01-15a: Elton John Christmas in London 1974 - Jack Teagarden 1944-1947 - G.B. Sammartini : Complete Early Symphonies / Ferrari 1994

Not shown: Charles-Hubert Gervais & Johannes Herbst

Not shown: Viktor Patrik Vretblad, Francesco Maria Saraceni & Euphemia Giannini-Gregory

1744 – Charles-Hubert Gervais (French composer)
1755 – Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaja (Italian organist, harpsichordist, composer & organ builder)
1765 – Carlmann Kolb (German priest, organist & composer)
1775 – Giovanni Battista Sammartini (Italian composer, organist, choirmaster & teacher)
1788 – Gaetano Latilla (Italian opera composer & harpsichordist, uncle of Niccolò Piccinni)
1812 – Johannes Herbst (German composer, active also in the United States)
1816 – Dr. Henry Harington (English physician, composer, poet, mathematician & classical scholar)
1844 – Joseph [Giuseppe] Mazzinghi (Italian-born English composer, active in Australia)
1864 – Isaac Nathan (English-born Australian composer, musicologist & journalist)
1904 – Eduard Lassen (Danish-born Belgian composer & pianist, active also in Germany & Italy)
1907 – Karl August Franz Sales Freiherr von Perfall (German composer & opera house director)
1909 – Ernest Reyer (French opera composer & music critic)
1915 – Guillaume Couture (Canadian teacher, conductor, choirmaster, composer, organist, baritone & music critic)
1924 – Géza Zichy (Hungarian composer & world's first professional one-armed pianist)
1926 – Enrico Toselli (Italian pianist & composer)
1935 – Lucien Fugère (French baritone)
1953 – Viktor Patrik Vretblad (Swedish composer)
1961 – Francesco Maria Saraceni (Italian composer)
1964 – Jack Teagarden (American jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer & singer, "Father of Jazz Trombone")
1967 – Albert Szirmai (Hungarian operetta composer & pianist, active also in the United States)
1973 – Jef Alpaerts (Belgian pianist & conductor)
1974 – Karel Salmon [Karl Salomon] (German-born Israeli composer, conductor, pianist & baritone)
1979 – Euphemia Giannini-Gregory (American soprano & vocal coach, Curtis Institute of Music)
1987 – Ray Bolger (American actor, singer & dancer)
1987 – Dolores Hawkins (American R&B singer)
1989 – Günter Reich (German-born Israeli baritone)
1992 – Dee Murray (English rock bass guitarist & singer, Elton John, Spencer Davis Group)
1993 – Sammy Cahn (American pop songwriter, pianist & violinist)

Sorry, it's been more than a week, hasn't it? I'll try to post more often. And as my therapist was wont to say "I'll "try" means I "won't. " When was the last time I said "I'll try" and actually did something?"

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