Birthdays of composers.

[BBMmk2]

Here's a happy birthdsay to Cloughie!!
Have a great day!!

[scottycelt]

This thread is such fun (thanks, ts!) am I allowed to expand it (at least temporarily) to include mere non-composing mortals?


Not content with the likes of Samuel Wesley and the John Baptist guy I see my impressively righteous list also includes Mark Moses and George Thorogood.

Perhaps a good deal more unsurprisingly I also share my birthday honours with Phil Knight, Pete Duel, Kurt Tank, Floyd Mayweather Jnr, Wilhelm Grimm & Earl Sweatshirt.


My only real classical music connections appear to be Enrico Caruso and, rather more tenuously, Honus Wagner.

[BBMmk2]

Not if you're a Sun Treader!

that's the piece i was thinking of Cloughie!! Shame he concentrated on painting later on?

[mercia]

After further investigation Ferdinand Franzl (1767) and Sverre Jordan (1972) is all I could find. Who were they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Fr%C3%A4nzl

can't help you with Sverre, except he was Norwegian and wikipedia Norway thinks he was born on May 25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22I0ZTqLI74

[antongould]

The only birthday buddy of mine I have heard of is Harry Partch .....I find I share an exact birthday with a member of Dire Straits could I possibly share his fortune?

[salymap]

I think I share my birthday with an American conductor of the past, but have forgotten which one

My one claim to fame is that on the day I was born the BBC announced. 'Today there is no news, we will play some music'

They trot this out in the 'events on this day' bit on R4 every year.

[mercia]

if I have the right day salymap, you share a birthday with Carissimi, Suppe, Miklos Rozsa and Stokowski

[salymap]

if I have the right day salymap, you share a birthday with Carissimi, Suppe, Miklos Rozsa and Stokowski

Well, 18th April 1930 mercia. A virtual pressie for you if you got it

[mercia]

18th April 1930

a Good Friday, which is maybe why there wasn't much news - let's hope they played some appropriate GF music

the French organist/composer Jean Guillou was born 18 April 1930, as was the 1933 Derby winner Hyperion

[BBMmk2]

[QUOTE=mercia;302456]a Good Friday, which is maybe why there wasn't much news - let's hope they played some appropriate GF music

the French organist/composer Jean Guillou was born 18 April 1930, as was the 1933 Derby winner Hyperion [/QUOTEA hporse named hyperion?Gawd!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mine is shared with Carl Nielsen and Cole Porter.

Happy Birthday Carl, Cole and Cloughie!

... now, that would've made a great AA puzzle!


And, again, to Bbm and anyone else who shares today's date.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5w3b7P24p4

(partly inspired by a misunderstanding of Bbm's "appropriate GF Music"!)

[salymap]

[QUOTE=Brassbandmaestro;302457]

a Good Friday, which is maybe why there wasn't much news - let's hope they played some appropriate GF music

the French organist/composer Jean Guillou was born 18 April 1930, as was the 1933 Derby winner Hyperion [/QUOTEA hporse named hyperion?Gawd!!

Well,off topic, it's very unfair that,with that link to a Derby winner, I never, ever, won a penny.
My dad came from Ewell, near Epsom, and we often went to the Derby. All my pocket money wasted

[Richard Tarleton]

Mine include a flute playing emperor, a famous castrato and a writer and composer whose amorous adventures are the subject of an opera from la belle epoque.

[MrGongGong]

Happy Birthday Carl, Cole and Cloughie!

... now, that would've made a great AA puzzle!


And, again, to Bbm and anyone else who shares today's date.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5w3b7P24p4

(partly inspired by a misunderstanding of Bbm's "appropriate GF Music"!)

or this might be more your thing ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBOmMlHOMkE

[rauschwerk]

In my case:- Franz Liszt, Fidelio Finke (remember that Previn programme?) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.