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FAMOUS COMPOSERS BORN IN SEPTEMBER
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
8 September 1583 - 1 March 1643
A scandal involving competition between Bentivoglio and the Medici family eventually forced Frescobaldi to leave his position in Bentivoglio's music establishement. -
Johann Pachelbel
1 September 1653 - 9 March 1706
Johann-Christian Bach was Pachelbels landlord in Erfurt. -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
25 September 1683 - 12 September 1764
"Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words." -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
5 September 1735 - 2 May 1864
"Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame." -
Johann Christian Bach
5 September 1735 - 1 January 1782
"If I decide to be an idiot, then I will be an idiot on my own accord." -
Luigi Cherubini
14 September 1760 - 15 March 1842
Cherubini was appointed Napoleon's director of music in Vienna for part of 1805 and 1806. -
Clara Schumann
13 September 1819 - 20 May 1896
"I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me." -
Anton Bruckner
4 September 1824 - 11 October 1896
"They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not." -
Antonin Dvorak
8 September 1841 - 1 May 1904
"The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else." -
Carl Bohm
11 September 1844 - 4 April 1920
Bohms Sarabande in G minor remains a standard teaching piece for intermediate violinists and violists. -
Engelbert Humperdinck
1 September 1854 - 27 September 1921
At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck. -
Leon Boellmann
25 September 1862 - 11 October 1897
Boëllmann was known as "a dedicated teacher, trenchant critic, gifted composer and successful performer who coaxed pleasing sounds out of recalcitrant instruments." -
Amy Beach
5 September 1867 - 27 December 1944
Beach, like her friends in Rome, briefly became an admirer of the Italian dictator Mussolini. -
Arnold Schoenberg
13 September 1874 - 13 July 1951
"There are no more geniuses, only critics." -
Gustav Holst
21 September 1874 - 25 May 1934
"One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising." -
Darius Milhaud
4 September 1892 - 22 June 1974
"The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music." -
George Gershwin
26 September 1898 - 11 July 1937
"Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music." -
Dmitri Shostakovich
25 September 1906 - 9 August 1975
"Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward." -
John Cage
5 September 1912 - 12 August 1992
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." -
Arvo Part
Birthday: 11 September 1935
“I suppose secretly we love one another. It is very beautiful.”
