Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Georges Martin Witkowski (1867-1943)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Karl Straube (1873-1950)
Earl Kim (1920-1998)
David Bernstein (1942)
Alexander Baillie (1956)
and
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Wright Morris (1910-1998)
E. L. Doctorow (1931-1915)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1733, this notice appears in the Leipzig
newspaper Nachtricht auch Frag u. Anzeiger: "Tonight at 8 o'clock there
will be a Bach Concert at the Zimmermann Coffeehouse on Catharine
Street". This presumably featured secular vocal works, chamber music and
concertos performed by the Leipzig Collegium, an ensemble directed by
J.S. Bach.
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