Birthdays for January 7th

There are so many great composers out there that we get the pleasure of knowing and loving during our lives. Proof of this abundance can be found everywhere - there is not a single day that passes without an important birthday (today's notable birthday is Francis Poulenc!)


1612 - Paul de La Pierre,
1634 - Adam Krieger
1710 - Josef Antonin Sehling
1842 - Johan Lindegren
1853 - Nikolai Arkas
1860 - Emanuil Manolov
1876 - William Yeates Hurlstone
1892 - Rudolf Moser, composer
1894 - Jose Rozo Contreras
1895 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist
1898 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster
1899 - Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc
1900 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor
1903 - Shalva Azmayparashvili
1903 - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov
1912 - Günter Wand, conductor
1917 - Ulysses Sipmson Kay
1921 - John Lanigan, tenor
1923 - Charles Russell Woolen
1935 - Noam Sheriff, composer
1935 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist
1935 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist
1938 - Paul Revere, American pianist
1939 - David Buchan, ethno-musicologist
1941 - Iona Brown, British violinist
1943 - Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor
1947 - David Porcelijn, Dutch composer/conductor

Poulenc going around, merrily