Ivor Novello (1883-1951)
Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991)
Malcolm Frager (1935-1991)
Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (1941-2010)
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960)
and
Molière (1622-1673)
Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872)
Andreas William Heinesen (1900-1991)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1941
Messiaen's "Quartet
for the End of Time" was premiered at Stalag VIII-A, a German prisoner of war camp
in Görlitz (Silesia), with the composer at the piano and
fellow-prisoners Jean Le Boulaure (violin), Henri Akoka (clarinet) and
Etienne Pasquier (cello).
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