Friday, January 8, 2016

Birthdays for January 8th

Hi everyone. I only have time for today's birthdays:


1668 - Jean Gilles
1777 - Filippo Traetta, composer/musicologist
1779 - John White, English organist and violinist
1787 - Johann Ludwig Bohner,
1788 - Erik Drake
1792 - Lowell Mason, Medfield Mass, organist/composer
1812 - Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg
1812 - William Henry Holmes
1822 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti
1824 - Per August Olander
1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist/composer
1846 - Albert Cahen
1846 - William Wallace Gilchrist
1873 - Lucien Capet
1883 - Josue Teofilo Wilkes
1892 - Werner Wehrli
1896 - Jaromir Weinberger
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer and surrealist poet
1906 - Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter/guitarist
1911 - Andrej Ocenas
1912 - Rudolf G Escher
1914 - Charles Borromeo Mills
1922 - Abbey Simon, pianist
1924 - Antai Ribari
1924 - Benjamin Lees
1924 - Robert Starer,
1926 - Evelyn Lear, soprano
1926 - Jani Christou
1935 - Ian Bargh, jazz pianist and composer
1936 - Zdeněk Mácal
1937 - Robert Moran
1951 - Paul Dresher

4 comments:

Scraps said...

Scelsi!

Unknown said...

Some composers I have never heard before !!!
Thanks

Scraps said...

I hope you are all right....

DarkS said...

Hi Tzadik. I always check your blog for posts before any others - and I miss your 'gifts'.

I hope you are okay?