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1525    is birth year of    Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi, d. 1594

1543    is birth year of    Byrd William, d. 1623

1567    is birth year of    Monteverdi May 1567

1653    is birth year of    Corelli February 1653

1659    is birth year of    Purcell September 1659

1660    is birth year of    A. Scarlatti May 1660

1678    is birth year of    Vivaldi March 1678

1681    is birth year of    Telemann March 1681

1683    is birth year of    Rameau September 1683

1685    is birth year of    Handel February 1685

1685    is birth year of    JS Bach March 1685

1710    is birth year of    Pergolesi Giovanni Battista, d. 1736

1732    is birth year of    Franz Joseph Haydn March 1732

1735    is birth year of    JC Bach September 1735

1756    is birth year of    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart January 1756

1770    is birth year of    Beethoven December 1770

1786    is birth year of    Paganini Niccolò, d. 1840

1786    is birth year of    Weber November 1786

1792    is birth year of    Rossini February 1792

1797    is birth year of    Donizetti November 1797

1797    is birth year of    Schubert January 1797

1801    is birth year of    Bellini Vincenzo, d. 1835

1803    is birth year of    Berlioz Hector, d. 1869

1809    is birth year of    Mendelssohn Felix, d. 1847

1810    is birth year of    Chopin Frederick, d. 1849

1810    is birth year of    Schumann June 1810

1811    is birth year of    Liszt Franz, d. 1886

1813    is birth year of    Verdi October 1813

1813    is birth year of    Wagner May 1813

1818    is birth year of    Gounod Charles, d. 1893

1824    is birth year of    Bruckner Septmber 1824

1824    is birth year of    Smetana Bedrich, d. 1884

1829    is birth year of    Gottschalk Louis Moreau, d. 1869

1833    is birth year of    Borodin November 1833

1833    is birth year of    Brahms May 1833

1835    is birth year of    Saint-Saens Camille, d. 1921

1837    is birth year of    Balakirev January 1837

1838    is birth year of    Bizet Georges, d. 1875

1839    is birth year of    Mussorgsky March 1839

1840    is birth year of    Tchaikovsky May 1840

1841    is birth year of    Dvorak Antonin, d. 1904

1842    is birth year of    Massenet Jules, d. 1912

1843    is birth year of    Grieg Edvard, d. 1907

1844    is birth year of    Rimsky-Korsakov March 1844

1845    is birth year of    Fauré Gabriel, d. 1924

1854    is birth year of    Janacek Leos, d. 1928

1855    is birth year of    Chausson Ernest, d. 1899

1857    is birth year of    Elgar Sir Edward, d. 1934

1857    is birth year of    Leoncavallo Ruggiero, d. 1919

1858    is birth year of    Puccini December 1858

1860    is birth year of    Mahler July 1860

1862    is birth year of    Debussy August 1862

1863    is birth year of    Mascagni Pietro, d. 1945

1865    is birth year of    Sibelius Jean, d. 1957

1866    is birth year of    Satie Erik, d. 1925

1872    is birth year of    Scriabin Alexander, d. 1915

1872    is birth year of    Vaughan-Williams Ralph, d. 1958

1873    is birth year of    Rachmaninoff April 1873

1874    is birth year of    Holst Gustav, d. 1934

1874    is birth year of    Ives Charles, d. 1954

1874    is birth year of    Schoenberg September 1874

1875    is birth year of    Ravel March 1875

1876    is birth year of    Ruggles Carl, d. 1971

1879    is birth year of    Respighi Ottorino, d. 1936

1880    is birth year of    Bloch Ernest, d. 1959

1881    is birth year of    Bartok Bela, d. 1945

1882    is birth year of    Stravinsky June 1882

1883    is birth year of    Webern December 1883

1885    is birth year of    Berg February 1885

1887    is birth year of    Villa-Lobos Heitor, d. 1959

1890    is birth year of    Martinu Bohuslav, d. 1959

1891    is birth year of    Prokoviev Sergei, d. 1953

1892    is birth year of    Honegger Arthur, d. 1955

1892    is birth year of    Milhaud Darius, d. 1974

1894    is birth year of    Piston Walter, d. 1976

1895    is birth year of    Hindemith Paul, d. 1963

1895    is birth year of    Orff Carl, d. 1982

1896    is birth year of    Hanson Howard, d. 1981

1896    is birth year of    Sessions Roger, d. 1985

1896    is birth year of    Thomson Virgil, d. 1989

1897    is birth year of    Cowell Henry, d. 1965

1898    is birth year of    Gershwin George, d. 1937

1899    is birth year of    Chávez Carlos, d. 1978

1899    is birth year of    Poulenc Francis, d. 1963

1899    is birth year of    Revueltas Silvestre, d. 1940

1900    is birth year of    Copland November 1900

1900    is birth year of    Krenek Ernst; more than 250 compositions in all styles, Austrian-American

1900    is birth year of    Weill Curt, d. 1950

1903    is birth year of    Khachaturian Aram, d. 1978

1906    is birth year of    Shostakovich Dmitri, d. 1975

1908    is birth year of    Messiaen Oliver, d. 1992

1910    is birth year of    Barber Samuel, d. 1981

1911    is birth year of    Hovhaness Alan, d. 2000

1911    is birth year of    Menotti Gian Carlo, d. 2007

1912    is birth year of    Cage John, d. 1992

1913    is birth year of    Britten Benjamen, d. 1976

1913    is birth year of    Lutoslawski Witold, d. 1994

1918    is birth year of    Bernstein Leonard, d. 1990

1918    is birth year of    Rochberg George, d. 2005

1921    is birth year of    Imbrie Andrew, d. 2007

1925    is birth year of    Boulez March 1925

1926    is birth year of    Henze Hans Werner

1928    is birth year of    Stockhausen August 1928

1932    is birth year of    Shchedrin Rodion

1933    is birth year of    Penderecki Krzysztof

1934    is birth year of    Birtwistle July 1934

1936    is birth year of    Reich October 1936

1937    is birth year of    Glass Philip

1938    is birth year of    Wuorinen Charles

1944    is birth year of    Tavener John

1947    is birth year of    Adams John

C.1300    is birth year of    Machaut Guillaume de, d. 1377

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