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/*
* Music
*
* $OpenBSD: calendar.music,v 1.25 2009/06/26 22:45:20 martynas Exp $
*/
#ifndef _calendar_music_
#define _calendar_music_
01/01 Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942
01/03 Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945
01/04 Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979
01/04 Josef Suk is born in Krecovice, Czechoslovakia, 1874
01/06 Cesar Cui is born in Vilnius, Russia, 1835
01/06 Max Bruch is born in Germany, 1838
01/06 Alexander Scriabin is born in Moscow, 1872
01/07 Francis Jean Poulenc is born in Paris, 1899
01/08 Elvis Presley born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, 1935
01/08 David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947
01/08 Arcangelo Corelli dies in Italy, 1713
01/09 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945
01/10 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976
01/10 Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943
01/10 Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952
01/10 Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945
01/11 Maurice Durufle is born in Louviers, France, 1902
01/11 Reinhold Gliere is born in Kiev, Russia, 1875
01/13 Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973
01/17 Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969
01/19 Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943
01/20 Walter Piston is born in Rockland, Maine, 1894
01/20 Ernest Chausson is born in Paris, 1855
01/22 Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935
01/23 Edward MacDowell dies, 1908
01/24 Warren Zevon is born, 1947
01/25 Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978
01/25 Wilhelm Furtwangler is born in Berlin, 1886
01/25 Witold Lutoslawski is born in Warsaw, Poland, 1913
01/27 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930
01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, 1756
01/27 Giuseppe Verdi dies, 1901
01/27 Eduardo Lalo is born in Lille, France, 1823
01/28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970
01/30 Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982
01/30 Francis Jean Poulenc dies in Paris, 1963
01/30 Thomas Tallis is born in England, 1505
01/31 The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970
01/31 Franz Schubert is born in Lichtenthal, Vienna, Austria, 1797
02/01 RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949
02/02 Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942
02/02 Lou Harrison dies in Lafayette, Indiana, en route to a festival
of his music at Ohio State University, 2003
02/02 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dies near Rome, 1594
02/03 The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big
Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959
02/03 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809
02/03 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is born near Rome, 1525
02/05 Jacques Ibert dies, 1962
02/07 Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964
02/07 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979
02/07 Witold Lutoslawski dies, 1994
02/08 John Towner Williams born in New York City, 1932
02/08 Giuseppe Torelli dies in Bologna, Italy, 1709
02/09 Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941
02/09 Alban Berg is born in Vienna, Austria, 1885
02/12 The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964
02/12 Roy Harris is born, 1898
02/13 Richard Wagner dies in Venice, Italy, 1883
02/14 Dmitri Kabalevsky dies in Moscow, 1987
02/15 Michael Praetorius is born in Creuzburg (date uncertain), 1571
02/15 Michael Praetorius dies, 1621
02/15 Francois Charpentier is born in Paris, 1620
02/15 William Howard Schuman dies, 1992
02/15 Georges Auric is born in Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 1899
02/16 Francois Joseph Gossec dies near Paris, 1829
02/17 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982
02/17 Arcangelo Corelli is born in Fusignano, Italy, 1653
02/18 Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933
02/19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in
Britain, 1972
02/19 William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940
02/19 Mikhail Glinka dies, 1857
02/20 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946
02/20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974
02/20 Carl Czerny is born, 1791
02/20 Percy Grainger dies in New York City, 1961
02/21 Morton Gould dies, 1996
02/21 Andres Segovia is born in Spain, 1893
02/23 George Friedrich Handel is born in Halle on the Salle, Germany, 1685
02/23 Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944
02/23 Sir Edward William Elgar dies 1934
02/24 Howard Hanson in Rochester, New York, 1981
02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
02/27 Alexander Borodin dies, 1887
