Composers

What lands on a date

• 01-07 Francis Poulenc · French composer and member of Les Six. source
• 01-27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Austrian composer of the Classical era. source
• 01-31 Franz Schubert · Austrian composer of songs and symphonies. source
• 01-31 Philip Glass · American composer and pioneer of minimalism. source
• 02-03 Felix Mendelssohn · German composer and conductor of the early Romantic era. source
• 02-09 Alban Berg · Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. source
• 02-23 George Frideric Handel · German-British Baroque composer of oratorios and opera. source
• 02-29 Gioachino Rossini · Italian composer of comic and serious operas. source
• 03-01 Frédéric Chopin · Polish composer and pianist of the Romantic era. source
• 03-02 Bedřich Smetana · Czech composer and founder of Czech national music. source
• 03-07 Maurice Ravel · French composer known for orchestral colour. source
• 03-09 Samuel Barber · American composer of lyrical orchestral and vocal works. source
• 03-18 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Russian composer and master of orchestration. source
• 03-21 Modest Mussorgsky · Russian composer and member of the Mighty Handful. source
• 03-25 Béla Bartók · Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist. source
• 03-31 Johann Sebastian Bach · German Baroque composer of sacred and instrumental masterworks. source
• 03-31 Joseph Haydn · Austrian composer and father of the symphony and string quartet. source
• 04-01 Sergei Rachmaninoff · Russian composer and pianist of the late Romantic era. source
• 04-23 Sergei Prokofiev · Russian composer of ballet, opera, and symphonies. source
• 04-29 Duke Ellington · American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader. source
• 05-07 Johannes Brahms · German composer of the Romantic tradition. source
• 05-07 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Russian composer of ballets, symphonies, and opera. source
• 05-12 Jules Massenet · French opera composer of the Belle Époque. source
• 05-12 Gabriel Fauré · French composer of chamber, song, and sacred works. source
• 05-17 Erik Satie · French composer and precursor of minimalism. source
• 05-22 Richard Wagner · German composer of music dramas. source
• 06-08 Robert Schumann · German Romantic composer and critic. source
• 06-09 Carl Nielsen · Danish composer of symphonies and concertos. source
• 06-11 Richard Strauss · German composer of tone poems and opera. source
• 06-15 Edvard Grieg · Norwegian composer and pianist of national Romanticism. source
• 06-17 Charles Gounod · French composer of opera and sacred music. source
• 06-17 Igor Stravinsky · Russian composer whose works reshaped twentieth-century music. source
• 07-03 Leoš Janáček · Czech composer known for operas and folk-inflected music. source
• 07-07 Gustav Mahler · Austrian composer and conductor of monumental symphonies. source
• 08-04 Louis Armstrong · American jazz trumpeter and singer. source
• 08-22 Claude Debussy · French composer and founder of musical Impressionism. source
• 08-25 Leonard Bernstein · American conductor and composer of Broadway and concert works. source
• 09-04 Anton Bruckner · Austrian composer of expansive symphonies. source
• 09-05 John Cage · American composer and experimental music pioneer. source
• 09-08 Antonín Dvořák · Czech composer of symphonies and chamber music. source

+ 19 more day-precise entries in the corpus.

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.

• Ludwig van Beethoven 1770