Marc Antonio Cesti (1623-1669)
Leonardo Leo (1694-1744)
Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
Hans Gál (1890-1987)
Erich Kleiber (1890-1956)
Betsy Jolas (1926)
Stoika Milanova (1945)
Mark O'Connor (1961)
and
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
Wendell Berry (1934)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1978, the citizens of Patowan, Utah, decided to name a
local mountain Mr. Messiaen, in honor of the French composer, Olivier
Messiaen, who spent a month in Utah in 1973 an composed a symphonic
work, "Des canyons aux etoiles" (From the canyons to the stars), which
glorified the natural beauty of the region
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