02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
02/29 Gioacchino Rossini is born in Pesaro, Italy, 1792
03/01 Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969
03/01 Frederic Chopin is born in Zelazowa Wola, Warsaw, Poland, 1810
03/02 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949
03/02 Bedrich Smetana is born, 1824
03/03 Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966
03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy, 1678
03/05 Sergei Prokofiev dies in Moscow within minutes of Stalin, 1953
03/05 Heitor Villa-Lobos is born, 1887
03/06 Zoltan Kodaly dies in Budapest, Hungary, 1967
03/06 John Philip Sousa dies, 1932
03/06 Edgard Varese's "Ionisation", the first musical composition to use
only percussion instruments, is premiered at Carnegie Hall, 1933
03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
03/07 Maurice Ravel is born in Ciboure, France, 1875
03/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973
03/08 Hector Berlioz dies, 1869
03/08 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is born, 1714
03/08 Carlo Gesuldo is born (date uncertain), 1566
03/08 Alan Hovhaness is born in Somerville, Massachusetts, 1911
03/09 Robin Trower is born in London, 1945
03/09 Johann Pachelbel dies in Nuremberg, Germany, 1706
03/10 Arthur Honegger is born in Le Havre, France, 1892
03/10 Pablo de Sarasate is born in Pamplona, Spain, 1844
03/11 Astor Piazzolla is born in Argentina, 1921
03/13 The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971
03/13 Cesar Cui dies in Smolensk, Russia, 1918
03/14 Georg Philipp Telemann is born in Magdeburg, 1681
03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944
03/16 Enrique Granados drowns in the English Channel, 1916
03/17 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942
03/18 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is born Tikhvin, Russia, 1844
03/19 Max Reger is born in Brand, Germany, 1873
03/21 Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany, 1685
03/21 Modest Mussorgsky is born in Karevo, Pskov (Russia), 1839
03/21 Alexander Glazunov dies, 1936
03/22 Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974
03/22 Jean-Baptiste Lully dies, 1687
03/22 Vaclav Nelhybel dies, 1996
03/25 Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943
03/25 Bela Bartok is born in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary, 1881
03/25 Claude Debussy dies in Paris, France, 1918 to the sound of World War I
03/26 Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria, 1827
03/26 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971
03/27 Ferde Grofe is born in New York City, 1892
03/28 Sergei Rachmaninov dies in Beverley Hills, California, 1943
03/28 Modest Mussorgsky dies, 1881
03/29 Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973
03/29 Carl Orff dies in Munich, Germany, 1982
03/30 Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945
03/31 Franz Joseph Haydn is born in Rohrau, Austria, 1732
04/01 Sergei Rachmaninov is born in Oneg, Russia, 1873
04/01 Scott Joplin dies in New York City, 1917
04/02 Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939
04/03 Johannes Brahms dies in Vienna, Austria, 1897
04/03 Ferde Grofe dies in Santa Monica, California, 1972
04/04 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork,
Mississippi, 1915
04/05 Louis Spohr is born in Braunschweig, Germany, 1784
04/06 Igor Stravinsky dies in New York City, 1971
04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898
04/10 Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970
04/11 Alberto Ginastera is born in Buenos Aires, 1916
04/14 Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945
04/14 George Friedrich Handel dies in London, England, 1759
04/16 Jean-Joseph Mouret is born in Avignon, France, 1682
04/18 Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981
04/18 Ottorino Respighi dies in Rome, 1936
04/18 Franz von Suppe is born in Split, Dalmatia (Croatia), 1819
04/19 Germaine Tailleferre is born at Saint Maur Des Fosses, Ile-de-France,
France, 1892
04/21 Randall Thompson is born, 1899
04/22 Eduardo Lalo dies in Paris, 1892
04/22 Giuseppe Torelli is born in Verona, Italy, 1658
04/25 Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925
04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933
04/27 Sergei Prokofiev is born in Sontsovka, Russia, 1891
04/27 Oliver Messiaen dies, 1992
04/27 Alexander Scriabin dies in Moscow from septicemia, 1915
04/29 "Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968
04/29 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington is born in Washington, DC, 1899
05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909
05/01 Antonin Dvorak dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1904
05/01 Aram Khachaturian dies in Moscow, 1978
05/01 Leo Sowerby is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1895
05/02 Alessandro Scarlatti is born in Sicily, 1660
