Today in Composer History
Sub-Topics: Franz Schubert - Frederik Chopin - Johann Sebastian Bach - Ludwig van Beethoven - Wolfgang Mozart
Events in Music
Events 1 - 20 of 20
1527-12-12 - Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
1630-01-07 - Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
1707-10-17 - German composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach
1822-03-16 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
1833-10-03 - Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson
1840-09-12 - Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck
1854-02-06 - Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
1854-02-27 - Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1855-04-26 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
1902-03-09 - Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
1910-03-18 - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
1911-02-05 - Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
1914-02-13 - American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
1914-10-15 - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
1932-05-13 - Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
1942-07-20 - Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
1942-10-23 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
1970-04-13 - Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
1972-03-05 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
1993-02-15 - Katie Elizabeth Hillyard was born, famous English young composer of the year 2007.England
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 7,067
1098-09-16 - Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first composer whose biography is known (d. 1179)
1291-10-31 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet
1397-08-05 - Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)
1416-03-27 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
1450-11-22 - Jacob Obrecht, composer
1451-01-14 - Franchinus Gaffurius, composer
1452-12-22 - Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer
1458-11-22 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1464-04-23 - Robert Fayrfax, composer
1468-06-12 - Juan del Encina, composer
1483-10-26 - Hans Buchner, composer
1484-03-29 - Johann Spangenberg, composer
1486-01-06 - Martin Agricola, [M Sore], German composer/cantor
1490-10-12 - Bernardo Pisano, composer
1492-03-04 - Francesco de Layolle, composer
1494-11-05 - Hans Sachs, composer
1495-03-25 - Leonhard Paminger, composer
1502-07-27 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer
1505-01-30 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
1513-02-14 - Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian composer
1515-03-12 - Caspar Othmayr, composer
1517-01-17 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of Johannes)
1517-01-31 - Gioseffo Zarlino, composer
1525-02-03 - Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer
1526-06-12 - Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer
1527-03-21 - Hermann Finck, composer
1527-05-08 - Johann Walter, composer
1527-09-21 - Matthaus Ludecus, composer
1530-08-22 - Bartolomeo Spontone, composer
1531-08-24 - Ercole Bottrigari, composer
1532-03-25 - Pietro Pontio, composer
1533-04-08 - Claudio Merulo, organist/composer
1534-12-15 - Lucas Osiander, composer
1538-04-24 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
1539-12-20 - Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer
1540-06-23 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer
1542-02-22 - Santino Garsi, composer
1543-01-18 - Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer
1544-11-27 - Ascanio Trombeti, composer
1545-01-17 - Antonio Pace, composer
1545-10-19 - Giovanale Ancina, composer
1546-04-21 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer
1546-07-05 - Johann Steuerlein, composer
1547-05-20 - Melchior Bischoff, composer
1547-06-28 - Cristofano Malvezzi, composer
1549-02-04 - Eustache du Caurroy, composer
1549-06-01 - Allesandre Spontone, composer
1550-07-31 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster
1550-12-06 - Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer
1551-09-13 - Pandolfo Zallamella, composer
1554-05-20 - Paulo Bellasio, composer
1555-03-02 - Ludovico Spontoni, composer
1556-02-21 - Sethus Calvisius, composer
1556-08-10 - Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer
1557-02-15 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
1557-09-16 - Jacques Mauduit, composer
1557-12-07 - Girolamo Trombeti, composer
1560-01-05 - William Cobbold, composer
1560-03-08 - Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)
1560-08-10 - Hieronymus Praetorius, composer
1561-08-20 - Jacopo Peri, composer
1562-08-27 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer
1562-12-18 - Philipp Dulichius, composer
1563-12-29 - Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer
1566-01-14 - Angelo Notari, composer
1566-01-30 - Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1566-11-06 - Julien Perrichon, composer
1566-12-11 - Manuel Cardoso, composer
1566-12-30 - Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1567-02-12 - Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician
1567-04-25 - Aurelio Signoretti, composer
1567-04-26 - Nicolas Forme, composer
1567-05-15 - Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
1567-08-10 - Girolamo Giacobbi, composer
1567-12-15 - Christoph Demantius, composer
1568-05-17 - Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer
1568-09-03 - Adriano Banchieri, composer
1569-04-03 - Giovanni Battista Massarengo, composer
1569-11-16 - Paul Sartorius, composer
1569-11-27 - Ottavio Vernizzi, composer
1569-12-18 - Jakob Hassler, composer
1569-12-30 - Georg Quitschreiber, composer
1570-10-21 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer
1571-02-15 - Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer (Syntagma music)
1571-08-08 - John Ward, composer
1572-02-14 - Hans Christoph Haiden, composer
1572-06-24 - Jan Campanus, composer
1572-09-15 - Erasmus Widmann, composer
1573-01-31 - Ambrosius Metzger, composer
1573-01-31 - Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, composer
1573-02-22 - Gemignano Capilupi, composer
1574-01-09 - Christoph Buel, composer
1574-01-17 - Robert Fludd, composer
1574-03-07 - John Wilbye, composer
1574-07-08 - Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer
1574-10-21 - Nicolo Rubini, composer
1574-12-15 - Samuel Besler, composer
