composers calendar 2016

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2016JANUARYSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Milt Jackson, 1923

2Sir Michael Tippett, 1905

3Victor Borge, 1909Stephen Stills, 1945

4Giovanni Pergolesi, 1710Lionel Newman, 1916

5 6Alexander Scriabin,1872Earl Scruggs, 1924

7Francis Poulenc, 1899Ulysses Simpson Kay, 1917Jean-Pierre Rampal,1922Tommy Johnson, 1935

8Lowell Mason, 1792Elvis Presley, 1935

9Joan Baez, 1941Dave Matthews, 1967

10Rod Stewart, 1945

11Reinhold Glière, 1875

12 13 14Albert Schweitzer, 1875Billy Butterfield, 1917

15Gene Krupa, 1909

16Ethel Merman, 1909Marilyn Horne, 1934

17Eartha Kitt, 1927

18Emmanuel Chabrier, 1841

19Janis Joplin, 1943Dolly Parton, 1946Robert Palmer, 1949

20Walter Piston, 1894

21Placido Domingo, 1941

22 23Muzio Clementi, 1752

24Norman Dello Joio, 1913Neil Diamond, 1941

25 26Stéphane Grappelli, 1908Eddie Van Halen, 1955

27Wolfgang AmadeusMozart, 1756Jerome Kern, 1885

28Arthur Rubinstein, 1887

29Leslie Bricusse, 1931

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31Franz Schubert, 1797Philip Glass, 1937Phil Collins, 1951


2016FEBRUARYSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Francesco Stradivari, 1671Victor Herbert, 1859James P. Johnson, 1894Renata Tebaldi, 1922

2Jascha Heifetz, 1901Graham Nash, 1942Shakira, 1977

3Felix Mendelssohn, 1809Luigi Dallapiccola, 1904

4Erich Leinsdorf, 1912

5 6Natalie Cole, 1950

7Eubie Blake, 1883Garth Brooks, 1962

8John Williams, 1932

9Alban Berg, 1885Carole King, 1942

10Leontyne Price, 1927

11Sergio Mendez, 1941

12Roy Harris, 1898

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14 15Michael Praetorius,1571Harold Arlen, 1905

16John Corigliano, 1938

17Arcangelo Corelli, 1653Alec Wilder, 1907

18Yoko Ono, 1933Teresa Jennings, 1956Karl Hitzemann, 1965

19Smokey Robinson, 1940

20Carl Czerny, 1791

21Léo Delibes, 1836Andrés Segovia, 1893

22 23George Frideric Handel, 1685

24Michel Legrand, 1932Rupert Holmes, 1947

25George Harrison, 1943

26Michael Bolton, 1954

27Enrico Caruso, 1873

28 29Gioacchino Rossini, 1792Jimmy Dorsey, 1904

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MARCHSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Frédéric Chopin, 1810Glenn Miller, 1904Harry Belafonte, 1927

2Bedrich Smetana, 1824Kurt Weill, 1900

3 4Antonio Vivaldi, 1678Mario Davidovsky,1934

5Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887

6Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944

7Maurice Ravel, 1875

8Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1714Alan Hovaness, 1911

9Samuel Barber, 1910

10 11Carl Ruggles, 1876Henry Cowell, 1897Bobby McFerrin, 1950

12Thomas Arne, 1710

13 14Georg PhilippTelemann, 1681Johann Strauss, Sr., 1804Quincy Jones, 1933

15 16Christa Ludwig, 1928

17Nat “King” Cole, 1917

18Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1844

19Max Reger, 1873

20 21Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685Modest Mussorgsky, 1839Marian McPartland, 1918

22Stephen Sondheim, 1930Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1948

23 24 25Arturo Toscanini, 1867Béla Bartók, 1881Aretha Franklin, 1942Elton John, 1947

26Pierre Boulez, 1925Diana Ross, 1944

27Ferde Grofé, 1892Sarah Vaughan, 1924Mstislav Rostropovich, 1927

28Rudolf Serkin, 1903

29William Walton, 1902Richard RodneyBennett, 1936

30 31Franz Joseph Haydn,1732

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APRILSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Ferruccio Busoni, 1866Sergei Rachmaninoff,1873

2Marvin Gaye, 1939

3 4Elmer Bernstein,1922

5Herbert von Karajan, 1908

6Gerry Mulligan, 1927André Previn, 1929Merle Haggard, 1937

7Billie Holiday, 1915

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10Mandy Moore, 1984

11Joss Stone, 1987

12Imogen Holst, 1907Vince Gill, 1957

13 14Morton Subotnick, 1933

15Bessie Smith, 1894

16Henry Mancini, 1924

17 18Franz von Suppé, 1819Leopold Stokowski, 1882

19Dudley Moore, 1935

20Lionel Hampton, 1908Tito Puente, 1923Luther Vandross, 1951

21 22Sir Yehudi Menuhin, 1916Charles Mingus, 1922Michael Colgrass, 1932Glen Campbell, 1936

