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- 1580 Birth of German cantor and kapellmeister Johann Stobaeus in Graudenz. d-Konigsberg 11 SEP 1646.
- 1739 Birth of German organist Friedrich Rust in Woorlitz. d-Dessau, 28 FEB 1796.
- 1851 Birth of composer Carl Lorens
- 1864 Birth of Brazilian composer Alberto Nepomuceno, in Fortaleza. d-Rio de Janero, 16 OCT 1920.
- 1865 Birth of French-Austrian composer and teacher Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Vienna. d-Geneva, 1 JUL 1950
- 1877 Birth of composer David Stanley Smith
- 1898 Birth of German composer Hans Eisler, in Leipzig
- 1902 Death of Brazilian conductor Leopoldo Americo Miguez in Rio de Janero. b-Rio de Janero, 9 SEP 1850.
- 1906 Birth of English composer Dame Elizabeth Lutyens, in London
- 1913 Grand Prix de Rome music award is given to 19 year-old French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), the first woman to be so honored in Paris.
- 1915 Death of French pianist and organist Paul Etienne Wachs in St Mande. b-Paris, 19 SEP 1851.
- 1927 Birth of composer Charles Whittenberg
- 1952 Birth of composer Stephen Hartke
- 1963 FP of Leslie Bassett's "Variations for Orchestra," in Rome; Following the American premiere on October 22, 1965 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, this work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1966
- 1968 FP of David Del Tredici's "Syzygy" (to a text by James Joyce), in New York City
- 1973 Death of German conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, age 88, in Zürich. b-Breslau, 14 MAY 1885.
- 1977 FP of Sir Michael Tippett's opera, "The Ice Break" at Covent Garden in London
- 1979 Birth of composer Jeremy Spindler
- 1986 FP of Aribert Reimann's "Troades", in Munich, Germany.
- 1987 FP of Henri Pousseur's "Un Jardin de Passacaille", in Montpellier, France.
- 1991 FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Ubu Rex", in Munich, Germany.
- 1999 Death of Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, age 97, in Madrid
- 2000 Death of composer Ludovit Rajter. b-30 JUL 1906.
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