Classic Wiki April

01-Apr 

1866 1924   BUSONI FERUCCIO   Italian-german pianist and composer

1873 1943   RACHMANINOV SERGEI   Russian pianist and composer

1921 1994   BERGSMA WILLIAM   American composer

1921            RACE STEVE   English musician and broadcaster

  
02-Apr 

1803 1890   LACHNER FRANZ   German conductor and composer

1928            CANTELO APRIL   English soprano

1937            ROS-MARBA ANTONI   Spanish conductor

1946            GUBBAY RAYMOND   English impresario

      
03-Apr 

1888 1975   CARDUS SIR NEVILLE   English music critic and writer

1895 1968   CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO MARIO   Italian composer

1918            EHRLING SIXTUS   Swedish conductor

1928            MEYER KIRSTEN   Swedish mezzo-soprano

1941            HYNNINEN JORMA   Finnish baritone

1948            OHLSSON GARRICK   American pianist

1953            RUDY MIKHAIL   Russian-born pianist

      

04-Apr 

1843 1916   RICHTER HANS   German conductor

1875 1964   MONTEUX PIERRE   French conductor

1905 1991   BOZZA EUGENE   French composer and conductor

1922 2004   BERNSTEIN ELMER   American composer

1943            LUCA SERGIU   Romanian-born American violinist

1946            LEIFERKUS SERGEI   Russian baritone

1957           TROTTER THOMAS   English organist

1960           EAGLEN JANE   English soprano

1972           JUROWSKI VLADIMIR   Russian conductor
    
     
05-Apr 

1784 1859   SPOHR LOUIS   German composer, violinist and conductor

1869 1937   ROUSSEL ALBERT   French composer

1908 1989   KARAJAN HERBERT VON   German conductor

1911 1977   LIEBERSON GODDARD   English-born American record producer and executive

1912 2000   GUASTAVINO CARLOS   Argentinian guitar composer

1917 1985   YARDUMIAN RICHARD   Armenian-born American composer

1944            PARKER EVAN   English jazz saxophonist

1959            DRAKE JULIUS   English pianist
     
     
06-Apr 

1660 1722   KUHNAU JOHANN   German composer

1757 1841   ROLLA ALESSANDRO   Italian violinist, violist and composer

1885 1961   SALZEDO CARLOS   American harpist and composer

1929 1996   DENISOV EDISON   Russian composer

1929            PREVIN ANDRE   American pianist and composer

1944            PALMER FELICITY   English mezzo-soprano

1951            ROGE' PASCAL   French pianist

1953            DEVOYON PASCAL   French pianist

1967            ANDERSON JULIAN   English composer
     
     
07-Apr 

1726 1814   BURNEY CHARLES   English music historian and composer

1763 1846   DRAGONETTI DOMENICO   Italian double bass virtuoso and composer

1899 1972   CASADESUS ROBERT   French pianist and composer

1915 1959   HOLIDAY BILLIE   American blue's and jazz singer

1920            SHANKAR RAVI   Indian sitar player and composer

1924            DAN IKUMA   Japanese composer

1946            KAMU OKKO   Finnish conductor

1970            ANDSNES LEIF OVE   Norwegian pianist
    
     
08-Apr 

1692 1770   TARTINI GIUSEPPE   Italian composer and violinist

1784 1849   AGUADO DIONISIO   Spanish guitarist and composer

1889 1983   BOULT SIR ADRIAN   English conductor

1902 1974   KRIPS JOSEF   Austrian conductor

1921 2003   CORELLI FRANCO   Italian tenor

1929 2000   BERRY WALTER   Austrian bass/baritone

1940            DICKENSON MERIEL   English mezzo-soprano

1947            LOTT DAME FELICITY   English soprano

1953            MONTAGUE DIANA   English mezzo-soprano

1957            MICHAELS-MOORE ANTHONY   English baritone
     
     
09-Apr 

1627 1693   KERLL JOHANN KASPAR   German composer and organist

1794 1881   BOEHM THEODOR   German flute maker

1717 1750   MONN MATTHIAS GEORG   Austrian composer

1898 1976   ROBESON PAUL   American bass and actor

1906 1988   DORATI ANTAL   Hungarian conductor

1932 2006   JORDAN  ARMIN   Swiss conductor

1935            SALLINEN AULIS   Finnish composer

1936            MAKSYMIUK JERZY   Polish conductor

1945            JENKINS NEIL   English tenor
     
     
10-Apr 

1892 1967   DE SABATA VICTOR   Italian conductor and composer

1864 1932   d' ALBERT EUGEN   German composer and pianist

1902 1992   MORTIMER HARRY   English conductor and trumpeter

1930            BOLLING CLAUDE   French jazz pianist and composer

1935            MESTER JORGE   Mexican-born American conductor and composer

1953            LEONARD SARAH   English soprano

1955            GARRETT LESLIE   English soprano

1958            BRONFMAN YEFIM   Russian pianist

 