05/03 Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945
05/04 George Enescu dies in Paris, France, 1955
05/07 Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1833
05/07 Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky is born in Votkinsk, Russia, 1840
05/07 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is premiered in the Karntnertortheater in
Vienna, Austria, 1824
05/07 Antonio Salieri dies in Vienna, Austria, 1825
05/09 Dietrich Buxtehude dies, 1707
05/10 Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945
05/11 Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, Florida, 1981
05/11 Max Reger dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1916
05/12 Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977
05/12 Jules Emile Frederic Massenet is born, 1842
05/12 Berdrich Smetana dies, 1884
05/14 Lou Harrison is born in Portland, Oregon, 1917
05/17 Erik Satie is born in Honfleur, France, 1866
05/17 Paul Dukas dies in Paris, France, 1935
05/18 Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
05/18 Gustav Mahler dies in Vienna, Austria, 1911
05/18 Isaac Albeniz dies, 1909
05/19 Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945
05/19 Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, 1874
05/20 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967
05/21 Franz von Suppe dies, 1895
05/22 Richard Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany, 1813
05/23 Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963
05/23 Jean Francaix is born, 1912
05/24 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941
05/24 Duke Ellington dies, 1974
05/24 Gabriel Faure is born in Pamiers, Ariege, Midi-Pyrenees, 1845
05/25 Gustav Holst dies in London, 1934
05/26 Al Jolson is born, 1886
05/26 Luciano Berio dies, 2003
05/27 Louis Durey is born in Paris, France, 1888
05/27 Niccolo Paganini dies in Nice, Italy, 1840
05/29 Igor Stravinsky's ballet "Le sacre du printemps" premiere sparks
riot in Paris, France, 1913
05/29 Claude Debussy's ballet "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" premieres in
Paris, France, 1912
05/29 Isaac Albeniz is born, 1860
05/29 Erich Korngold is born in Brno, Austria-Hungary, 1897
05/29 Josef Suk dies, 1935
05/31 The Who perform the loudest concert ever -- 76,000 watts of PA, 1976
05/31 Franz Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna, Austria, 1809
06/01 The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967
06/01 Mikhail Glinka is born, 1804
06/02 Edward William Elgar is born in Lower Broadheath, England, 1857
06/03 Georges Bizet dies in Bougival, Paris, France, 1875
06/03 Aram Khachaturian is born in Tiflis, Georgia, 1903
06/03 Andres Segovia dies in Madrid due to heart attack, 1987
06/03 Johann Strauss II dies of pneumonia in Vienna, 1899
06/05 Carl Maria von Weber dies in London, England, 1826
06/05 Orlando Gibbons dies, 1625
06/06 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, 1955
06/06 Dee Dee Ramone dies, 2002
06/06 Hanns Eisler is born in Leipzig, 1898
06/07 Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, 1969
06/08 Robert Schumann is born in Zwickau, Germany, 1810
06/08 Hans Leo Hassler dies, 1612
06/08 Gordon Jacob dies, 1984
06/09 Les Paul (Lester Polfus) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1923
06/09 Carl Nielsen is born in Sortelung, Denmark, 1865
06/10 Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910
06/10 Judy Garland is born, 1922
06/10 Ernest Chausson dies in Limary, Seine-et-Oise, France, 1899
06/11 Richard Strauss is born in Munich, Germany, 1864
06/12 John Ireland dies, 1962
06/13 Carlos Chavez is born in Popotla, Mexico, 1899
06/15 Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941
06/15 Edvard Hagerup Grieg is born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
06/15 John Philip Sousa's march "The Washington Post" premiered, 1889
06/15 Robert Russell Bennett is born, 1894
06/16 The Monterey Pop festival opens, 1967
06/16 Maurice Durufle dies in Paris, France, 1986
06/17 Igor Stravinsky is born in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), Russia, 1882
06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 1942
06/18 Richard Rogers is born in Long Island, New York, 1902
06/20 Jacques Offenbach is born in Cologne, Germany, 1819
06/21 Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948
06/21 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov dies in Lyubensk, Russia, 1908
06/21 Alan Hovhaness dies in Seattle, Washington, 2000
06/22 Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 1948
06/22 Darius Milhaud dies in Geneva, Switzerland, 1974
06/23 Reinhold Gliere dies, 1956
06/24 Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, 1944
06/25 Alberto Ginastera dies in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983
06/25 Georg Philipp Telemann dies in Hamburg, Germany, 1767
