794	Birthday of Ignaz Moscheles	231 years
1837	Birthday of Józef Wieniawski	188 years
1848	Birthday of Josef Pembaur	177 years
1851	Birthday of Gustav Hecht	174 years
1866	Birthday of Percy Sherwood	159 years
1871	Birthday of Sigurd Lie	154 years
1877	Birthday of Willy Prager	148 years
1901	Birthday of Edmund Charles Rubbra	124 years
1906	Birthday of Hellmuth Christian Wollf	119 years
1912	Birthday of Jean Françaix	113 years
1926	Birthday of Wolfgang Marschner	99 years
1967	Birthday of Gregor Hübner	58 years

24 May

1582	Birthday of Giovan Battista Fergusio	443 years
1767	Birthday of Joseph Ignaz Schnabel	258 years
1781	Birthday of Louis-François Dauprat	244 years
1886	Birthday of Paul Paray	139 years
1896	Birthday of Johan Hye-Knudsen	129 years
1910	Birthday of Nils-Eric Foughstedt	115 years
1925	Birthday of Robert Saar	100 years
1941	Birthday of Konrad Boehmer	84 years
1952	Birthday of Slavko Šuklar	73 years
1953	Birthday of Allan Gordon Bell	72 years
1959	Birthday of Stefan Heucke	66 years

25 May

1572	Birthday of Moritz von Hessen-Kassel	453 years
1726	Birthday of Giuseppe Paolucci	299 years
1767	Birthday of Friedrich Eck	258 years
1873	Birthday of Archibald Joyce	152 years
1888	Birthday of Anatoly Alexandrov	137 years
1889	Birthday of Sverre Jordan	136 years
1902	Birthday of Helvi Leiviskä	123 years
1904	Birthday of Kurt Thomas	121 years
1912	Birthday of Albrecht Rosenstengel	113 years
1925	Birthday of Aldo Clementi	100 years
1928	Birthday of Frigyes Hidas	97 years
1950	Birthday of Enjott Schneider	75 years
1964	Birthday of Caspar Johannes Walter	61 years

26 May

1856	Birthday of George Templeton Strong	169 years
1890	Birthday of Samuil Feinberg	135 years
1893	Birthday of Eugène Goossens	132 years
1905	Birthday of Hans Holewa	120 years
1916	Birthday of Louis Thomas Hardin	109 years
1926	Birthday of Joseph Horovitz	99 years
1938	Birthday of William Bolcom	87 years
1941	Birthday of Imants Kalninš	84 years
1942	Birthday of Philip Bračanin	83 years
1948	Birthday of Alexander Rahbari	77 years
1949	Birthday of Harald Weiss	76 years
1958	Birthday of Howard Goodall	67 years

27 May

1584	Birthday of Michael Altenburg	441 years
1795	Birthday of Friedrich August Belcke	230 years
1799	Birthday of Jacques Fromental Halévy	226 years
1809	Birthday of Carl Ludwig Albert Banck	216 years
1822	Birthday of Joseph Joachim Raff	203 years
1884	Birthday of Max Brod	141 years
1888	Birthday of Louis Durey	137 years
1927	Birthday of Gerhard Kneifel	98 years
1928	Birthday of Thea Musgrave	97 years
1930	Birthday of Eino Tamberg	95 years
1940	Birthday of René Koering	85 years
1947	Birthday of Liana Alexandra	78 years
1963	Birthday of Jaakko Mäntyjärvi	62 years
1964	Birthday of Barbara Rettagliati	61 years
1966	Birthday of František Fiala	59 years
1970	Birthday of Laurent Mettraux	55 years

28 May

1710	Birthday of Thomas Augustine Arne	315 years
1779	Birthday of Thomas Moore	246 years
1780	Birthday of Franz Joseph Fröhlich	245 years
1799	Birthday of Ernst Köhler	226 years
1818	Birthday of Maxime Alkan	207 years
1841	Birthday of Giovanni Sgambati	184 years
1847	Birthday of Emanuel Faltis	178 years
1860	Birthday of Axel Gade	165 years
1883	Birthday of George Dyson	142 years
1889	Birthday of José Padilla Sánchez	136 years
1896	Birthday of Marius Monnikendam	129 years
1903	Birthday of Walter Goehr	122 years
1903	Birthday of Marguerite Monnot	122 years
1923	Birthday of György Ligeti	102 years
1923	Birthday of Jiří Válek	102 years
1924	Birthday of Mikhaïl Nosyrev	101 years
1927	Birthday of Bernhard Lewkovitch	98 years
1929	Birthday of Byong Kong Kim	96 years
1931	Birthday of Peter Westergaard	94 years
1936	Birthday of Maki Ishii	89 years
1964	Birthday of Sherif Mohie El Din	61 years

29 May

1860	Birthday of Isaac Albéniz	165 years
1873	Birthday of Rudolf Tobias	152 years
1890	Birthday of Francis de Bourgignon	135 years
1896	Birthday of Walter Abendroth	129 years
1897	Birthday of Erich Wolfgang Korngold	128 years
1922	Birthday of Iannis Xenakis	103 years
1928	Birthday of Josef Zilch	97 years
1936	Birthday of Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov	89 years
1937	Birthday of Peter Kolman	88 years
1937	Birthday of Irmin Schmidt	88 years
1938	Birthday of Helmut Neumann	87 years
1947	Birthday of Frangis Ali-Sade	78 years
1948	Birthday of Michael Berkeley	77 years
1955	Birthday of Pascal Dusapin	70 years

30 May

1714	Birthday of Carlo Ferrari	311 years
1714	Birthday of Johann Anton Kobrich	311 years
1797	Birthday of Johann Christian Lobe	228 years
1882	Birthday of Melcher Melchers	143 years
1883	Birthday of Riccardo Zandonai	142 years
1932	Birthday of Pauline Oliveros	93 years
1952	Birthday of Jacques Faubert	73 years

31 May

1656	Birthday of Marin Marais	369 years
1802	Birthday of Cesare Pugni	223 years
1804	Birthday of Louise Farrenc	221 years
1817	Birthday of Édouard Deldevez	208 years
1866	Birthday of Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov	159 years
1875	Birthday of Italo Montemezzi	150 years
1902	Birthday of Billy Mayerl	123 years
1904	Birthday of Hubert Clifford	121 years
1906	Birthday of Hans Schäuble	119 years
1914	Birthday of Akira Ifukube	111 years
1934	Birthday of Karl-Erik Welin	91 years
1943	Birthday of Helge Jung	82 years
1950	Birthday of Vivienne Olive	75 years
1954	Birthday of Anders Hillborg	71 years