Birthdays

1 May

1582	Birthday of Marco da Gagliano	442 years
1635	Birthday of Daniel Daniélis	389 years
1775	Birthday of Sophia Giustina Dussek	249 years
1872	Birthday of Hugo Alfvén	152 years
1895	Birthday of Leo Sowerby	129 years
1899	Birthday of Jón Leifs	125 years
1902	Birthday of Joseph Rixner	122 years
1909	Birthday of George Melachrino	115 years
1912	Birthday of Felipe Padilla de León	112 years
1937	Birthday of Bo Nilsson	87 years
1939	Birthday of Victor Davies	85 years
1939	Birthday of David Loeb	85 years
1959	Birthday of Richard Dünser	65 years

2 May

1660	Birthday of Alessandro Scarlatti	364 years
1707	Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Barrière	317 years
1750	Birthday of Manuel Blasco de Nebra	274 years
1752	Birthday of Ludwig August Lebrun	272 years
1754	Birthday of Vicente Martín y Soler	270 years
1754	Birthday of Vicente Martín y Soler	270 years
1755	Birthday of Johann Ludwig Willing	269 years
1810	Birthday of Hans Christian Lumbye	214 years
1843	Birthday of Carl Michael Ziehrer	181 years
1846	Birthday of Zygmunt Noskowski	178 years
1857	Birthday of Frederic Cliffe	167 years
1862	Birthday of Marie François Maurice Emmanuel	162 years
1865	Birthday of Enric Morera i Viura	159 years
1901	Birthday of Lotte Backes	123 years
1905	Birthday of Alan Rawsthorne	119 years
1906	Birthday of Wilhelm Stollenwerk	118 years
1915	Birthday of Jan Hanuš	109 years
1925	Birthday of Svatopluk Havelka	99 years
1954	Birthday of Elliot Goldenthal	70 years

3 May

1649	Birthday of Johann Valentin Meder	375 years
1729	Birthday of Florian Leopold Gassmann	295 years
1737	Birthday of Friedrich Schwindl	287 years
1886	Birthday of Marcel Dupré	138 years
1929	Birthday of Hans Stadlmair	95 years
1934	Birthday of Božidar Kos	90 years
1934	Birthday of Georg Kröll	90 years
1939	Birthday of Jonathan Harvey	85 years
1959	Birthday of Shigeru Kan-no	65 years
1960	Birthday of Steffen Schleiermacher	64 years

4 May

1744	Birthday of Marianna von Martines	280 years
1805	Birthday of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann	219 years
1860	Birthday of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek	164 years
1867	Birthday of Dynam-Victor Fumet	157 years
1904	Birthday of León Zuckert	120 years
1905	Birthday of Mátyás Seiber	119 years
1924	Birthday of Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva	100 years
1937	Birthday of Hans Ulrich Lehmann	87 years
1965	Birthday of Seppo Pohjola	59 years

5 May

1666	Birthday of Johann Heinrich Buttstett	358 years
1680	Birthday of Giuseppe Porsile	344 years
1708	Birthday of Johann Adolph Scheibe	316 years
1749	Birthday of Jean-Frédéric Edelmann	275 years
1819	Birthday of Stanislav Moniuszko	205 years
1848	Birthday of Adalbert von Goldschmidt	176 years
1854	Birthday of Antonio Smareglia	170 years
1869	Birthday of Hans Pfitzner	155 years
1885	Birthday of Agustín Barrios Mangoré	139 years
1894	Birthday of Gertrud Schweizer	130 years
1906	Birthday of Waldemar Bloch	118 years
1907	Birthday of Yoritsune Matsudaira	117 years
1916	Birthday of Veli Mukhatov	108 years
1936	Birthday of Patrick Gowers	88 years
1952	Birthday of Maia Ciobanu	72 years
1975	Birthday of Gerald Resch	49 years

