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Music History Events: Births

January 9, 1839 Composer John Knowles Paine is born in Maine.

January 6, 1838 Romantic composer Max Bruch is born in Cologne, Germany.

November 12, 1833 Composer Aleksandr Borodin, part of a group of Russian composers known as The Five, is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

May 7, 1833 Composer Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany.

October 22, 1832 Conductor and composer Leopold Damrosch is born in Posen, King of Prussia. The violinist would earn a PhD in medicine to appease his parents before turning his focus completely to music.

June 22, 1830 Composer/pianist Theodor Leschetizky is born in Lancut, Poland.

November 28, 1829 Pianist/composer Anton Rubinstein is born in Vikhvatinets, a village in present-day Moldova (formerly part of the Russian Empire).

January 24, 1829 Composer William Mason, who becomes the first American piano student of Franz Liszt and Ignaz Moscheles, is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

November 20, 1827 Composer Edmond Dede is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

March 16, 1823 Hymn composer William Henry Monk is born in London.

December 10, 1822 Composer Cesar Franck is born Cesar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck in Liege (now in Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of Netherlands).

June 20, 1819 Jacques Offenbach, composer and cellist of the Romantic period, is born in Cologne, Germany.

May 22, 1813 Richard Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany.

June 8, 1810 Romantic era composer Robert Schumann is born in Zwickau, Germany.

February 3, 1809 German composer Felix Mendelssohn is born in Hamburg.

November 14, 1805 Composer and pianist Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is born in Hamburg, Germany.

December 11, 1803 Composer Louis-Hector Berlioz is born in Isere, France. Known for his Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts.

November 3, 1801 Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini is born in Catania, Sicily.

January 31, 1797 Austrian composer Franz Schubert is born in Vienna.

June 16, 1792 Francis Johnson, an African American musician and composer during the Antebellum era, is born in Martinique in the West Indies.

September 5, 1791 Opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer is born Jacob Liebmann Beer near Berlin, Germany.

November 18, 1786 German composer Carl Maria von Weber is born in Eutin, Holstein.

October 27, 1782 Niccolò Paganini, composer and violin virtuoso, is born in Genoa (which was then part of an independent state, Republic of Genoa), Italy.

August 1, 1779 Francis Scott Key is born in Carroll County, Maryland.

January 27, 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria.

July 2, 1714 Opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck is born in what is now Bavaria, Germany.

January 17, 1712 English composer John Stanley is born in London.

December 23, 1689 Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier is born in Thionville, France.

October 26, 1685 Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy.

March 31, 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Germany.