23Sergei Prokofiev, 1891Roy Orbison, 1936

24Joe Henderson, 1937John Williams (guitarist), 1941Barbra Streisand, 1942

25Ella Fitzgerald, 1917Albert King, 1923

26 27 28 29Wallingford Riegger, 1885Edward KennedyEllington, 1899Zubin Mehta, 1936

30Franz Lehár, 1870Robert Shaw, 1916Willie Nelson, 1933

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MAYSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Kate Smith, 1909

2Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660Lorenz Hart, 1895

3Bing Crosby, 1903Pete Seeger, 1919James Brown, 1933

4Maynard Ferguson, 1928

5 6 7Johannes Brahms, 1833Peter IlyichTchaikovsky, 1840

8Louis Gottschalk, 1829

9Billy Joel, 1949

10Milton Babbitt, 1916

11Irving Berlin, 1888

12Jules Massenet, 1842Gabriel Fauré, 1845

13Sir Arthur Sullivan,1842Gil Evans, 1912Stevie Wonder, 1950

14Otto Klemperer, 1885

15Arthur Berger, 1912

16Woody Herman, 1913Janet Jackson, 1966

17Erik Satie, 1866Peter Mennin, 1923

18 19 20 21Thomas “Fats” Waller, 1904

22Richard Wagner, 1813Sean Gill, 1976

23 24Bob Dylan, 1941

25Beverly Sills, 1929

26Miles Davis, 1926

27Thea Musgrave, 1928Mike Wilson, 1957

28György Ligeti, 1923

29Isaac Albéniz, 1860Eric Korngold, 1897Yannis Xenakis, 1922

30Benny Goodman, 1909

31Peter Yarrow, 1938


2016JUNESunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Mikhail Glinka, 1804

2Edward Elgar, 1857

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5 6Aram Khatchaturian, 1903Vincent Persichetti, 1915

7George Szell, 1897

8Tomaso Albinoni, 1671Robert Schumann, 1810

9Carl Nielsen, 1865Cole Porter, 1891Les Paul, 1915Charles Wuorinen, 1938

10Frederick Loewe, 1901Judy Garland, 1922

11Richard Strauss, 1864

12Chick Corea, 1941

13Carlos Chávez, 1899Donald Riggio, 1926

14 15Edvard Grieg, 1843Otto Luening, 1900Errol Garner, 1921

16 17Charles Gounod, 1818Igor Stravinsky, 1882

18Sammy Cahn, 1913Paul McCartney, 1942

19 20Jacques Offenbach, 1819Lionel Richie, 1949

21 22 23 24Harry Partch, 1901

25Carly Simon, 1945

26Jacob Druckman, 1928

27 28Richard Rodgers, 1902

29Leroy Anderson, 1908Bernard Herrmann, 1911

30Lena Horne, 1917


2016JULYSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899

2Christoph W. von Gluck, 1714Frederick Fennell, 1914

3Leos Janácek, 1854Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1901Pete Fountain, 1930

4* William Byrd, 1623 (date of death)Stephen Collins Foster, 1826

5Wanda Landowska, 1879Gordon Jacob, 1895Paul Jennings, 1948

6 7Gustav Mahler, 1860Gian Carlo Menotti,1911Doc Severinsen, 1927Ringo Starr, 1940

8Percy Grainger, 1882

9Ottorino Respighi, 1879David Diamond, 1915

10Carl Orff, 1895Arlo Guthrie, 1947

11 12Van Cliburn, 1934

13Karl Erb, 1877

14Woody Guthrie, 1912

15Julian Bream, 1933Linda Ronstadt, 1946

16Pinchas Zukerman, 1948

17Peter Schickele, 1935P.D.Q. Bach, 1???Phoebe Snow, 1952

18 19 20Carlos Santana, 1947

21Isaac Stern, 1920

22 23

24Ernest Bloch, 1880Billy Taylor, 1921Peter Serkin, 1947

25 26Serge Koussevitsky,1874Mick Jagger, 1943

27 28 29Frank Loesser, 1910

30David Sanborn, 1945

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2016AUGUSTSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Lionel Bart, 1930Jerry Garcia, 1942

2Arthur Bliss, 1891

3Tony Bennett, 1926

4Louis Armstrong, 1901William Schuman, 1910

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7Karel Husa, 1921

8Cécile Chaminade, 1857

9 10Alexander Glazunov, 1865

11 12* Giovanni Gabrieli,1612 (date of death)

13John Ireland, 1879Kathleen Battle, 1948

14 15Jacques Ibert, 1890Lukas Foss, 1922Oscar Peterson, 1925

16Bill Evans, 1929

17 18Antonio Salieri, 1750

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21Lili Boulanger, 1893William “Count” Basie, 1904

22Claude Debussy, 1862Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1928

23Ernst Krenek, 1900

24Stephen Paulus, 1949

25Leonard Bernstein, 1918

26Branford Marsalis, 1960

27Ann Murray, 1949

28Shania Twain, 1965

29Charlie Parker, 1920

30 31Itzhak Perlman, 1945


2016SEPTEMBERSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Johann Pachelbel, 1653Engelbert Humperdinck, 1854Seiji Ozawa, 1935Leonard Slatkin, 1944

