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/*
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* Music
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* $FreeBSD$
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*/
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#ifndef _calendar_music_
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#define _calendar_music_
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01/01 Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942
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01/03 Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945
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01/04 Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979
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01/04 Josef Suk is born in Krecovice, Czechoslovakia, 1874
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01/06 Cesar Cui is born in Vilnius, Russia, 1835
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01/06 Max Bruch is born in Germany, 1838
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01/06 Alexander Scriabin is born in Moscow, 1872
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01/07 Francis Jean Poulenc is born in Paris, 1899
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01/08 Elvis Presley born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, 1935
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01/08 David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947
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01/08 Arcangelo Corelli dies in Italy, 1713
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01/09 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945
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01/10 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976
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01/10 Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943
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01/10 Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952
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01/10 Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945
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01/11 David Bowie dies, 2016
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01/11 Maurice Durufle is born in Louviers, France, 1902
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01/11 Reinhold Gliere is born in Kiev, Russia, 1875
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01/13 Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973
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01/13 Daevid Allen (Gong) is born in Melbourne, 1938
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01/17 Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969
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01/19 Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943
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01/20 Walter Piston is born in Rockland, Maine, 1894
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01/20 Ernest Chausson is born in Paris, 1855
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01/22 Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935
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01/23 Edward MacDowell dies, 1908
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01/24 Warren Zevon is born in Chicago, 1947
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01/25 Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978
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01/25 Wilhelm Furtwangler is born in Berlin, 1886
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01/25 Witold Lutoslawski is born in Warsaw, Poland, 1913
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01/27 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930
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01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, 1756
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01/27 Giuseppe Verdi dies, 1901
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01/27 Eduardo Lalo is born in Lille, France, 1823
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01/28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970
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01/30 Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982
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01/30 Francis Jean Poulenc dies in Paris, 1963
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01/30 Thomas Tallis is born in England, 1505
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01/31 The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970
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01/31 Franz Schubert is born in Lichtenthal, Vienna, Austria, 1797
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02/01 RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949
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02/02 Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942
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02/02 Lou Harrison dies in Lafayette, Indiana, en route to a festival
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of his music at Ohio State University, 2003
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02/02 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dies near Rome, 1594
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02/03 The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big
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Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959
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02/03 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809
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02/03 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is born near Rome, 1525
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02/05 Jacques Ibert dies, 1962
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02/07 Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964
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02/07 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979
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02/07 Witold Lutoslawski dies, 1994
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02/08 John Towner Williams born in New York City, 1932
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02/08 Giuseppe Torelli dies in Bologna, Italy, 1709
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02/09 Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941
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02/09 Alban Berg is born in Vienna, Austria, 1885
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02/12 The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964
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02/12 Roy Harris is born, 1898
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02/13 Richard Wagner dies in Venice, Italy, 1883
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02/14 Dmitri Kabalevsky dies in Moscow, 1987
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02/15 Michael Praetorius is born in Creuzburg (date uncertain), 1571
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02/15 Michael Praetorius dies, 1621
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02/15 Francois Charpentier is born in Paris, 1620
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02/15 William Howard Schuman dies, 1992
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02/15 Georges Auric is born in Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 1899
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02/16 Francois Joseph Gossec dies near Paris, 1829
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02/17 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982
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02/17 Arcangelo Corelli is born in Fusignano, Italy, 1653
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02/18 Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933
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02/19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in
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Britain, 1972
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02/19 William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940
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02/19 Mikhail Glinka dies, 1857
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02/20 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946
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02/20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden... without advertising, 1974
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02/20 Carl Czerny is born, 1791
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02/20 Percy Grainger dies in New York City, 1961
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02/21 Morton Gould dies, 1996
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02/21 Andres Segovia is born in Spain, 1893
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02/23 George Friedrich Handel is born in Halle on the Saale, Germany, 1685
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02/23 Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944
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02/23 Sir Edward William Elgar dies 1934
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02/24 Howard Hanson dies in Rochester, New York, 1981
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02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
