On this day: Feb 1, 2015

So we’re going to start clean with a new month. February 1:

February 1:

1687 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, German violinist and composer (d. 1733) I’ll resist making a joke about shoes.

1690 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1768)

1701 – Johan Agrell, Swedish-German composer (d. 1765)

1836 – Emil Hartmann, Danish composer (d. 1898)

1859 – Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor (d. 1924)

1907 – Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (d. 1993) This guy’s given first name is “Mozart”

1952 – Jenő Jandó, Hungarian pianist

Deaths:

1743 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (b. 1657)

1949 – Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (b. 1885)

2007 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer (b. 1911)

February 2:

Births:

1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (d. 1732)

1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer (d. 1745)

1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer (d. 1785)

1873 – Leo Fall, Austrian composer (d. 1925)

1875 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (d. 1962)

1901 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)

Deaths:

1909 – Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)

1968 – Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor (b. 1878)

2014 – Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (b. 1935)

February 3:

Births:

1654 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, Italian composer (d. 1714)

1736 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer and theorist (d. 1809)

1809 – Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1847)

1817 – Émile Prudent, French pianist and composer (d. 1863)

1904 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)

1911 – Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)

1960 – Malcolm Martineau, Scottish pianist

Deaths:

1993 – Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1927)

February 4:

Births:

1639 – Alessandro Melani, Italian composer (d. 1703)

1676 – Giacomo Facco, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1753)

1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer (d. 1731) This almost seems like a joke… (almost) names of all three Bs

1740 – Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)

1912 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor (d. 1993)

Deaths:

1590 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)

1781 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)

2012 – János Sebestyén, Hungarian organist (b. 1931)

February 5:

Births:

1594 – Biagio Marini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663)

1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor (d. 1798)

1810 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880)

1909 – Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1969)

1929 – Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005) Student of Alfred Cortot

Deaths:

1952 – Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (b. 1877)

2013 – Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer (b. 1924)

February 6:

Births:

1818 – Henry Litolff, English pianist and composer (d. 1891)

1852 – Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1918)

1903 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (d. 1991)

1941 – Stephen Albert, American composer (d. 1992)

Deaths:

1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. 1410)

1981 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer and conductor (b. 1925)

February 7:

Births:

1758 – Benedikt Schack, Czech tenor and composer (d. 1826)

1871 – Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish pianist and composer (d. 1927)

1878 – Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (d. 1936)

Deaths:

1779 – William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)

1994 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1913)

1996 – Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1925)

February 8:

Births:

1708 – Václav Jan Kopřiva, Bohemian organist and composer (d. 1789)

1741 – André Grétry, Belgian-French composer (d. 1813)

1764 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer (d. 1846)

1932 – John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor

Deaths:

1709 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1658)

1849 – François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (b. 1781)

2006 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)

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On this day: Feb 1, 2015

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