6 May

1649	Birthday of Cataldo Amodei	375 years
1696	Birthday of Johann Daniel Hardt	328 years
1794	Birthday of Carl Arnold	230 years
1814	Birthday of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst	210 years
1821	Birthday of Emilie Holmberg	203 years
1858	Birthday of Georges Adolphe Hüe	166 years
1859	Birthday of Ernst Hermann Seyffardt	165 years
1882	Birthday of Georgi Atanasov	142 years
1898	Birthday of Walter Simon Huber	126 years
1908	Birthday of Necil Käzim Akses	116 years
1913	Birthday of Gyula Dávid	111 years
1945	Birthday of Victoria Bond	79 years
1953	Birthday of Peter Child	71 years
1953	Birthday of Ivan Fedele	71 years
1960	Birthday of Kamran Ince	64 years
1960	Birthday of Yekaterina Chemberdzhi	64 years

7 May

1704	Birthday of Carl Heinrich Graun	320 years
1745	Birthday of Carl Stamitz	279 years
1756	Birthday of Thomas Linley	268 years
1759	Birthday of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach	265 years
1833	Birthday of Johannes Brahms	191 years
1840	Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	184 years
1880	Birthday of Karl Bleyle	144 years
1889	Birthday of Lou Koster	135 years
1901	Birthday of Marcel Poot	123 years
1908	Birthday of Joseph Beer	116 years
1924	Birthday of Peter Welffens	100 years
1934	Birthday of Heinz Marti	90 years
1936	Birthday of Cornelius Cardew	88 years
1947	Birthday of Milan Slavický	77 years
1950	Birthday of Philip Lane	74 years

8 May

1742	Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz	282 years
1820	Birthday of Ernst Otto Toller	204 years
1844	Birthday of Hermann Grädener	180 years
1893	Birthday of Charles Williams	131 years
1901	Birthday of Ernst Schiffmann	123 years
1933	Birthday of Albert Markov	91 years
1934	Birthday of Jan Paul Nagel	90 years
1936	Birthday of Henning Frederichs	88 years
1945	Birthday of Keith Jarrett	79 years
1950	Birthday of Lepo Sumera	74 years
1955	Birthday of Denys Bouliane	69 years
1965	Birthday of Thierry Escaich	59 years

9 May

1740	Birthday of Giovanni Paisiello	284 years
1814	Birthday of Adolf Henselt	210 years
1855	Birthday of Julius Röntgen	169 years
1859	Birthday of Richard Mandl	165 years
1865	Birthday of August de Boeck	159 years
1904	Birthday of Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling	120 years
1941	Birthday of Gérard Zinsstag	83 years
1947	Birthday of Peter Planyavsky	77 years
1954	Birthday of Olga Magidenko	70 years

10 May

1697	Birthday of Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder	327 years
1705	Birthday of Gallus Zeiler	319 years
1811	Birthday of Josef von Wenusch	213 years
1874	Birthday of Hugo Leonard	150 years
1877	Birthday of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár	147 years
1887	Birthday of August Pepöck	137 years
1888	Birthday of Max Steiner	136 years
1894	Birthday of Dimitri Tiomkin	130 years
1898	Birthday of Herbert Elwell	126 years
1912	Birthday of Erik Jørgensen	112 years
1916	Birthday of Milton Babbitt	108 years
1929	Birthday of Dinos Constantinides	95 years
1942	Birthday of Ingram Marshall	82 years
1946	Birthday of Ulrich Stranz	78 years
1964	Birthday of Mark André	60 years
1969	Birthday of Wajahat Khan	55 years

11 May

1791	Birthday of Jan Václav Voříšek	233 years
1791	Birthday of Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek	233 years
1835	Birthday of Heinrich Freiherr von Bach	189 years
1835	Birthday of Heinrich Molbe	189 years
1855	Birthday of Anatoly Konstantinovich Liadov	169 years
1859	Birthday of Karl Kapeller	165 years
1861	Birthday of Anna Teichmüller	163 years
1879	Birthday of Manuel Martinez-Sobral	145 years
1881	Birthday of Jan van Gilse	143 years
1882	Birthday of Joseph Marx	142 years
1895	Birthday of William Grant Still	129 years
1896	Birthday of Josip Slavenski	128 years
1909	Birthday of Herbert Murrill	115 years
1943	Birthday of Tania Léon	81 years
1948	Birthday of Frano Parać	76 years
1954	Birthday of Judith Weir	70 years
1956	Birthday of Marc Matthys	68 years
1969	Birthday of Helmut Schmidinger	55 years

