11-06a: Tchaikovsky 6 Furtwängler 1938 - Busnois Missa O Crux Lignum / Orlando Consort 2005 - Schütz Geistliche Chormusik / Herreweghe 1987 - Чайко́вский Nutcracker Suite Stokowski 1934

1492 – Antoine Busnois (French composer)
1672 – Heinrich Schütz  (German composer)
1795 – Jiří Antonín Benda [Georg Anton Benda] (Czech violinist & composer)
1865 – Thérèse Wartel (French pianist, teacher, composer & music critic)
1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский] (Russian composer)
1897 – Edouard Deldevez (French violinist, conductor, composer & teacher)
1912 – Mykola Lysenko [Микола Лисенко] (Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor & ethnomusicologist)
1946 – Zygmunt Stojowski (Polish pianist & composer)

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