Composers dead on your birthday...

[Florestan]

December 13

Jan Campanus

Marianne von Martinez

George Frederick Bristow

Amintore Galli

Knut Algot Hakanson

Eleanor Everest Freer

Cornelius Cardew

Never ever heard about them. 

[kyjo]

Feb. 23:
Johannes Crüger (1662)
George Muffat (1704)
John Alcock (1806)
Woldemar Bargiel (1897)
Alexander Iljynski (1920)
Antonio Pasculli (1924)
Edward Elgar (1934)
Henry Bickford Pasmore (1944)
Ruth Gipps (1999)

[Brian]

Paul Creston.

That's it. He's the only one.

[Mirror Image]

March 10th -

Leopold Samuel
Bill Hopkins
Quinto Maganini
Mabel Wheeler Daniels
Arthur Hervey
Horace Wadham Nicholl
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke
Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann
Teodulo Mabellini
Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul
Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles
Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini
Josepf Francois Snel
Muzio Clementi
Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt
Diogo Diaz Melgaz

[mahler10th]

Bernard Herrmann   

[Gurn Blanston]

All the ones I like were dead on my birthday...   

[DavidW]

Nobody of significance.  Wait if I kill Karl on my next birthday that will change...

[petrarch]

Cornelius Cardew

Never ever heard about them. 

I actually like Cardew's Treatise... but you would need to be into pointillistic, chance and graphic score music to appreciate it.

He is well-known for having been the "ghost composer" of Stockhausen's Carré, having assisted him in a number of important works, and also for his left-wing leanings (see e.g. Stockhausen serves imperialism, easily found online).

[Gurn Blanston]

December 13

Marianne von Martinez


Never ever heard about them. 

Just further proof that you haven't read my blog, in case it was needed.     

http://www.fjhaydn.com/my-blog/2013/07/1753-54-making-connections.html

She was Haydn's first known student of voice and keyboard, he took her over from Metastasio when she was 8 or 9. She turned out to be a real talent, was friends with Mozart who used to play 4-hands with her. 

December 13. Not a bad day, missed me by 1.

[North Star]

Nobody of significance.  Wait if I kill Karl on my next birthday that will change...

I'm sure he will be delighted of your appreciation 

October 15th:
1900 – Zdeněk Fibich (b. 1850)
1955 – Fumio Hayasaka (b. 1914)
1964 – Cole Porter (b. 1891)
1988 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (b. 1892)

Bernard Herrmann   

You're sad because he died, or because you don't like his music, John?

[Madiel]

Henry VIII.  So that's Greensleeves allegedly taken care of.

Also Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and Reynaldo Hahn.

[AnthonyAthletic]

July the 11th was a busy year 

1768 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, 66
1781 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, 60
1826 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, 57
1937 - George Gershwin, 38
1950 - Timotei Popovici, 79
1973 - Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, 72
1980 - Boleslaw Woytowicz, 80
1984 - Karel Mengelberg, 81

[SonicMan46]

Well, I was just curious and found the list below (SOURCE) for April 19:

In the dark on most of the composers (assume the more recent ones may not even be 'classical' composers?) - but the bottom list of non-composers did pique my interest - Dave

Deller, Florian Johann - 1773
Doret, Gustave - 1943
Havergal, William Henry - 1870
Hellendaal, Pieter - 1799
Kellner, Johann Peter - 1772
Levy, Ernst - 1981
Muller-Hermann, Johanna - 1941
Smith, William - 1645
Wesley, Samuel - 1876
Westendorf, Thomas - 1923
Wiren, Dag Ivar - 1986

Benjamin Rush, Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Darwin,  & Pierre Curie - now I've heard of these guys!