12 May

1703	Birthday of Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer	321 years
1739	Birthday of Johann Baptist Vanhal	285 years
1754	Birthday of Franz Anton Hoffmeister	270 years
1755	Birthday of Giovanni Battista Viotti	269 years
1824	Birthday of Emile Steinkühler	200 years
1842	Birthday of Jules Massenet	182 years
1845	Birthday of Gabriel Fauré	179 years
1865	Birthday of Eduardo di Capua	159 years
1880	Birthday of Carl Mennicke	144 years
1886	Birthday of Hermann Grabner	138 years
1900	Birthday of Bruno Henze	124 years
1903	Birthday of Lennox Berkeley	121 years
1941	Birthday of Vratislav Petr Černík	83 years
1942	Birthday of Carl van Wyk	82 years
1958	Birthday of Joschi Schumann	66 years

13 May

1807	Birthday of Karl Eduard Hering	217 years
1842	Birthday of Arthur Sullivan	182 years
1852	Birthday of Sigismond Blumenfeld	172 years
1859	Birthday of August Enna	165 years
1866	Birthday of Ottokar Nováček	158 years
1886	Birthday of Joseph Achron	138 years
1886	Birthday of Albert Fébvre-Longeray	138 years
1891	Birthday of Craig Sellar Lang	133 years
1929	Birthday of Will Eisma	95 years
1935	Birthday of Nigel Butterley	89 years
1937	Birthday of Gerhard Tittel	87 years
1949	Birthday of Piotr Moss	75 years
1951	Birthday of Guus Janssen	73 years
1955	Birthday of Xiaoyong Chen	69 years

14 May

1652	Birthday of Johann Philipp Förtsch	372 years
1707	Birthday of António Teixeira	317 years
1752	Birthday of Juliane Benda	272 years
1769	Birthday of Johann Georg Hermann Voigt	255 years
1812	Birthday of Emilie Mayer	212 years
1883	Birthday of Joan Manén y Planas	141 years
1885	Birthday of Otto Klemperer	139 years
1891	Birthday of Egon Kornauth	133 years
1892	Birthday of Arthur Lourié	132 years
1892	Birthday of Felix Petyrek	132 years
1900	Birthday of Leo Smit	124 years
1902	Birthday of Lucija Garuta	122 years
1911	Birthday of Hans Vogt	113 years
1917	Birthday of Lou Harrison	107 years
1924	Birthday of Joly Braga Santos	100 years
1926	Birthday of Richard Giez	98 years
1926	Birthday of Čestmír Gregor	98 years
1931	Birthday of Alvin Lucier	93 years
1936	Birthday of Viktor Fortin	88 years
1959	Birthday of Anthony Girard	65 years
1967	Birthday of Deirdre Gribbin	57 years

15 May

1567	Birthday of Claudio Monteverdi	457 years
1577	Birthday of Sulpitia Cesis	447 years
1759	Birthday of Maria Theresia von Paradis	265 years
1763	Birthday of Franz Danzi	261 years
1795	Birthday of Adolph Bernhard Marx	229 years
1808	Birthday of Michael William Balfe	216 years
1808	Birthday of Gottfried Herrmann	216 years
1809	Birthday of Jean-Baptiste-Philémon de Cuvillon	215 years
1813	Birthday of Stephen Heller	211 years
1854	Birthday of Paul Pabst	170 years
1873	Birthday of Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin	151 years
1908	Birthday of Lars-Erik Larsson	116 years
1912	Birthday of Arthur Victor Berger	112 years
1925	Birthday of Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai	99 years
1936	Birthday of Jean Balissat	88 years
1936	Birthday of David Finko	88 years
1941	Birthday of Richard Edward Wilson	83 years
1947	Birthday of Renaud Gagneux	77 years
1964	Birthday of Ilio Volante	60 years
1977	Birthday of Bernd Richard Deutsch	47 years