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02/27 Alexander Borodin dies, 1887
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02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
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02/29 Gioacchino Rossini is born in Pesaro, Italy, 1792
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03/01 Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969
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03/01 Frederic Chopin is born in Zelazowa Wola, Warsaw, Poland, 1810
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03/02 Lou Reed born in Brooklyn, New York, 1942
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03/02 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949
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03/02 Bedrich Smetana is born, 1824
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03/03 Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966
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03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy, 1678
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03/05 Sergei Prokofiev dies in Moscow within minutes of Stalin, 1953
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03/05 Heitor Villa-Lobos is born, 1887
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03/06 Zoltan Kodaly dies in Budapest, Hungary, 1967
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03/06 John Philip Sousa dies, 1932
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03/06 Edgard Varese's "Ionisation", the first musical composition to use
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only percussion instruments, is premiered at Carnegie Hall, 1933
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03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
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03/07 Maurice Ravel is born in Ciboure, France, 1875
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03/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973
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03/08 Hector Berlioz dies in Paris, 1869
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03/08 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is born, 1714
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03/08 Carlo Gesuldo is born (date uncertain), 1566
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03/08 Alan Hovhaness is born in Somerville, Massachusetts, 1911
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03/09 Robin Trower is born in London, 1945
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03/09 Johann Pachelbel dies in Nuremberg, Germany, 1706
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03/10 Arthur Honegger is born in Le Havre, France, 1892
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03/10 Pablo de Sarasate is born in Pamplona, Spain, 1844
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03/11 Astor Piazzolla is born in Argentina, 1921
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03/13 The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971
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03/13 Cesar Cui dies in Smolensk, Russia, 1918
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03/14 Georg Philipp Telemann is born in Magdeburg, 1681
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03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944
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03/15 Daevid Allen (Gong) dies, 2015
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03/16 Enrique Granados drowns in the English Channel, 1916
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03/17 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942
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03/18 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is born Tikhvin, Russia, 1844
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03/19 Max Reger is born in Brand, Germany, 1873
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03/21 Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany, 1685
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03/21 Modest Mussorgsky is born in Karevo, Pskov (Russia), 1839
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03/21 Alexander Glazunov dies, 1936
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03/22 Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974
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03/22 Jean-Baptiste Lully dies, 1687
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03/22 Vaclav Nelhybel dies, 1996
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03/25 Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943
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03/25 Bela Bartok is born in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary, 1881
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03/25 Claude Debussy dies in Paris, France, 1918 to the sound of World War I
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03/26 Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria, 1827
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03/26 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971
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03/27 Ferde Grofe is born in New York City, 1892
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03/28 Sergei Rachmaninoff dies in Beverly Hills, California, 1943
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03/28 Modest Mussorgsky dies, 1881
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03/29 Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973
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03/29 Carl Orff dies in Munich, Germany, 1982
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03/30 Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945
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03/31 Franz Joseph Haydn is born in Rohrau, Austria, 1732
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04/01 Sergei Rachmaninoff is born in Oneg, Russia, 1873
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04/01 Scott Joplin dies in New York City, 1917
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04/02 Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939
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04/03 Johannes Brahms dies in Vienna, Austria, 1897
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04/03 Ferde Grofe dies in Santa Monica, California, 1972
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04/04 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork,
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Mississippi, 1915
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04/05 Louis Spohr is born in Braunschweig, Germany, 1784
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04/06 Igor Stravinsky dies in New York City, 1971
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04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898
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04/10 Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970
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04/11 Alberto Ginastera is born in Buenos Aires, 1916
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04/14 Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945
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04/14 George Friedrich Handel dies in London, England, 1759
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04/16 Jean-Joseph Mouret is born in Avignon, France, 1682
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04/18 Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981
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04/18 Ottorino Respighi dies in Rome, 1936
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04/18 Franz von Suppe is born in Split, Dalmatia (Croatia), 1819
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04/19 Germaine Tailleferre is born at Saint Maur Des Fosses, Ile-de-France,
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France, 1892
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04/21 Randall Thompson is born, 1899
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04/22 Eduardo Lalo dies in Paris, 1892
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04/22 Giuseppe Torelli is born in Verona, Italy, 1658
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04/25 Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925
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04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
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04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933
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04/27 Sergei Prokofiev is born in Sontsovka, Russia, 1891
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04/27 Oliver Messiaen dies, 1992
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04/27 Alexander Scriabin dies in Moscow from septicemia, 1915
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04/29 "Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968
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04/29 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington is born in Washington, DC, 1899
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05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909
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05/01 Antonin Dvorak dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1904
