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Important January Birthdays!
6- Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Russian Composer
7- Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) French composer
7-Jean Pierre Rampal (1922-2000) French virtuoso flutist
20-Walter Piston (1894-1976) Renowned American composer
23-Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) Italian composer and virtuoso pianist
27-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Austrian composer and pianist
30-Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) German composer, flutist, theorist
31-Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Austrian composer
Important February Birthdays!
2-Jascha Heifetz (1901-1989) Russian violinist
3-Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) German Composer
8-John Williams (b.1932) American movie score composer
9-Aaron Zasadny, awesome young flutist
16-Alec Wilder (1907-1980) American Composer of pop, Jazz, and classical music
19-Walfrid Kujala (b. 1925) flutist and piccoloist for Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Shanna’s teacher)
22-Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Polish pianist and composer
23-Georg Friederich Handel (1685-1759) German Composer
25-Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) Italian tenor
29-Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) Italian composer
Important March Birthdays!
4-Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Italian Baroque composer
6- Mary Lee Gibson, awesome young flutist
7-Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) French Impressionist composer
8-C.P.E. Bach (1714-1788) German composer, son of J.S. Bach
11-Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) Argentinian composer and pianist
12-Courtney Vinopal, awesome young flutist
14-Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)German Baroque composer
18-Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Russian composer
21-Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Russian composer
21-J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Greatest of all baroque composers
25-Béla Bartók (1881-1945) Hungarian composer
31-Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809) Austrian composer
Important April Birthdays!
1-Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Virtuoso Russian pianist and composer
4- Brigette Lim, awesome young flutist
5-Albert Roussel (1869-1937) French composer
7- Lauren Ricciardi, awesome young flutist
8– Shanna Gutierrez, flutist and devoted flute teacher
10-Claude Bolling (b.1930) French composer of Jazz for orchestral instruments
11-Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Argentinian composer
26-William Kincaid (1895-1967) Great flute master of 20th century.
27-Sergei Prokofieff (1891-1953) Russian composer, pianist, and violinist
29-Amy Snyder, awesome young flutist, pianist and aspiring music educator
29-Duke Ellington (1899-1974) Virtuoso Jazz musician and composer
Important May Birthdays!
3- Kaia Lenzi, awesome young flutist
7-Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) German romantic composer
7-Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian romantic composer
9- Courtney Jurasek, awesome young flutist
10– Victoria Carot awesome young flutist
13-Corinne Chin, awesome young flutist
15-Molly McGillivray, awesome young flutist
17-Marcel Moyse (1889-1984) Virtuoso French flutist, composer, teacher, father of modern flute playing
17- Erik Satie (1866-1925) French composer
21– Samantha Satzger, awesome young flutist
22-Richard Wagner (1813-1883) German romantic and opera composer
31-Marin Marias (1656-1728) Spanish composer
Important June Birthdays!
2- Sir Edward William Elgar (1857-1934) English composer
6-Aram Il’yich Khachaturian (1903-1978) Armenian Composer
7-George Czell (1897-1970) Hungarian conductor
8-Rober Schumann (1810-1856) German Composer
9- Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Danish Romantic Composer
11-Richard Strauss (1864-1949) German composer and conductor
15-Franz Danzi (1763-1826) German composer and cellist
15-Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Norwegian composer
17-Charles Francois Gounod (1818-1893) French composer
17-Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Russian composer and conductor
23-Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) German Romantic composer
Important July Birthdays!
3-Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941) Famous French flutist
5-Gordon Jacob (1895-1984) American Composer
8-Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961)
7-Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Russian composer
14– Kelsey Bowen Awesome young flutist!
24-Ernest Bloch (1880-1959 ) Swiss composer
28-Jason Leman, awesome young flutist
26- Franz Xavier Mozart (1791-1844) Mozart’s Son
Important August Birthdays!
7-Cameo Wanninger, Awesome young flutist!
8-Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) best known French female composer
15-Jaques Ibert (1890-1962) French composer
18-Benjamin Godard (1849-1895) French composer
18-Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) Italian composer and pianist
19-George Enesco (1881-1955) Romanian composer
22-Claude Debussy (1862-1918) French impressionistic composer
25-Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) American composer and conductor
Important September Birthdays!
1-Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
3-Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764) Italian composer of flute sonatas
4-Anton Joseph Bruckner (1824-1896) Austrian composer and organist
4-Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) French composer
5-J.C.Bach (1735-1782) German composer, youngest surviving son of J.S. Bach
8-Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Czech composer
11- Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) Prolific German composer and flutist
13-Arnold Franz Schoenberg
(1874-1951) 20th century
Austrian composer
16-Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) French flute virtuoso and composer
17-Charles T. Griffes (1884-1920) American composer
21-Gustav Holst (1874-1934) English composer and trombonist
25-Dmitri Schostakovich (1906-1975) Russian composer of 15 symphonies
25-Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) French composer and theorist
29-Jacques Hotteterre (1674-1762) Popular 17th century French composer, flutist, and bassoonist
Important October Birthdays!
1-Vladimir Horowitz (1904-1989) Russian Pianist
3-Steve Reich (b. 1936) American minimalist composer
6-Whitney Reveyrand, awesome young flutist
8-Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) Japanese modern composer
9-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) French composer
10-Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Italian opera composer
16-Albert Franz Doppler (1821-1883)
18-Wynton Marsalis (b.1961) American virtuoso trumpeter and composer
21-Sir Georg Solti (1912-1997) Great 20th Century conductor. Led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969-1991 and won more Grammy Awards (32) than anyone else in history (including rock stars)
22-Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Hungarian composer
24-Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Brilliant Italian composer
25-Georges Bizet (1838-1875) French romantic composer
28-Howard Hanson (1896-1981) American composer
Important November Birthdays!
2- Laura Gutantes, awesome young flutist
6-John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) American composer best known for marches
10-Franois Couperin (1668-1733) French composer
12-Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)Russian Composer
14-Johann G. Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) W.A. Mozart's Father
14-Aaron Copland (1900-1990) American composer
15-Daniel Barenboim (b. 1942) Pianist and conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
16-Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) German composer
17-Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) German Romantic Composer
21-Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) German composer
22-Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) Bach's oldest Son
22-Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) blind Spanish Composer
28-Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) French composer, theorist
Important December Birthdays!
3-Anton von Webern (1883-1945) Austrian composer
8-James Galway (b. 1939) Famous Irish flutist
8-Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) Best known Czech composer
10-Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) French composer and brilliant teacher
11-Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) French composer
14-Laura Brooks, awesome young flutist
15-Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827) German composer and virtuoso pianist
16-Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) Hungarian composer
22-Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Italian Opera composer
29-Pablo
Casals (1876-1973)
Virtuoso Spanish Cellist
