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FAMOUS COMPOSERS BORN IN JANUARY
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame, I simply follow my own feelings." -
Franz Schubert
31 January 1797 - 28 November 1828
"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves." -
Edouard Lalo
27 January 1823 - 22 April 1892
Born into a military family of Spanish descent, Lalo pursued music studies against his father's will and went to Paris, without funds, in 1839 toward that end. -
Cesar Cui
18 January 1835 - 26 March 1918
One of the 5 members of the "Mighty handful". -
Max Bruch
6 January 1838 - 2 October 1920
Bruch gave master classes at the Berlin Hochschule which continued for almost a decade, and Respighi and Vaughan Williams were among his most distinguished pupils. -
Ernest Chausson
20 January 1855 - 10 June 1899
"There are moments when I feel myself driven by a kind of feverish instinct, as if I had the presentiment of being unable to attain my goal, or of attaining it too late." -
Alexander Scriabin
6 January 1872 - 27 April 1915
"I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak." -
Francis Poulenc
7 January 1899 - 30 January 1963
"My music is my portrait." -
Witold Lutoslawski
25 January 1913 - 7 February 1994
"I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!" -
Henri Dutilleux
22 January 1916 - 22 May 2013
"I always doubt my work. I wrote of The Shadows of Time that it was "stained with pessimism", and that is how I feel. I always have regrets."
