Jan 9th:
1574 - Christoph Buel
1620 - Johann Weichmann
1748 - Stefan Paluselli
1815 - William Jackson of Masham, English composer and organist
1820 - Pavel Krizkovsky
1839 - John Knowles Paine
1843 - Christiaan A Ulder, Curacao
1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani
1856 - Stevan Mokranjac
1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor
1896 - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor
1897 - Luis Gianneo
1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner
1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1909 - Herva Nelli, soprano
1910 - Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader
1914 - Kenny 'Klook' Clarke, jazz/drummer, composer
1916 - Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (Don Rickles Show), born in Brooklyn, New York
1921 - Seymour Barab
1940 - Barbara Buczek
Jan 10th:
1683 - Gasparo Visconti
1701 - Johann Caspar Simon
1760 - Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg
1766 - Louis Massonneau
1854 - Peter Gast
1884 - James Philip Dunn
1886 - Jose Antonio de Donostia
1888 - Emile van Bosch, Dutch revue/operetta-artist
1897 - Albert Moeschinger
1903 - Jean Morel, Abbeville France, conductor
1904 - Jesus Garcia Leoz
1909 - Rudolf Kubin
1910 - Jean Martinon, conductor/composer
1915 - Dean Dixon, Zug Switzerland, conductor
1924 - Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer
1928 - Wallace Berry
1929 - Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
1933 - Akira Miyoshi
1935 - Georg Katzer
1935 - Sherrill Milnes, Hinsdale Illinois, baritone
1948 - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
1961 - Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, concert violinist
Jan 11th:
1703 - Columban Praelisauer
1727 - Franz Sebastian Haindl
1746 - Frantisek Adam Mica
1750 - Johann Jakob Walder
1801 - John Lodge Ellerton
1856 - Christian August Sinding
1872 - Paul Graener
1875 - Reinhold Gliere
1880 - Rudolf T Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer
1894 - Jaroslav Vogel, Czech composer and conductor
1902 - Maurice Durufle, French organist/composer
1906 - Johannes Paul Thilman
1909 - Gunnar Johnsen Berg
1910 - Izler Solomon, St Paul, Minn, conductor
1918 - Albert Weisser
1926 - Alexander Gibson, conductor
1929 - Wanda Wilkomirska, Warsaw, Poland, violinist
1940 - Mark DeVoto
1943 - William Albert Penn
1944 - York Georg Holler
1970 - Joy Nilo, Filipino Composer
Jan 12th:
1674 - Reinhard Keiser
1711 - Gaetano Latilla
1715 - Jacques Duphly
1730 - Johann Joachim Christoph Bode
1737 - Brizio Petrucci
1804 - Hippolyte Monpou
1821 - Nikolai Afanisev
1837 - Adolf Jensen
1837 - Carlos Troyer
1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
1884 - Louis Horst
1888 - Claude Delvincourt
1898 - Jose Forns y Cuadras
1899 - Pierre Bernac, French baritone
1900 - Vaino Hannikainen
1916 - William Pleeth, British cellist
1917 - Walter Hendl, West New York NJ, conductor
1921 - Leo Smit, pianist/composer
1925 - Laurentiu Profeta
1926 - Morton Feldman
1927 - Salvatore Martirano, composer
1937 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone
1944 - Viktoria Postnikova, pianist
1949 - Kentaro Haneda
Jan 13th:
1683 - Johann Christoph Graupner
1690 - Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel
1727 - Johann Christoph Schmugel
1734 - Luca Sorkocevic
1778 - Anton Fischer
1788 - Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz
1824 - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski
1850 - Leon Francis Victor Caron
1866 - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
1870 - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor
1893 - Jan Evangelista Zelinka
1895 - Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
1898 - Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone
1900 - Yasuji Kiyose
1904 - Richard Addinsell
1906 - Maxime Jacob
1917 - Felix Guerro Diaz
1923 - Danil Shafran, cellist
1929 - Joseph Anthony Pass, guitarist
1936 - Ami Maayani
1936 - Renato Bruson, baritone
1938 - Paavo Johannes Heininen
1943 - William Duckworth
1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist
*1945 - Prokofiev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
Jan 14th:
1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius
1566 - Angelo Notari
1655 - Angelo Predieri
1722 - Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer
1751 - Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter
1780 - Francois-Joseph Dizi
1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian musicologist
1804 - John Park
1812 - Carl Gradener
1814 - Johannes Josephus Viotta
1819 - Fabio Campana
1822 - Nicholas Mori
1824 - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic
1834 - William Cleaver Francis Robinson
1839 - Emil Bohn
1844 - Clara Kathleen Rogers
1850 - Jean de Reszke, (Jan Mieczyslaw), Polish tenor
