Josef Mysliveczek (1737-1781)
Archie Camden (1888-1979)
Dame Isobel Baillie (1895-1983)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
David Matthews (1943)
Kalevi Aho (1949)
Howard Shelley (1950)
and
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
Mickey Spillane (1918-2006)
David Pogue (1963)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1831, Italian violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini makes his
Parisian debut a the Opéra. Composers in the audience include Meyerbeer,
Cherubini, Halvéy. and Franz Liszt (who transcribes Pagnini's showpiece
"La Campanella" for piano). Also in attendance are the many famous
novelists and poets, including George Sand, Victor Hugo, Alfred de
Mussset and Heinrich Heine.
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