16 May

1854	Birthday of Paul de Wailly	170 years
1875	Birthday of Vincas Bacevičius	149 years
1879	Birthday of Régine Wieniawski	145 years
1891	Birthday of Richard Tauber	133 years
1893	Birthday of Paul Amadeus Pisk	131 years
1893	Birthday of Ivan Wyschnegradsky	131 years
1897	Birthday of Walther Geiser	127 years
1912	Birthday of Helmut Riethmüller	112 years
1927	Birthday of Paul Angerer	97 years
1930	Birthday of Horst Ebenhöh	94 years
1930	Birthday of Friedrich Gulda	94 years
1931	Birthday of Donald Martino	93 years
1946	Birthday of Olav Anton Thommessen	78 years
1954	Birthday of Betty Olivero	70 years
1955	Birthday of Olli Kortegangas	69 years
1960	Birthday of Hanuš Bartoň	64 years

17 May

1732	Birthday of Francesco Pasquale Ricci	292 years
1753	Birthday of Johann Holzer	271 years
1755	Birthday of Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis	269 years
1843	Birthday of Gustave Sandré	181 years
1851	Birthday of Victor Bendix	173 years
1860	Birthday of August Stradal	164 years
1864	Birthday of John W. Boone	160 years
1865	Birthday of Martin Jacobi	159 years
1866	Birthday of Erik Satie	158 years
1867	Birthday of Stanley Hawley	157 years
1900	Birthday of Werner Bochmann	124 years
1901	Birthday of Werner Egk	123 years
1908	Birthday of Sigismund Toduţă	116 years
1923	Birthday of Peter Mennin	101 years
1936	Birthday of Philippe Boesmans	88 years
1943	Birthday of Joanna Bruzdowicz	81 years
1948	Birthday of Henry Fourès	76 years
1950	Birthday of Algirdas Martinaitis	74 years
1951	Birthday of Paul Amrod	73 years
1962	Birthday of Dieter Amman	62 years
1971	Birthday of Jason Eckardt	53 years

18 May

1616	Birthday of Johann Jakob Froberger	408 years
1744	Birthday of Joseph Beer	280 years
1830	Birthday of Karl Goldmark	194 years
1832	Birthday of Julius Zellner	192 years
1854	Birthday of Bernard Zweers	170 years
1860	Birthday of Mary Wurm	164 years
1875	Birthday of Guido Alberto Fano	149 years
1901	Birthday of Henri Sauguet	123 years
1902	Birthday of Meredith Willson	122 years
1905	Birthday of Theodor Berger	119 years
1905	Birthday of Eric Zeisl	119 years
1913	Birthday of Vassil Lolov	111 years
1938	Birthday of Youri Boutsko	86 years
1945	Birthday of André Chini	79 years
1948	Birthday of Mikko Heiniö	76 years
1960	Birthday of Matthias Drude	64 years
1996	Birthday of Yojo Christen	28 years
1996	Birthday of Yojo	28 years

19 May

1746	Birthday of John Frederick Peter	278 years
1839	Birthday of Alice Mary Smith	185 years
1878	Birthday of Adam Carse	146 years
1884	Birthday of Arthur Meulemans	140 years
1897	Birthday of Enrico Mainardi	127 years
1919	Birthday of Mircea Chiriac	105 years
1926	Birthday of Paul Cooper	98 years
1930	Birthday of Hans Kox	94 years
1933	Birthday of Antón García Abril	91 years
1939	Birthday of Tomasz Sikorski	85 years
1940	Birthday of František Gregor Emmert	84 years
1959	Birthday of Rolf Thomas Lorenz	65 years
1963	Birthday of Jörg Birkenkötter	61 years
1964	Birthday of Yassen Vodenitcharov	60 years

20 May

1856	Birthday of Helen Hopekirk	168 years
1915	Birthday of Gertraud Kaltenecker	109 years
1946	Birthday of Daniel Binelli	78 years
1946	Birthday of Mikhail Kokzhayev	78 years