11-Apr 

1682 1738   MOURET JEAN-JOSEPH   French composer and singer

1819 1895   HALLE' SIR CHARLES   German-born English conductor and pianist

1908 1973   ANČERL KAREL   Czech conductor

1916 1983   GINASTERA ALBERTO   Argentinian composer

1926            DE PEYER GERVASE   English clarinettist

1938            MOLL KURT   German bass 

1941            DAVIES ARTHUR   Welsh tenor
     

12-Apr 

1722 1793   NARDINI PIETRO   Italian composer and violinist

1801 1843   LANNER JOSEPH   Austrian composer

1907 1984   HOLST  IMOGEN   English composer, writer and conductor

1927            HEMSLEY THOMAS   English baritone

1928            PAILLARD JEAN-FRANCOIS   French conductor

1933            CABALLE MONSERRAT   Spanish soprano

1943            KOVACIC ERNST   Austrian violinist

     
13-Apr 

1816 1875   B ENNETT SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE   English composer

1912 2003   SÁDLO MILOS   Czech cellist

1938            RZEWSKI FREDERIC   American composer

1941            PRICE DAME MARGARET   Welsh soprano

1946            JONES DELLA   Welsh mezzo-soprano

     
14-Apr 

1929            BERGLUND PAAVO   Finnish conductor

1948 1983   VIVIER CLAUDE   Canadian composer

1949            WALLACE JOHN   Scottish trumpeter

1949            HARRHY EIDWENN   Welsh soprano

1951            LLOYD WEBBER JULIAN   English cellist

1956            BONNEY  BARBARA   American soprano

1957            PLETNEV MIKHAIL   Russian pianist and conductor

1958            MILLO APRILE   Greek soprano

1974            LAI JASON   English-born Chinese conductor
     
     
15-Apr 

1651 1696   GABRIELI DOMENICO   Italian composer and cellist

1688 1758   FASCH JOHANN FRIEDRICH   German composer

1891 1945   ALWIN  CARL   German conductor and composer

1924            MARRINER SIR NEVILLE   English conductor and violinist

1944 1998   WILBRAHAM JOHN   English trumpeter

1948 2003   KAMEN MICHAEL   American composer and arranger
     
     
16-Apr 

1893 1987   MOMPOU FEDERICO   Spanish composer

1895 1981   MISCHAKOV MISCHA   Russian-born American violinist

1898 1976   PONS LILI   French-American soprano

1924 1994   MANCINI HENRY   American composer and conductor

1930 2003   MANN HERBIE   American jazz flautist

1940            PRUSLIN STEPHEN   American-born pianist and librettist

1944            DAVIES DENNIS RUSSELL   American conductor and pianist

1946            VASKS PETERIS   Estonian composer
     
     
17-Apr 

1683 1729   HEINICHEN JOHANN DAVID   German composer

1774 1850   TOMASEK VACLAV JAN KRTITEL   Bohemian composer and teacher

1882 1951   SCHNABEL ARTUR   Austrian pianist and composer

1888 1976   TEYTE DAME MAGGIE   English soprano

1903 1976   PIATIGORSKY GREGOR   American cellist

1925 2003   BOWDEN PAMELA   English mezzo-soprano

1929            LAST JAMES   German light music conductor

1940            SILJA ANJA   German soprano

1940            JERUSALEM  SIEGFRIED   German tenor

1950            ORTIZ CHRISTINA   Brazilian-born English pianist

1956            O'RILEY CHRISTOPHER   American pianist and presenter

 

