Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Birthdays for January 6th

I have been meaning to do a list of composer's birthdays each day since I started this blog. I am grateful that the pardoning saying 'better late than never' exists, this way I don't have to come up with it. I can move on to the list ;)






This day in musical history:

1486 - Martin Agricola, composer/cantor
1683 - Francois de La Croix
1692 - Rynoldus Popma van Oevering
1695 - Giuseppe Sammartini
1702 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu
1728 - Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier
1791 - Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer
1794 - Kaspar Masek
1798 - Ferdinand Simon Gassner
1803 - Henri Herz
1807 - Ludwig Erk
1838 - Max Bruch
1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, pianist/composer
1856 - Giuseppe Martucci
1861 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren
1867 - Georges Martin Witkowski
1868 - Vittorio Monti
1872 - Alexander Scriabin
1873 - Karl Straube, German organist/conductor
1880 - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg
1900 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud
1902 - Mark Brunswick
1902 - Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte
1903 - Boris Blacher
1903 - Maurice Abravanel, conductor
1908 - Menachem Avidom
1911 - Yannis Andreou Papaioannou
1914 - Arnold Richardson
1916 - Philip Bezanson
1920 - Earl Kim
1922 - Finn Einar Mortensen
1949 - Richard Horowitz

If I have time late tonight I will post a few bday boys (Blacher, Scriabin..)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Thank you !
Love from Việt Nam

Tzadik said...

You are welcome nhac!

TZ