21 May

1671	Birthday of Azzolino Della Ciaja	353 years
1765	Birthday of Minna Brandes	259 years
1822	Birthday of Uroš Krek	202 years
1899	Birthday of Mitja Nikisch	125 years
1912	Birthday of Lille Bror Söderlundh	112 years
1918	Birthday of Siegfried Barchet	106 years
1921	Birthday of Richard Rudolf Klein	103 years
1932	Birthday of Eugene Hartzell	92 years
1939	Birthday of Heinz Holliger	85 years

22 May

1762	Birthday of Georg Gottfried Müller	262 years
1802	Birthday of Joseph d'Ortigue	222 years
1813	Birthday of Richard Wagner	211 years
1820	Birthday of Alexander Ernst Fesca	204 years
1841	Birthday of Eduard Caudella	183 years
1850	Birthday of Johann Schrammel	174 years
1852	Birthday of Émile Sauret	172 years
1879	Birthday of Jean Cras	145 years
1913	Birthday of Nikita Bogoslovsky	111 years
1916	Birthday of Gordon Binkerd	108 years
1924	Birthday of Claude Ballif	100 years
1938	Birthday of Alain Gagnon	86 years
1939	Birthday of Árni Egilsson	85 years
1942	Birthday of Guy Bovet	82 years

23 May

1741	Birthday of Andrea Luca Lucchesi	283 years
1794	Birthday of Ignaz Moscheles	230 years
1837	Birthday of Józef Wieniawski	187 years
1848	Birthday of Josef Pembaur	176 years
1851	Birthday of Gustav Hecht	173 years
1866	Birthday of Percy Sherwood	158 years
1871	Birthday of Sigurd Lie	153 years
1877	Birthday of Willy Prager	147 years
1901	Birthday of Edmund Charles Rubbra	123 years
1906	Birthday of Hellmuth Christian Wollf	118 years
1912	Birthday of Jean Françaix	112 years
1926	Birthday of Wolfgang Marschner	98 years
1967	Birthday of Gregor Hübner	57 years

24 May

1582	Birthday of Giovan Battista Fergusio	442 years
1767	Birthday of Joseph Ignaz Schnabel	257 years
1781	Birthday of Louis-François Dauprat	243 years
1886	Birthday of Paul Paray	138 years
1896	Birthday of Johan Hye-Knudsen	128 years
1910	Birthday of Nils-Eric Foughstedt	114 years
1925	Birthday of Robert Saar	99 years
1941	Birthday of Konrad Boehmer	83 years
1952	Birthday of Slavko Šuklar	72 years
1953	Birthday of Allan Gordon Bell	71 years
1959	Birthday of Stefan Heucke	65 years

25 May

1572	Birthday of Moritz von Hessen-Kassel	452 years
1726	Birthday of Giuseppe Paolucci	298 years
1767	Birthday of Friedrich Eck	257 years
1873	Birthday of Archibald Joyce	151 years
1888	Birthday of Anatoly Alexandrov	136 years
1889	Birthday of Sverre Jordan	135 years
1904	Birthday of Kurt Thomas	120 years
1912	Birthday of Albrecht Rosenstengel	112 years
1925	Birthday of Aldo Clementi	99 years
1928	Birthday of Frigyes Hidas	96 years
1950	Birthday of Enjott Schneider	74 years
1964	Birthday of Caspar Johannes Walter	60 years

26 May

1856	Birthday of George Templeton Strong	168 years
1890	Birthday of Samuil Feinberg	134 years
1893	Birthday of Eugène Goossens	131 years
1905	Birthday of Hans Holewa	119 years
1916	Birthday of Louis Thomas Hardin	108 years
1926	Birthday of Joseph Horovitz	98 years
1938	Birthday of William Bolcom	86 years
1941	Birthday of Imants Kalninš	83 years
1942	Birthday of Philip Bračanin	82 years
1948	Birthday of Alexander Rahbari	76 years
1949	Birthday of Harald Weiss	75 years
1958	Birthday of Howard Goodall	66 years

