91.3 WHIL's Classical Composer Birthdays

July

    2, 1714 GLUCK, Christoph Willibald Ritter von
    2, 1819 GOUVY, Louis Theodore
    3, 1854 JANACEK, Leos
    3, 1879 GAUBERT, Philippe
    4, 1694 DAQUIN, Louis-Claude
    4, 1826 FOSTER, Stephen Collins
    5, 1775 CROTCH, William
    5, 1878 HOLBROOKE, Josef
    5, 1895 JACOB, Gordon
    5, 1918 ROCHBERG, George
    6, 1800 ZANI DE FERRANTI, Marco Aurelio
    7, 1710 HOPKEN, Arvid Niclas von
    7, 1860 MAHLER, Gustav
    7, 1898 EISLER, Hanns
    7, 1911 MENOTTI, Gian Carlo
    8, 1882 GRAINGER, Percy Aldridge
    9, 1879 RESPIGHI, Ottorino
    9, 1915 DIAMOND, David
    10, 1778 NEUKOMM, Sigismund Ritter von
    10, 1835 WIENIAWSKI, Henryk
    12, 1468 ENCINA, Juan del
    12, 1885 BUTTERWORTH, George Sainton Kaye
    13, 1909 CONSTANTINESCU, Paul
    14, 1854 KOPYLOV, Alexander Alexandrovich
    14, 1891 JONG, Marinus de
    14, 1901 FINZI, Gerald
    18, 1670 BONONCINI, Giovanni
    19, 1811 LACHNER, Vincenz
    20, 1872 SEVERAC, Deodat de
    20, 1927 GIELEN, Michael
    23, 1796 BERWALD, Franz Adolf
    23, 1866 CILEA, Francesco
    24, 1803 ADAM, Adolphe-Charles
    24, 1818 GODEFROID, Felix
    24, 1880 BLOCH, Ernest
    24, 1917 FARNON, Robert Joseph
    26, 1782 FIELD, John
    26, 1791 MOZART, Franz Xaver
    26, 1863 WIHTOL, Joseph
    27, 1784 ONSLOW, Andre Georges Louis
    27, 1867 GRANADOS, Enrique
    27, 1877 DOHNANYI, Ernst von
    28, 1893 LANGGAARD, Rued Immanuel
    31, 1847 CERVANTES, Ignatio
    31, 1861 ARENSKY, Anton Stepanovich


July 27th

July 27, 1781
GIULIANI, Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo - The Italian guitar virtuoso Mauro Giuliani settled in Vienna in 1806. There he exercised strong influence over the progress of the instrument, as a teacher, performer and composer. He left Vienna in 1819, spending some four years in Rome before retiring to Naples, where he died in 1829.

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