18-Apr 

1819 1895   SUPPÉ FRANZ VON   Austrian composer and conductor

1882 1977   STOKOWSKI LEOPOLD   English-born American conductor and arranger

1907 1995   RÓSZA MIKLÓS   Hungarian composer and conductor

1910 1996   FISHER SYLVIA   Australian soprano

1944            THWAITES PENELOPE   English pianist

1948            MALFITANO CATHERINE   American soprano
     
     
19-Apr 

1660 1716   DURON SEBASTIEN   Spanish composer

1836 1919   JULLIARD AUGUSTUS D   American music patron

1868 1933   SCHILLINGS MAX VON   German conductor and composer

1919 2003   GONZÁLEZ RUBEN   Cuban pianist

1926            KLEE BERNHARD   German conductor 

1935 2002   MOORE DUDLEY   English pianist and actor

1942            FANSHAWE DAVID   English ethnomusicologist and composer

1947            PERAHIA MURRAY   American pianist

1947            TORTELIER YAN-PASCAL   french violinist and conductor
     
     
20-Apr 

1881 1950   MAISKOVSKY NIKOLAI   Russian composer

1936            RONBINSON CHRISTOPHER   English organist and conductor

1943            GARDINER SIR JOHN ELLIOT   English conductor

1952            KYR ROBERT   Cleveland-born composer
     
     
21-Apr 

1889 1985   ZIMBALIST  EFREM   American violinist and composer

1899 1984   THOMPSON RANDALL   American composer

1920 1973   MADERNA BRUNO   Italian composer and conductor

1933            BLACKWOOD EASLEY   American composer and pianist

1935            RITCHIE STANLEY   Australian-born violinist

1936            ROGG LIONEL   Swiss organist

1930            McCABE JOHN   English pianist and composer

1950            BERNAS RICHARD   American conductor

     
22-Apr 

1658 1709   TORELLI GIUSEPPE   Italian composer

1858 1944   SMYTH DAME ETHEL   English composer

1906 1997   FENBY ERIC   English composer, teacher and Delius' amanuensis

1912 1953   FERRIER KATHLEEN   English contralto

1916 1999   MENUHIN YEHUDI   American-English violinist and conductor

1922 1979   MINGUS CHARLES   American jazz bassist and composer

1939            KRCEK JAROSLAV   Czech composer and conductor

1944            RIFKIN JOSHUA   American musicologist, pianist and conductor

1956            SARASTE JUKKA-PEKKA   Finnish conductor
     
     
23-Apr 

1564 1616   SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM   English playwrite

1857 1919   LEONCAVALLO RUGGIERO   Italian composer

1882 1953   COATES ALBERT   English conductor and composer

1891 1953   PROKOFIEV SERGE   Russian composer

1960            DOUGLAS BARRY   Irish pianist     

 

24-Apr 

1706 1784   MARTINI GIOVANNI   Italian composer

1900 1962   O'CONNELL CHARLES   American record producer

1941            WILLIAMS JOHN   English classical guitarist

1942            STREISAND BARBARA   American singer and actress

1944            BURROWES NORMA   English soprano

1962            ANTONSEN OLE EDVARD   Norwegian trumpeter

1980            FINCH CATRIN   Welsh harpist

25-Apr 

1464 1521   FAYRFAX ROBERT   English composer

1918 1998   FITZGERALD ELLA   American jazz singer

1918 2006   VARNAY ASTRID   American soprano

1927 2005   PALM SIEGFRIED   German cellist

1946            FAIRWEATHER DIGBY   English jazz trumpeter

1961            MORK TRULS   Norwegian cellist

26-Apr 

1900 1997   FUCHS JOSEPH   American violinist and teacher

1924 2003   EDWARDS TEDDY   American jazz saxophonist

1935            SUSA CONRAD   American composer

1953            KWELLA PATRIZIA   English soprano

27-Apr 

1767 1821   ROMBERG ANDREAS JAKOB   German composer

1812 1883   FLOTOW FRIEDRICH VON   German composer

1894 1995   SLONIMSKY NICOLAS   Russian composer

1920 1956   CANTELLI GUIDO   Italian conductor

1931            OISTRACH IGOR   Russian violinist

1939            MILNE HAMISH   Scottish pianist

1941            BLEGEN JUDITH   American soprano

1950            ZACHARIAS CHRISTIAN   German pianist

     
28-Apr 

1906 1999   SACHER PAUL   Swiss conductor

1936            MEHTA ZUBIN   Indian conductor

1947            LE FANU NOCOLA   English composer

1947            ROSS ELISE   American soprano

1948            TATE JEFFEREY   English conductor

1954            DAUGHERTY MICHAEL   American composer

1937            Louisville Orchestra Founded  

29-Apr 

1897 1961   BEECHAM SIR THOMAS   English conductor

1895 1967   SARGENT SIR MALCOLM   English conductor

1885 1961   RIEGGER WALLINGFORD   American composer

1899 1974   ELLINGTON EDWARD 'DUKE'   American composer, pianist and bandleader

1929            SCULTHORPE PETER   Australian composer

1948            HOWARD LESLIE   Australian-born pianist and conductor

1951            HÄMEENNIEMI EERO   Finnish composer

1955            QUILICO GINO   Canadian baritone

  
30-Apr 

1870 1948   LEHAR FRANZ   Hungarian composer and conductor

1886 1981   MERRICK FRANK   English pianist, composer and teacher

1916 1999   SHAW ROBERT   American conductor and chorus-master

1902 1960   RAPHAEL GÜNTER   German composer

1939            ZWILLICH ELLEN TAAFFE   American composer

1940 2002   NAVARRO GARCIA   Spanish conductor

1955            TARNOPOLSKY VLADIMIR   Russian composer