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05/01 Aram Khachaturian dies in Moscow, 1978
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05/01 Leo Sowerby is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1895
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05/02 Alessandro Scarlatti is born in Sicily, 1660
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05/03 Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945
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05/04 George Enescu dies in Paris, France, 1955
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05/07 Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1833
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05/07 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is born in Votkinsk, Russia, 1840
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05/07 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is premiered in the Karntnertortheater in
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Vienna, Austria, 1824
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05/07 Antonio Salieri dies in Vienna, Austria, 1825
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05/09 Dietrich Buxtehude dies, 1707
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05/10 Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945
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05/11 Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, Florida, 1981
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05/11 Max Reger dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1916
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05/12 Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977
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05/12 Jules Emile Frederic Massenet is born, 1842
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05/12 Berdrich Smetana dies, 1884
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05/14 Lou Harrison is born in Portland, Oregon, 1917
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05/17 Erik Satie is born in Honfleur, France, 1866
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05/17 Paul Dukas dies in Paris, France, 1935
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05/18 Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
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05/18 Gustav Mahler dies in Vienna, Austria, 1911
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05/18 Isaac Albeniz dies, 1909
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05/19 Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945
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05/19 Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, 1874
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05/20 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967
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05/21 Franz von Suppe dies, 1895
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05/22 Richard Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany, 1813
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05/23 Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963
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05/23 Jean Francaix is born, 1912
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05/24 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941
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05/24 Duke Ellington dies, 1974
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05/24 Gabriel Faure is born in Pamiers, Ariege, Midi-Pyrenees, 1845
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05/25 Gustav Holst dies in London, 1934
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05/26 Al Jolson is born, 1886
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05/26 Luciano Berio dies, 2003
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05/27 Louis Durey is born in Paris, France, 1888
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05/27 Niccolo Paganini dies in Nice, Italy, 1840
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05/29 Igor Stravinsky's ballet "Le sacre du printemps" premiere sparks
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riot in Paris, France, 1913
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05/29 Claude Debussy's ballet "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" premieres in
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Paris, France, 1912
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05/29 Isaac Albeniz is born, 1860
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05/29 Erich Korngold is born in Brno, Austria-Hungary, 1897
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05/29 Josef Suk dies, 1935
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05/31 The Who perform the loudest concert ever -- 76,000 watts of PA, 1976
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05/31 Franz Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna, Austria, 1809
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06/01 The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967
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06/01 Mikhail Glinka is born, 1804
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06/02 Edward William Elgar is born in Lower Broadheath, England, 1857
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06/03 Georges Bizet dies in Bougival, Paris, France, 1875
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06/03 Aram Khachaturian is born in Tiflis, Georgia, 1903
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06/03 Andres Segovia dies in Madrid due to heart attack, 1987
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06/03 Johann Strauss II dies of pneumonia in Vienna, 1899
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06/05 Carl Maria von Weber dies in London, England, 1826
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06/05 Orlando Gibbons dies, 1625
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06/05 Dee Dee Ramone dies, 2002
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06/06 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, 1955
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06/06 Hanns Eisler is born in Leipzig, 1898
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06/07 Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, 1969
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06/08 Robert Schumann is born in Zwickau, Germany, 1810
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06/08 Hans Leo Hassler dies, 1612
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06/08 Gordon Jacob dies, 1984
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06/09 Les Paul (Lester Polsfuss) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1915
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06/09 Carl Nielsen is born in Sortelung, Denmark, 1865
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06/10 Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910
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06/10 Judy Garland is born, 1922
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06/10 Ernest Chausson dies in Limary, Seine-et-Oise, France, 1899
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06/11 Richard Strauss is born in Munich, Germany, 1864
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06/12 John Ireland dies, 1962
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06/13 Carlos Chavez is born in Popotla, Mexico, 1899
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06/15 Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941
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06/15 Edvard Hagerup Grieg is born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
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06/15 John Philip Sousa's march "The Washington Post" premiered, 1889
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06/15 Robert Russell Bennett is born, 1894
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06/16 The Monterey Pop festival opens, 1967
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06/16 Maurice Durufle dies in Paris, France, 1986
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06/17 Igor Stravinsky is born in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), Russia, 1882
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06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 1942
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06/18 Richard Rogers is born in Long Island, New York, 1902
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06/20 Jacques Offenbach is born in Cologne, Germany, 1819
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06/21 Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948
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06/21 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov dies in Lyubensk, Russia, 1908
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06/21 Alan Hovhaness dies in Seattle, Washington, 2000
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06/22 Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 1948
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06/22 Darius Milhaud dies in Geneva, Switzerland, 1974
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06/23 Reinhold Gliere dies, 1956
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06/24 Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, 1944
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06/25 Alberto Ginastera dies in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983
