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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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