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist
1889 - Vincenzo Davico
1906 - Walter Knape
1911 - George Amadee Tremblay
1911 - Helmut Degen
1921 - Mark Lawrence, pianist
1925 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone
1927 - Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist
1930 - Edgar Sergeyi Hovhanesyan (Hovhanessian)
1931 - Juraj Pospisil
1943 - Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
1972 - Predrag Gosta, Yugoslav-born conductor
1785 - Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10)
1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" premieres in Rome
1925 - Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" premieres in Berlin
1955 - Heitor Villa-Lobos's 8th Symphony premieres in Philadelphia
Jan 15th:
1730 - John Malchair
1733 - Joseph Lederer
1742 - Eugene Godecharle
1845 - Heinrich Vogl
1871 - Bertram Shapleigh
1878 - Johanna Muller-Hermann
1892 - Frank Hutchens
1896 - Jacobo Ficher
1906 - Rezso Kokai
1908 - Roberta Bitgood
1909 - Elie Siegmeister
1909 - Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer
1913 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer
1925 - Ruth Slenczynska, pianist
1927 - Francis Routh
1929 - Eva Badura-Skoda
1931 - Murad Kazhlayev
1932 - Enrique Raxach
1935 - Malcolm Frager, pianist
1939 - Charles Christopher Steel
1960 - Aaron Jay Kernis
1964 - Osmo Tapio Räihälä
1785 - Mozart's string quartet opus 10 premiere
1866 - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach" premieres in Prague
1895 - Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres in St. Petersburg
Jan 16th:
1672 - Francesco Mancini
1728 - Niccolo Piccinni
1804 - Karl August Krebs
1815 - Adolph Trube
1868 - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira
1872 - Henri-Paul Busser
1893 - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist
1902 - Evelyn Levine
1904 - Max Vredenburg
1905 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor
1914 - Roger Wagner, American choral musician
1919 - Bob Boucher, Kent Ohio, orchestra leader
1928 - Ezra Sims
1928 - Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano
1929 - Tage Nielsen
1934 - Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
1934 - Richard Wernick
1943 - Brian Ferneyhough
1943 - Gavin Bryars
1959 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer (have always loved Sade)
Jan 17th:
1517 - Antonio Scandello
1545 - Antonio Pace
1574 - Robert Fludd
1659 - Antonio Veracini
1712 - John Stanley
1719 - Jean-Joseph Vade
1728 - Johann Gottfried Muthel
1733 - Thomas Linley the elder, English composer and tenor
1734 - Francois-Joseph Gossec
1745 - Nicolas Roze
1769 - Ole Andreas Lindeman
1828 - Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist
1835 - Johan Filip von Schantz
1836 - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte
1850 - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev
1857 - Wilhelm Kienzl
1863 - Henry Charles Tonking
1873 - Francois Rasse
1877 - Hans Jelmoli
1896 - Harry Reser, Ohio, orchestra leader
1901 - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky
1907 - Henk H Badings
1911 - Hermann Pfrogner, Austria, musicologist
1912 - Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov
1916 - Joel Herron, orchestra leader
1917 - Oskar Morawetz
1917 - Ulyses Simpson Kay
1925 - Annie Delorie, Dutch opera singer
1927 - Donald Erb
1928 - Jean Barraqué
1930 - Robert Ceely
1931 - Frederick Alfred Fox
1934 - Sydney Phillip Hodkinson
1941 - Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
1947 - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer
1948 - Anne Queffélec, French pianist
1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto
1953 - Sheila Hutchinson, rocker
1975 - Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher) *One of my absolute favorite electronic artists/musicians/composers/producers. He is one of the most brilliant electric
bass players and has released an album of music for solo electric bass.
*1962 - Roy Harris's 8th Symphony, premieres in San Francisco
Jan 18th:
1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco
1732 - Jean-Guillain Cardon
1751 - Ferdinand Kauer
1793 - William Henry Havergal
1817 - Jacques Gregoir
1835 - Caesar A. Cui
1840 - Ernst Rudorff
1841 - Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier
1856 - John Hyatt Brewer
1861 - Raymond Huntington Woodman
1893 - John Lawrence Seymour
1903 - Berthold Goldschmidt
1907 - Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera)
1911 - Gabor Darvas
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter
1918 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
1919 - Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas
1922 - Yehezkiel Braun
*1930 - Shostakovitch's opera "The Nose" premieres in Leningrad