2 3Nicolo Amati, 1596

4Anton Bruckner, 1824Darius Milhaud, 1892

5Johann Christian Bach, 1735Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1791Amy Beach, 1867John Cage, 1912

6 7Buddy Holly, 1936

8Anton Dvorak, 1841Patsy Cline, 1932

9Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583

10Jose Feliciano, 1945

11 12 13Clara Wieck Schumann, 1819Arnold Schoenberg, 1874Mel Torme, 1925

14Luigi Cherubini, 1760

15Bruno Walter, 1876Jessye Norman, 1945

16Nadia Boulanger, 1887Charlie Byrd, 1925B. B. King, 1925

17David Ellsworth, 1953John Riggio, 1968

18 19 20F. “Jelly Roll” Morton, 1885

21Gustav Holst, 1874

22 23John Coltrane, 1926Ray Charles, 1930Julio Iglesias, 1943Bruce Springsteen, 1949

24Fisher Tull, 1934

25Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1683Dimitri Shostakovich, 1906Glenn Gould, 1932

26George Gershwin, 1898

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2016OCTOBERSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Paul Dukas, 1865Vladimir Horowitz, 1904

2Sting (Gordon Sumner), 1951

3Gwen Stefani, 1969

4 5Bob Geldolf, 1951

6 7William Billings, 1746John Mellencamp, 1951Yo Yo Ma, 1955Michael W. Smith, 1957

8Heinrich Schütz, 1585

9Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835John Lennon, 1940

10Giuseppe Verdi, 1813Paul Creston, 1906Thelonious Monk, 1917

11Art Blakey, 1919

12Ralph VaughanWilliams, 1872Luciano Pavarotti, 1935

13Art Tatum, 1909

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16 17 18Chuck Berry, 1926Jacques Carpentier, 1933Wynton Marsalis, 1961

19 20Charles Ives, 1874Robert Craft, 1923

21George Solti, 1912J. B. “Dizzy” Gillespie, 1917Malcolm Arnold, 1921

22Franz Liszt, 1811

23Ned Rorem, 1923“Weird Al” Yankovic, 1959

24Luciano Berio, 1925George Crumb, 1929

25Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825Georges Bizet, 1838

26Domenico Scarlatti, 1685Mahalia Jackson, 1911

27Niccolo Paganini, 1782

28Howard Hanson, 1896

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2016NOVEMBERSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Anne Ellsworth, 1963

2Johnny Richards, 1911

3Vincenzo Bellini, 1801Vladimir Ussachevsky,1911

4 5Art Garfunkle, 1941

6Adolphe Sax, 1814John Philip Sousa, 1854Gus Kahn, 1886

7Joan Sutherland, 1926Joni Mitchell, 1943

8Judith Lang Zaimont, 1945 Bonnie Raitt, 1949

9 10François Couperin, 1668Ennio Morricone, 1928 Tim Rice, 1944

11 12Alexander Borodin, 1833Neil Young, 1945

13 14Leopold Mozart, 1719Johann Hummel, 1778Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, 1805Aaron Copland, 1900Wendy Carlos, 1939

15 16W. C. Handy, 1873Paul Hindemith, 1895

17David Amram, 1930

18Carl Maria von Weber,1786Ignace Jan Paderewski,1860Eugene Ormandy, 1899Johnny Mercer, 1909

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20 21 22Hoagy Carmichael, 1899Benjamin Britten, 1913Gunther Schuller, 1925

23Manuel de Falla, 1876Jerry Bock, 1928Krzysztof Penderecki,1933

24Scott Joplin, 1868

25Virgil Thomson, 1896Amy Grant, 1960

26Tina Turner, 1939

27 28Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632Randy Newman, 1943

29Gaetano Donizetti, 1797Billy Strayhorn, 1915

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2016DECEMBERSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1Bette Midler, 1945

2 3Anton von Webern, 1883Irving Fine, 1914

4Maria Callas, 1923

5José Carreras, 1946

6Dave Brubeck, 1920

7Pietro Mascagni, 1863Ernst Toch, 1887

8Jean Sibelius, 1865Mieczyslaw Weinberg, 1919James Galway, 1939

9Joshua Bell, 1967

10César Franck, 1822Olivier Messiaen, 1908Morton Gould, 1913

11Hector Berlioz, 1803Elliott Carter, 1908

12Frank Sinatra, 1915Dionne Warwick, 1940

13 14ChristopherParkening, 1947

15Stan Kenton, 1911

16Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770Zoltán Kodály, 1882

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18Antonio Stradivari, 1644Edward MacDowell, 1860

19Fritz Reiner, 1888

20John Harbison, 1938

21Frank Zappa, 1940Michael Tilson Thomas, 1944

22Giacomo Puccini, 1858Edgar Varese, 1883

23 24 Libby Larsen, 1950

25Orlando Gibbons, 1583Cab Calloway, 1907Jimmy Buffett, 1946Barbara Ann Mandrell, 1948

26Phil Spector, 1940

27 28Roger Sessions, 1896

29Pablo Casals, 1876

30Dmitri Kabalevsky, 1904

31Odetta Gordon, 1930John Denver, 1943

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