27 May

1584	Birthday of Michael Altenburg	440 years
1795	Birthday of Friedrich August Belcke	229 years
1799	Birthday of Jacques Fromental Halévy	225 years
1809	Birthday of Carl Ludwig Albert Banck	215 years
1822	Birthday of Joseph Joachim Raff	202 years
1884	Birthday of Max Brod	140 years
1888	Birthday of Louis Durey	136 years
1927	Birthday of Gerhard Kneifel	97 years
1928	Birthday of Thea Musgrave	96 years
1930	Birthday of Eino Tamberg	94 years
1940	Birthday of René Koering	84 years
1947	Birthday of Liana Alexandra	77 years
1963	Birthday of Jaakko Mäntyjärvi	61 years
1964	Birthday of Barbara Rettagliati	60 years
1966	Birthday of František Fiala	58 years
1970	Birthday of Laurent Mettraux	54 years

28 May

1710	Birthday of Thomas Augustine Arne	314 years
1779	Birthday of Thomas Moore	245 years
1780	Birthday of Franz Joseph Fröhlich	244 years
1799	Birthday of Ernst Köhler	225 years
1818	Birthday of Maxime Alkan	206 years
1841	Birthday of Giovanni Sgambati	183 years
1847	Birthday of Emanuel Faltis	177 years
1860	Birthday of Axel Gade	164 years
1883	Birthday of George Dyson	141 years
1889	Birthday of José Padilla Sánchez	135 years
1896	Birthday of Marius Monnikendam	128 years
1903	Birthday of Walter Goehr	121 years
1903	Birthday of Marguerite Monnot	121 years
1923	Birthday of György Ligeti	101 years
1923	Birthday of Jiří Válek	101 years
1924	Birthday of Mikhaïl Nosyrev	100 years
1927	Birthday of Bernhard Lewkovitch	97 years
1929	Birthday of Byong Kong Kim	95 years
1931	Birthday of Peter Westergaard	93 years
1936	Birthday of Maki Ishii	88 years
1964	Birthday of Sherif Mohie El Din	60 years

29 May

1860	Birthday of Isaac Albéniz	164 years
1873	Birthday of Rudolf Tobias	151 years
1890	Birthday of Francis de Bourgignon	134 years
1896	Birthday of Walter Abendroth	128 years
1897	Birthday of Erich Wolfgang Korngold	127 years
1922	Birthday of Iannis Xenakis	102 years
1928	Birthday of Josef Zilch	96 years
1936	Birthday of Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov	88 years
1937	Birthday of Peter Kolman	87 years
1937	Birthday of Irmin Schmidt	87 years
1938	Birthday of Helmut Neumann	86 years
1947	Birthday of Frangis Ali-Sade	77 years
1948	Birthday of Michael Berkeley	76 years
1955	Birthday of Pascal Dusapin	69 years

30 May

1714	Birthday of Carlo Ferrari	310 years
1714	Birthday of Johann Anton Kobrich	310 years
1797	Birthday of Johann Christian Lobe	227 years
1882	Birthday of Melcher Melchers	142 years
1883	Birthday of Riccardo Zandonai	141 years
1932	Birthday of Pauline Oliveros	92 years
1952	Birthday of Jacques Faubert	72 years

31 May

1656	Birthday of Marin Marais	368 years
1802	Birthday of Cesare Pugni	222 years
1804	Birthday of Louise Farrenc	220 years
1817	Birthday of Édouard Deldevez	207 years
1866	Birthday of Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov	158 years
1875	Birthday of Italo Montemezzi	149 years
1902	Birthday of Billy Mayerl	122 years
1904	Birthday of Hubert Clifford	120 years
1906	Birthday of Hans Schäuble	118 years
1914	Birthday of Akira Ifukube	110 years
1934	Birthday of Karl-Erik Welin	90 years
1943	Birthday of Helge Jung	81 years
1950	Birthday of Vivienne Olive	74 years
1954	Birthday of Anders Hillborg	70 years