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06/25 Georg Philipp Telemann dies in Hamburg, Germany, 1767
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06/25 Michael Joseph Jackson dies in Los Angeles, California, 2009
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06/27 Elvis Presley's last concert, 1977
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06/27 John Entwistle dies in Las Vegas, 2002
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07/01 Erik Satie dies in Paris, France, 1925
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07/02 Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969
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07/02 Christoph Willibald Gluck is born in Erasbach, Upper Palatinate,
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Bavaria, Germany, 1714
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07/03 Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971
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07/03 Louis Durey dies in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, 1979
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07/03 Leos Janacek is born in Hukvaldy, Moravia, 1854
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07/04 Astor Piazzolla dies, 1992
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07/05 Gordon Jacob is born, 1895
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07/07 Gustav Mahler is born in Kalischt, Bohemia, 1860
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07/06 The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965
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07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940
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07/07 Leo Sowerby dies in Port Clinton, Ohio, 1968
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07/08 Percy Grainger is born in Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 1882
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07/08 Hans Leo Hassler is born in Nuremberg, Germany, 1564
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07/09 Ottorino Respighi is born in Bologna, Italy, 1879
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07/09 Randall Thompson dies, 1984
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07/10 Carl Orff is born in Munich, Germany, 1895
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07/11 George Gershwin dies in Hollywood, California, 1937
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07/12 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979
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07/13 Arnold Schoenberg dies in Los Angeles, California, 1951
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07/14 Woodie Guthrie is born, 1912
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07/15 Carl Czerny dies, 1857
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07/15 Ernest Bloch dies, 1959
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07/16 Cream forms in the U.K., 1966
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07/16 Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981
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07/17 "Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilion, 1968
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07/20 Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947
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07/23 Georges Auric dies, 1983
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07/23 Domenico Scarlatti dies in Madrid, Spain, 1757
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07/24 Ernest Bloch is born, 1880
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07/25 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965
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07/25 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969
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07/26 Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943
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07/26 JJ Cale (John Weldon Cale) dies in La Jolla, California, 2013
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07/27 Enrique Granados is born in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, 1867
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07/28 Johann Sebastian Bach dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1750
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07/28 The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973
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07/28 Antonio Vivaldi dies in Vienna, Austria, 1741
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07/29 Robert Schumann dies in Endenich, Bonn, Germany, 1856
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07/31 Franz Liszt dies shortly before 11:30 in Bayreuth, Germany, 1886
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08/01 The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971
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08/02 Carlos Chavez dies in the Coyoacan suburb of Mexico City, 1978
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08/04 John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus",
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1966
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08/04 William Howard Schuman is born in the Bronx, New York, 1910
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08/05 Guillaume Dufay is born near Brussels, 1397 (date uncertain)
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08/09 Dmitri Shostakovich dies of lung cancer in Moscow, Russia, 1975
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08/10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
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08/10 Alexander Glazunov is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1865
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08/12 Giovanni Gabrieli dies due to a kidney stone, 1612
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08/12 Maurice Greene is born in London, 1696
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08/12 Leos Janacek dies in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1928
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08/13 Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951
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08/13 The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete
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performance of Wagner's "Ring Cycle", 1876
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08/13 John Ireland is born, 1879
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08/13 Jules Emile Frederic Massenet dies, 1912
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08/15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey, 1962
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08/15 The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965
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08/15 Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969
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08/15 Jacques Ibert is born, 1890
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08/16 Elvis Presley [allegedly] dies at Graceland, 1977
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08/17 Robert Russell Bennett dies, 1981
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08/18 Antonio Salieri is born in Legnago, Italy, 1750
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08/19 George Enescu is born in Leveni, Romania, 1881
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08/21 Joe Strummer (The Clash), born John Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, 1952
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08/22 Claude Debussy is born in Yvelines, France, 1862
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08/23 Keith Moon is born in London, England, 1946
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08/24 Paul Creston dies, 1985
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08/25 Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1918
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08/26 Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970
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08/26 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970
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08/26 Ralph Vaughan Williams dies, 1958
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08/27 Josquin Des Prez dies in Conde, 1521
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08/29 Michael Joseph Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, 1958
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09/01 Engelbert Humperdinck is born in Siegburg, Germany, 1854
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09/04 Edvard Grieg dies in Bergen, Norway, 1907
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09/04 Anton Bruckner is born in Ansfelden, Austria, 1824
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09/04 Darius Milhaud is born in Aix-en-Provence, France, 1892
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09/06 Hanns Eisler dies in East Berlin, 1962
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09/07 Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978
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09/07 Warren Zevon dies in Los Angeles, California, 2003
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09/08 Antonin Dvorak is born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841