06/25 Michael Joseph Jackson dies in Los Angeles, California, 2009
06/27 Elvis Presley's last concert, 1977
06/27 John Entwistle dies in Las Vegas, 2002
07/01 Erik Satie dies in Paris, France, 1925
07/02 Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969
07/02 Christoph Willibald Gluck is born in Erasbach, Upper Palatinate,
Bavaria, Germany, 1714
07/03 Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971
07/03 Louis Durey dies in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, 1979
07/03 Leos Janacek is born in Hukvaldy, Moravia, 1854
07/04 Astor Piazzolla dies, 1992
07/05 Gordon Jacob is born, 1895
07/07 Gustav Mahler is born in Kalischt, Bohemia, 1860
07/06 The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965
07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940
07/07 Leo Sowbery dies in Port Clinton, Ohio, 1968
07/08 Percy Grainger is born near Melbourne, Australia, 1882
07/08 Hans Leo Hassler is born in Nuremberg, Germany, 1564
07/09 Ottorino Respighi is born in Bologna, Italy, 1879
07/09 Randall Thompson dies, 1984
07/10 Carl Orff is born in Munich, Germany, 1895
07/11 George Gershwin dies in Hollywood, California, 1937
07/12 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979
07/13 Arnold Schoenberg dies in Los Angeles, California, 1951
07/14 Woodie Guthrie is born, 1912
07/15 Carl Czerny dies, 1857
07/15 Ernest Bloch dies, 1959
07/16 Cream forms in the U.K., 1966
07/16 Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981
07/17 "Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilion, 1968
07/20 Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947
07/23 Georges Auric dies, 1983
07/23 Domenico Scarlatti dies in Madrid, Spain, 1757
07/24 Ernest Bloch is born, 1880
07/25 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965
07/25 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969
07/26 Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943
07/27 Enrique Granados is born in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, 1867
07/28 Johann Sebastian Bach dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1750
07/28 The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973
07/28 Antonio Vivaldi dies in Vienna, Austria, 1741
07/29 Robert Schumann dies in Endenich, Bonn, Germany, 1856
07/31 Franz Liszt dies shortly before 11:30 in Bayreuth, Germany, 1886
08/01 The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971
08/02 Carlos Chavez dies in the Coyoacan suburb of Mexico City, 1978
08/04 John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus",
1966
08/04 William Howard Schuman is born in the Bronx, New York, 1910
08/05 Guillaume Dufay is born near Brussels, 1397 (date uncertain)
08/09 Dmitri Shostakovich dies of lung cancer in Moscow, Russia, 1975
08/10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
08/10 Alexander Glazunov is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1865
08/12 Giovanni Gabrieli dies due to a kidney stone, 1612
08/12 Maurice Greene is born in London, 1696
08/12 Leos Janacek dies in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1928
08/13 Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951
08/13 The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete
performance of Wagner's "Ring Cycle", 1876
08/13 John Ireland is born, 1879
08/13 Jules Emile Frederic Massenet dies, 1912
08/15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey, 1962
08/15 The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965
08/15 Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969
08/15 Jacques Ibert is born, 1890
08/16 Elvis Presley [allegedly] dies at Graceland, 1977
08/17 Robert Russell Bennett dies, 1981
08/18 Antonio Salieri is born in Legnago, Italy, 1750
08/19 George Enescu is born in Leveni, Romania, 1881
08/21 Joe Strummer (The Clash), born John Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, 1952
08/22 Claude Debussy is born in Yvelines, France, 1862
08/23 Keith Moon is born in London, England, 1946
08/24 Paul Creston dies, 1985
08/25 Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1918
08/26 Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970
08/26 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970
08/26 Ralph Vaughan Williams dies, 1958
08/27 Josquin Des Prez dies in Conde, 1521
08/29 Michael Joseph Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, 1958
09/01 Engelbert Humperdinck is born in Siegburg, Germany, 1854
09/04 Edvard Grieg dies in Bergen, Norway, 1907
09/04 Anton Bruckner is born in Ansfelden, Austria, 1824
09/04 Darius Milhaud is born in Aix-en-Provence, France, 1892
09/06 Hanns Eisler dies in East Berlin, 1962
09/07 Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978
09/07 Warren Zevon dies in Los Angeles, California, 2003
09/08 Anton Dvorak is born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841
09/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno,