1576-10-25 - Thomas Weelkes, composer
1576-12-03 - Marsilio Casentini, composer
1577-06-02 - Giovanni Righi, composer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 100 of 5,037
1179-09-17 - Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81
1304-05-23 - Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
1361-06-09 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69
1397-09-02 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer
1445-08-08 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1453-12-24 - John Dunstable, English composer, dies
1460-09-20 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
1473-01-24 - Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies
1474-11-27 - Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74
1480-07-06 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer, dies at 64
1492-11-06 - Antoine Busnois, French composer
1497-02-06 - John Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79
1517-03-26 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
1518-08-16 - Loyset Compère, French composer
1518-11-20 - Pierre de la Rue/Peter van Straten, Flemish composer, dies
1521-08-27 - Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1521-10-24 - Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57
1522-06-25 - Franchinus Gaffurius, composer, dies at 71
1522-10-30 - Jean Mouton, French composer
1528-04-01 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
1529-08-30 - Juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61
1539-12-20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
1545-04-10 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer
1545-10-18 - John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55
1548-01-23 - Bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57
1548-06-14 - Carpentras, French composer
1548-08-06 - Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies
1550-06-13 - Johann Spangenberg, composer, dies at 66
1552-02-26 - Heinrich Faber, German composer
1553-02-04 - Caspar Othmayr, composer, dies at 37
1553-10-07 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
1556-06-10 - Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies
1558-12-29 - Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31
1559-10-02 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
1562-12-17 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82
1563-03-12 - John Bull, composer of British natl anthem (God Save The King), dies
1563-08-11 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. circa 1500)
1564-10-05 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1566-03-26 - Antonio de Cabezon, composer, dies
1567-01-08 - Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37
1567-05-03 - Leonhard Paminger, composer, dies at 72
1568-10-14 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
1571-06-07 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68
1572-02-23 - Pierre Certon, French composer
1572-08-27 - Claude Goudimel, French composer
1575-03-15 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1576-01-19 - Hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81
1576-08-15 - Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies
1578-11-08 - Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51
1580-01-18 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63
1580-04-01 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer
1580-11-30 - Richard Farrant, English composer
1585-06-04 - Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer, dies at 58
1585-11-23 - Thomas Tallis, composer, dies
1585-11-28 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
1587-08-14 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49
1588-08-12 - Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 45
1590-02-04 - Gioseffo Zarlino, composer, dies at 73
1590-09-20 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
1590-09-21 - Ascanio Trombeti, composer, dies at 45
1591-01-07 - Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59
1591-07-02 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1591-07-18 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40
1592-02-29 - Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
1592-07-01 - Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist/composer (Responsoria), dies
1594-02-02 - Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68
1594-06-14 - Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61
1594-06-14 - Roland de Lassus, composer, dies
1594-07-10 - Paulo Bellasio, composer, dies at 40
1595-12-27 - Pietro Pontio, composer, dies at 63
1596-05-06 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1599-01-22 - Cristofano Malvezzi, composer, dies at 51
1599-08-22 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
1599-11-08 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600-08-15 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60
1601-05-19 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
1602-02-03 - Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62
1602-03-11 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1602-10-01 - Hernando de Cabezon, composer, dies at 61
1603-07-04 - Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82
1604-01-17 - Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61
1604-05-04 - Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71
1604-05-05 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71
1604-08-31 - Giovanale Ancina, composer, dies at 58
1604-09-17 - Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69
1605-02-19 - Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54
1605-09-24 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)
1606-11-12 - Matthaus Ludecus, composer, dies at 79
1607-03-11 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1607-09-10 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
1607-10-26 - Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52
1609-02-28 - Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39
1609-05-15 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1609-08-07 - Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60
1609-10-01 - Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer
1611-08-27 - Tomés L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies
1612-06-08 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49
1612-08-12 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60
1612-09-30 - Ercole Bottrigari, composer, dies at 81
1613-05-05 - Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66