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09/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno,
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California, 1945
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09/08 Richard Strauss dies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1949
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09/08 Carlo Gesualdo dies in Avellino in isolation, 1613
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09/08 Nicolas de Grigny is baptized, 1672
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09/11 Francois Couperin dies, 1733
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09/12 John-Philippe Rameau dies, 1764
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09/13 Arnold Schoenberg is born in Vienna, Austria, 1874
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09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814
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09/15 Anton Webern is shot dead by a drunk US soldier in Austria, 1945
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09/15 Horatio Parker is born in Auburndale, Massachusetts, 1863
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09/16 B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925
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09/16 Nadia Boulanger is born, 1887
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09/16 Hildegard von Bingen is born into family of nobles, 1098
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09/17 Hildegard von Bingen dies, 1179
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09/17 Franz Xaver Sussmayr dies, 1803
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09/18 Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) born in Fort Lee, Virginia, 1951
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09/19 Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981
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09/20 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973
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09/20 Jean Sibelius dies in Ainola, Finland, 1957
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09/20 Pablo de Sarasate dies in Biarritz, France, 1908
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09/21 Gustav Holst is born in Cheltenham, England, 1874
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09/22 Wagner's "Das Rheingold" premiers at the Munich Court Theater, 1869
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09/23 "Paul is dead" rumors sweep the country, 1969
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09/23 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949
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09/24 Vaclav Nelhybel is born, 1919
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09/25 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980
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09/25 Dmitri Shostakovich is born in St. Petersberg, Russia, 1906
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09/25 Jean Francaix dies, 1997
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09/25 John-Philippe Rameau is born in France, 1683
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09/26 Bela Bartok dies in New York City, 1945
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09/27 Engelbert Humperdinck dies, 1921
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09/26 George Gershwin is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1898
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09/30 Virgil Thomson dies, 1989
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10/01 Paul Dukas is born in Paris, France, 1865
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10/01 Roy Harris dies, 1979
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10/03 Carl Nielsen dies in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931
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10/04 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970
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10/05 Steve Miller is born in Dallas, Texas, 1943
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10/05 Jacques Offenbach dies in Paris, France, 1880
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10/05 Silvestre Revueltas dies in Mexico City, 1940
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10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
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10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940
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10/09 John Entwistle is born in London, England, 1944
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10/09 Camille Saint-Saens is born in Paris, 1835
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10/10 John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946
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10/10 Paul Creston is born, 1906
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10/10 Giuseppe Verdi is born in Le Roncole, near Busseto, Italy, 1813
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10/11 Anton Bruckner dies in Vienna, Austria, 1896
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10/12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966
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10/12 Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002
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10/12 Ralph Vaughan Williams is born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, 1872
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10/13 Paul Simon born, 1941
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10/14 Leonard Bernstein dies in New York City, 1990
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10/16 Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947
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10/17 "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967
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10/17 Frederic Chopin dies in Paris, France, 1849
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10/18 Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, 1926
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10/20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977
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10/20 Charles Edward Ives dies in New York City, 1954
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10/20 Max Bruch dies, 1920
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10/21 "Jesus Christ Super Star" debuted on Broadway, 1971
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10/21 Sir Malcolm Arnold is born, 1921
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10/22 Franz Liszt born in Doborjan, Hungary, 1811
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10/22 Pablo Casals dies in Puerto Rico, 1973
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10/22 Nadia Boulanger dies, 1979
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10/22 Louis Spohr dies in Frankfurt, Germany, 1859
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10/24 Luciano Berio is born, 1925
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10/24 Alessandro Scarlatti dies in Naples, 1725
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10/25 Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944
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10/25 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964
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10/25 Georges Bizet is born in Paris, France, 1838
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10/25 Johann Strauss II, "The Waltz King", is born in Vienna, 1825
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10/26 Domenico Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy, 1685
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10/27 Niccolo Paganini is born in Genoa, Italy, 1782
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10/27 Lou Reed dies, 2013
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10/28 Howard Hanson is born in Wahoo, Nebraska, 1896
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10/29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971
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10/30 Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939
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11/02 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968
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11/02 Keith Emerson is born, 1944
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11/03 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972
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11/04 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1847
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11/04 Gabriel Faure dies from pneumonia in Paris, France, 1924
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11/06 Ray Conniff born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, 1916
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11/06 John Philip Sousa, "The March King", is born, 1854
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11/06 Edgard Varese dies, 1965
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11/06 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1893
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11/07 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943
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11/07 Germaine Tailleferre dies in Paris, France, 1983