California, 1945
09/08 Richard Strauss dies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1949
09/08 Carlo Gesualdo dies in Avellino in isolation, 1613
09/08 Nicolas de Grigny is baptized, 1672
09/11 Francois Couperin dies, 1733
09/12 John-Philippe Rameau dies, 1764
09/13 Arnold Schoenberg is born in Vienna, Austria, 1874
09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814
09/15 Anton Webern is shot dead by a drunk US soldier in Austria, 1945
09/15 Horatio Parker is born in Auburndale, Massachusetts, 1863
09/16 B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925
09/16 Nadia Boulanger is born, 1887
09/16 Hildegard von Bingen is born into family of nobles, 1098
09/17 Hildegard von Bingen dies, 1179
09/17 Franz Xaver Sussmayr dies, 1803
09/18 Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) born in Fort Lee, Virginia, 1952
09/19 Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981
09/20 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973
09/20 Jean Sibelius dies in Ainola, Finland, 1957
09/20 Pablo de Sarasate dies in Biarritz, France, 1908
09/21 Gustav Holst is born in Cheltenham, England, 1874
09/22 Wagner's "Das Rheingold" premiers at the Munich Court Theater, 1869
09/23 "Paul is dead" rumors sweep the country, 1969
09/23 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949
09/24 Vaclav Nelhybel is born, 1919
09/25 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980
09/25 Dmitri Shostakovich is born in St. Petersberg, Russia, 1906
09/25 Jean Francaix dies, 1997
09/25 John-Philippe Rameau is born in France, 1683
09/26 Bela Bartok dies in New York City, 1945
09/27 Engelbert Humperdinck dies, 1921
09/26 George Gershwin is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1898
09/30 Virgil Thomson dies, 1989
10/01 Paul Dukas is born in Paris, France, 1865
10/01 Roy Harris dies, 1979
10/03 Carl Nielsen dies in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931
10/04 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970
10/05 Steve Miller is born in Dallas, Texas, 1943
10/05 Jacques Offenbach dies in Paris, France, 1880
10/05 Silvestre Revueltas dies in Mexico City, 1940
10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940
10/09 John Entwistle is born in London, England, 1944
10/09 Camille Saint-Saens is born in Paris, 1835
10/10 John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946
10/10 Paul Creston is born, 1906
10/10 Giuseppe Verdi is born in Le Roncole, near Busseto, Italy, 1813
10/11 Anton Bruckner dies in Vienna, Austria, 1896
10/12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966
10/12 Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002
10/12 Ralph Vaughan Williams is born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, 1872
10/14 Leonard Bernstein dies in New York City, 1990
10/16 Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947
10/17 "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967
10/17 Frederic Chopin dies in Paris, France, 1849
10/18 Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, 1926
10/20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977
10/20 Charles Edward Ives dies in New York City, 1954
10/20 Max Bruch dies, 1920
10/21 "Jesus Christ Super Star" debuted on Broadway, 1971
10/21 Sir Malcolm Arnold is born, 1921
10/22 Franz Liszt born in Doborjan, Hungary, 1811
10/22 Pablo Casals dies in Puerto Rico, 1973
10/22 Nadia Boulanger dies, 1979
10/22 Louis Spohr dies in Frankfurt, Germany, 1859
10/24 Luciano Berio is born, 1925
10/24 Alessandro Scarlatti dies in Naples, 1725
10/25 Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944
10/25 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964
10/25 Georges Bizet is born, 1838
10/25 Johann Strauss II, "The Waltz King", is born in Vienna, 1825
10/26 Domenico Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy, 1685
10/27 Niccolo Paganini is born in Genoa, Italy, 1782
10/28 Howard Hanson is born in Wahoo, Nebraska, 1896
10/29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971
10/30 Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939
11/02 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968
11/02 Keith Emerson is born, 1944
11/03 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972
11/04 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1847
11/04 Gabriel Faure dies from pneumonia in Paris, France, 1924
11/06 Ray Conniff born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, 1916
11/06 John Philip Sousa, "The March King", is born, 1854
11/06 Edgard Varese dies, 1965
11/06 Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1893
11/07 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943
11/07 Germaine Tailleferre dies in Paris, France, 1983
11/08 Patti Page born, 1927
11/09 The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967
11/10 Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948
