Yesterday's Deaths in Music

Welcome to Today in Music for Saturday, July 5, 2008.

1803 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 73
1852 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69
1883 - Frederick Scotson Clark, composer, dies at 42
1884 - Victor Masse, composer, dies at 62
1909 - Emil Bohn, composer, dies at 70
1925 - Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer, dies at 61
1941 - Oskar Fried, composer, dies at 69
1944 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer, dies at 67
1963 - Daniel Ruyneman, composer, dies at 76
1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85
1980 - Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61
1981 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer, dies at 75
1983 - Vaclav Trojan, composer, dies at 76
1989 - Ernesto Halffter, composer, dies at 84
1996 - Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91

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