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April – Composers Anniversaries

Born

Died

Composer

April 1
1 April 1721 19 April 1799 Pieter Hellendaal
1 April 1866 27 July 1924 Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni
1 April 1873 28 March 1943 Sergey Rachmaninoff
24 November 1868 1 April 1917 Scot Joplin

April 2
2 April 1803 20 January 1890 Franz Lachner
29 April 1885 2 April 1961 Wallingford Riegger

April 3
3 April 1895 17 March 1968 Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
23 July 1796 3 April 1868 Franz Berwald
7 May 1833 3 April 1897 Johannes Brahms
2 March 1900 3 April 1950 Kurt Weill
27 March 1882 3 April 1972 Ferde Grofé

April 4
4 April 1752 5 May 1837 Nicola Antonio Zingarelli
4 April 1905 1991 Eugène Bozza
25 August 1902 4 April 1972 Stefan Wolpe

April 5
5 April 1784 22 October 1859 Louis Spohr
5 April 1869 23 August 1937 Albert Roussel
2 September 1862 5 April 1921 Alphons Diepenbrock

April 6
6 April 1660 5 June 1722 Johann Kuhnau
6 April 1885 17 August 1961 Carlos Salzédo
6 April 1900 25 July 1967 Andrés Orchassal Sas
30 March 1727 6 April 1779 Tommaso Traetta
17 June 1882 6 April 1971 Igor Stravinsky
ca. 840 6 April 912 Notker Balbulus

April 7
7 April 1726 12 April 1814 Charles Burney
7 April 1870 29 June 1965 Joseph Ryelandt
17 September 1711 7 April 1783 Ignaz Holzbauer
6 September 1781 7 April 1858 Anton Diabelli
3 August 1917 7 April 1986 Antonio Lauro

April 8
8 April 1692 26 February 1770 Giuseppe Tartini
29 November 1797 8 April 1848 Gaetano Donizetti
20 February 1802 8 April 1870 Charles Auguste de Beriot
17 September 1884 8 April 1920 Charles Tomlinson Griffes

April 9
9 April 1906 13 November 1988 Antal Dorati
21 November 1877 9 April 1933 Elert Sigfrid Karg

April 10
10 April 1707 22 January 1795 Michel Corrette
10 April 1864 3 March 1932 Eugen d’Albert
20 February 1929 10 April 1997 Toshiro Mayuzumi

April 11
11 April 1916 25 June 1983 Alberto Ginastera
13 April 1894 11 April 1969 Paul Ludvig Irgens Jensen

April 12
12 April 1722 7 May 1793 Pietro Nardini
12 April 1768 22 February 1846 Carolus Antonius Antoine Fodor
12 April 1801 14 April 1843 Joseph Lanner
7 April 1726 12 April 1814 Charles Burney
17 September 1892 12 April 1981 Hendrik Andriessen

April 13
13 April 1810 29 August 1876 Félicien César David
13 April 1816 1 February 1875 William Bennet
13 April 1868 14 June 1948 John Blackwood McEwan
13 April 1894 11 April 1969 Paul Ludvig Irgens Jensen
1300 13 April 1377 Guillaume de Machaut
15 June 1763 13 April 1826 Franz Danzi
8 August 1857 13 April 1944 Cécile Chaminade

April 14
14 April 1811 5 July 1887 Félix Le Couppey
23 February 1685 14 April 1759 Georg Friedrich Händel
12 April 1801 14 April 1843 Joseph Lanner
15 June 1940 14 April 1983 Willem Frederik Bon
25 July 1907 14 April 1987 Karl Höller
9 July 1906 14 April 1983 Elisabeth Lutyens

April 15
15 April 1688 5 December 1758 Johann Friedrich Fasch
22 December 1894 15 April 1968 Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshynsky

April 16
16 April 1893 30 June 1987 Federico Mompou

April 17
17 April 1683 16 July 1729 Johann David Heinichen
17 April 1741 23 October 1801 Johann Gottlieb Naumann
17 April 1897 27 March 1992 Harald Sæverud
17 April 1900 18 June 1955 Willy Burkhard
25 July 1657 17 April 1714 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach
28 September 1681 17 April 1764 Johann Mattheson
27 May 1799 17 April 1862 Jacques François Halévy

April 18
18 April 1605 12 January 1674 Giacomo Carissimi
18 April 1777 16 February 1838 Ludwig Berger
18 April 1786 27 August 1868 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee
18 April 1819 21 May 1895 Franz von Suppé
9 July 1879 18 April 1936 Ottorino Respighi

April 19
19 April 1785 27 December 1858 Alexandre Pierre François
Boëly
19 April 1892 7 November 1983 Germaine Tailleferre
1 April 1721 19 April 1799 Pieter Hellendaal
14 August 1810 19 April 1876 Samuel Sebastian Wesley
15 October 1905 19 April 1986 Dag Ivar Wirén
3 February 1910 19 April 1993 Blas Galindo Dimas

April 20
20 April 1881 30 July 1957 Sem Dresden
20 April 1881 9 August 1950 Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky
30 November 1796 20 April 1869 Carl Loewe

April 21
21 April 1899 9 July 1984 Randall Thompson
21 April 1920 13 November 1973 Bruno Maderna
24 December 1821 21 April 1891 Johannes Worp

April 22
22 April 1658 8 February 1709 Giuseppe Torelli
22 April 1868 31 May 1948 José Vianna da Motta
5 May 1708 22 April 1776 Johann Adolf Scheibe
27 January 1823 22 April 1892 Edouard Lalo
23 November 1878 22 April 1925 André Caplet

April 23
23 April 1858 8 May 1944 Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
23 April 1872 20 January 1952 Arthur Farwell
23 April 1891 5 March 1953 Sergei Prokofiev
23 April 1900 28 December 1997 Henry Barraud
9 October 1877 23 April 1946 Jesús Castillo

April 24
24 April 1706 4 October 1784 Giovanni Battista Martini
24 April 1721 27 July 1783 Johann Philipp Kirnberger
27 December 1887 24 April 1936 Bernard van Dieren
2 November 1880 24 April 1939 John Herbert Foulds
8 December 1882 24 April 1948 Manuel Ponce
12 February 1923 24 April 1998 Mel Powell

April 25
25 April 1861 20 February 1925 Marco Enrico Bossi
20 May 1903 25 April 1951 Jerzy Fitelberg

April 26
26 April 1812 24 January 1883 Friedrich von Flotow
26 April 1906 12 August 1980 Leopold Spinner
27 November 1860 26 April 1935 Victor Ewald

April 27
27 April 1623 24 November 1722 Jan Adams Reinken
27 April 1861 21 May 1926 Georgi Lvovitch Catoire
8 January 1812 27 April 1871 Sigismond Thalberg
6 January 1872 27 April 1915 Alexander Scriabin

April 28
22 August 1847 28 April 1935 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
10 December 1908 28 April 1992 Olivier Messiaen

April 29
29 April 1842 31 December 1899 Karl Millöcker
29 April 1872 24 December 1932 Eyvind Alnæs
29 April 1885 2 April 1961 Wallingford Riegger
6 September 1644 29 April 1712 Juan Bautista José Cabanilles
26 May 1925 29 April 1997 Willem Hendrik Zwart

April 30
30 April 1870 24 October 1948 Franz Léhar
30 April 1885 6 February 1947 Luigi Russolo
2 June 1887 30 April 1970 Hall Francis Johnson
24 August 1910 30 April 2000 Bernhard Heiden