11/10 Francois Couperin is born, 1668
11/12 Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945
11/12 Walter Piston dies in Belmont, Massachusetts, 1976
11/12 Alexander Borodin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1833
11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942
11/13 Gioacchino Rossini dies at his summer home in Passy, France, 1868
11/14 Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1900
11/15 Christoph Willibald Gluck dies in Vienna, Austria, 1787
11/16 Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965
11/17 Heitor Villa-Lobos dies, 1959
11/18 Carl Maria von Weber is born in Eutin, Germany, 1786
11/19 Franz Schubert dies in Vienna, Austria, 1828
11/20 Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946
11/20 Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947
11/21 Henry Purcell dies, 1695
11/22 Benjamin Britten is born, 1913
11/22 Barnardo Pasquini dies in Rome, 1710
11/23 Thomas Tallis dies, 1585
11/24 Scott Joplin born near Linden, Texas, 1867
11/25 "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976
11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867
11/25 Virgil Thomson is born in Missouri, 1896
11/26 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968
11/26 Paul Hindemith is born in Hanau, Germany, 1895
11/27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942
11/27 Guillaume Dufay dies in Cambrai, 1474
11/27 Arthur Honegger dies near Paris, 1955
11/28 Jean-Baptiste Lully is born in Florence, 1632
11/29 Pau Casals born in Vendrell, 1876
11/29 Erich Korngold dies in Hollywood, 1957
11/29 Giacomo Puccini dies due to throat cancer in Brussels, Belgium, 1924
11/30 George Harrison dies at 13:30 in L.A., 2001
11/30 Wilhelm Furtwangler dies in Baden-Baden, Germany, 1954
11/30 Nicolas de Grigny dies, 1703
12/01 Jeremiah Clarke dies, 1707
12/01 Maurice Greene dies, 1755
12/02 Aaron Copland dies in Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow), New York, 1990
12/03 Anton Webern is born in Vienna, Austria, 1883
12/04 Frank Zappa dies in his Laurel Canyon home shortly before 18:00, 1993
12/04 Lord Benjamin Britten dies, 1976
12/05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria, 1791
12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877
12/06 The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969
12/07 Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942
12/07 Bernardo Pasquini is born in Tuscany, Italy, 1637
12/08 Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
12/08 John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
12/08 Jean Sibelius is born in Hameenlinna, Finland, 1865
12/09 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973
12/10 Morton Gould is born in Richmond Hill, New York, 1913
12/10 Oliver Messiaen is born in Avignon, France, 1908
12/11 Hector Berlioz is born at La cote-Saint-Andre, France, 1803
12/13 Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949
12/14 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach dies, 1788
12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877
12/16 Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971
12/16 Zoltan Kodaly is born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1882
12/16 Camille Saint-Saens dies of pneumonia in Algiers, 1921
12/17 Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonn, Germany, 1770
12/18 Horatio Parker dies in Cedarhurst, New York, 1919
12/21 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940
12/21 Silvestre Revueltas born in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mexico, 1899
12/22 Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 6 premier, under
rehearsed, at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria, 1808
12/22 Edgard Varese is born in France, 1883
12/22 Jean-Joseph Mouret dies in Charenton, France, 1738
12/22 Giacomo Puccini is born in Lucca, Italy, 1858
12/23 First Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, Thespis, 1871
12/23 Joe Strummer (born John Mellor) dies in Broomfield, England, 2002
12/23 Edward MacDowell is born in New York, 1860
12/24 Alban Berg dies in Vienna, Austria, 1935
12/24 John Dunstable dies, 1453
12/25 John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" composed, 1896
12/25 Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 to honor the
fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989, changing "freude" to "freedom"
12/25 Orlando Gibbons is born in Oxford, England, 1583
12/28 Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, 1946
12/28 Paul Hindemith dies in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1963
12/28 Maurice Ravel dies in Paris, France, 1937
12/30 Dmitri Kabalevsky is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1904
12/30 Richard Rogers dies, 1979
12/31 Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969
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