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11/08 Patti Page born, 1927
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11/09 The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967
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11/10 Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948
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11/10 Francois Couperin is born, 1668
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11/12 Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945
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11/12 Walter Piston dies in Belmont, Massachusetts, 1976
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11/12 Alexander Borodin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1833
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11/13 Gioacchino Rossini dies at his summer home in Passy, France, 1868
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11/14 Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1900
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11/15 Christoph Willibald Gluck dies in Vienna, Austria, 1787
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11/16 Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965
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11/17 Heitor Villa-Lobos dies, 1959
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11/18 Carl Maria von Weber is born in Eutin, Germany, 1786
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11/19 Franz Schubert dies in Vienna, Austria, 1828
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11/20 Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946
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11/20 Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947
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11/21 Henry Purcell dies, 1695
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11/22 Benjamin Britten is born, 1913
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11/22 Barnardo Pasquini dies in Rome, 1710
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11/23 Thomas Tallis dies, 1585
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11/24 Scott Joplin born near Linden, Texas, 1867
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11/25 "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976
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11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867
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11/25 Virgil Thomson is born in Missouri, 1896
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11/26 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968
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11/26 Paul Hindemith is born in Hanau, Germany, 1895
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11/27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942
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11/27 Guillaume Dufay dies in Cambrai, 1474
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11/27 Arthur Honegger dies near Paris, 1955
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11/28 Jean-Baptiste Lully is born in Florence, 1632
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11/29 Pau Casals born in Vendrell, 1876
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11/29 Erich Korngold dies in Hollywood, 1957
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11/29 Giacomo Puccini dies due to throat cancer in Brussels, Belgium, 1924
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11/30 George Harrison dies at 13:30 in L.A., 2001
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11/30 Wilhelm Furtwangler dies in Baden-Baden, Germany, 1954
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11/30 Nicolas de Grigny dies, 1703
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12/01 Jeremiah Clarke dies, 1707
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12/01 Maurice Greene dies, 1755
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12/02 Aaron Copland dies in Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow), New York, 1990
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12/03 Anton Webern is born in Vienna, Austria, 1883
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12/04 Frank Zappa dies in his Laurel Canyon home shortly before 18:00, 1993
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12/04 Lord Benjamin Britten dies, 1976
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12/05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria, 1791
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12/05 JJ Cale (John Weldon Cale) is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1938
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12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877
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12/06 The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969
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12/07 Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942
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12/07 Bernardo Pasquini is born in Tuscany, Italy, 1637
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12/08 Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
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12/08 John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
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12/08 Jean Sibelius is born in Hameenlinna, Finland, 1865
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12/09 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973
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12/10 Morton Gould is born in Richmond Hill, New York, 1913
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12/10 Oliver Messiaen is born in Avignon, France, 1908
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12/11 Hector Berlioz is born at La cote-Saint-Andre, France, 1803
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12/13 Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949
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12/14 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach dies, 1788
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12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877
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12/16 Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971
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12/16 Zoltan Kodaly is born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1882
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12/16 Camille Saint-Saens dies of pneumonia in Algiers, 1921
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12/17 Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonn, Germany, 1770
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12/18 Horatio Parker dies in Cedarhurst, New York, 1919
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12/21 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940
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12/21 Silvestre Revueltas born in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mexico, 1899
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12/22 Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 6 premier, under
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rehearsed, at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria, 1808
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12/22 Edgard Varese is born in France, 1883
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12/22 Jean-Joseph Mouret dies in Charenton, France, 1738
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12/22 Giacomo Puccini is born in Lucca, Italy, 1858
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12/23 First Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, Thespis, 1871
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12/23 Joe Strummer (born John Mellor) dies in Broomfield, England, 2002
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12/23 Edward MacDowell is born in New York, 1860
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12/24 Alban Berg dies in Vienna, Austria, 1935
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12/24 John Dunstable dies, 1453
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12/25 John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" composed, 1896
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12/25 Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 to honor the
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fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989, changing "freude" to "freedom"
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12/25 Orlando Gibbons is born in Oxford, England, 1583
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12/28 Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, 1946
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12/28 Paul Hindemith dies in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1963
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12/28 Maurice Ravel dies in Paris, France, 1937
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12/30 Dmitri Kabalevsky is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1904
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12/30 Richard Rogers dies, 1979
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12/31 Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969
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#endif /* !_calendar_music_ */
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