1710 William Boyce
1739 Joseph Pouteau
1758 Benedikt Emanuel Schack
1822 Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide
1823 Richard Genee
1825 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura
1847 Ernst Franck, composer/conductor
1863 Mieczyslaw Soltys
1864 Ricardo Castro Herrera
1871 Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer ("Excelsior!" ..it's fun to exclaim..and it's a lovely overture)
1875 Erkki Gustav Melartin (his symphonies (six) are must-haves!)
1875 Walter Courvoisier
1877 Feliks Nowowiejski
1878 Ossip Gabrilovich
1887 Eubie Blake, US ragtime composer/pianist
1891 Joachim Stutschewsky
1897 Quincy Porter (still neglected American composer, his string quartets are especially fine)
1925 Marius Constant, composer/conductor
1927 John Buller
1938 Robert Frank Baksa (American composer, seriously neglected. His music for winds is lovely)
1954 Dieter Bohlen
Events:
1792 Domenic Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto" premieres in Vienna
1931 American composer Deems Taylor's opera "Peter Ibbetson" premieres at Met Opera, NYC
1964 Roger Sessions's Symphony No. 5 premieres
4 comments:
Robert Frank Baksa (American composer, seriously neglected. His music for winds is lovely)
I'm intrigued!
Cool illustration Tz, the boy is either stargazing or checking out your kist of bdays :)
Keep up the extraordinary work! I especially enjoy the photos/paintings that you add to each of these posts, you make it all very eclectic. Thank you
Rphus
Scraps I will post Baksa for you **when** I can find some, there is no doubt in my mind that those cds are
still stacked in one of dozens of cardboard boxes sealed with industrial-strength tape...
TZ
Hey Rphus, thank you for commenting! I love getting first-time comments :) Yep, I was pleased that the boy seems to be looking at the list; it was not intentional though I noticed it immediately w. a smile.
Thanks for the kind words friend!!
TZ
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