01-17a: Blind Alfred Reed Complete Recordings 1927-1929 - Charlie Ventura 1945-1951 - Albinoni Oboe Concerti / Holliger | Elhorst 1979 - Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga String Quartets / Guilet Quartet

Not shown: Santino Garsi da Parma, Nicolo Rubini, Carl Baermann & Gottfried Rüdinger

1604 – Santino Garsi da Parma (Italian lutenist & composer)
1625 – Nicolo Rubini (Italian composer)
1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu (French composer, harpsichordist & organist)
1751 – Tomaso Albinoni (Italian composer, violinist & singer)
1788 – Alessio Prati (Italian composer, harpsichordist & singer)
1826 – Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga y Balzola (Spanish composer & violinist, "the Spanish Mozart")
1856 – Thomas Attwood Walmisley (English composer & organist, godson of Mozart's pupil Thomas Attwood)
1869 – Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky [Александр Даргомыжский] (Russian composer)
1890 – Salomon Sulzer [סלומון זולצר] (Austrian hazzan & composer)
1891 – Johannes Verhulst (Dutch composer, conductor & violinist)
1892 – Alexandre Levy (Brazilian composer, pianist & conductor)
1913 – Carl Baermann, Jr (German pianist, teacher & composer)
1942 – Frederick Jerome Work (American folksong collector & arranger)
1946 – Gottfried Rüdinger (German composer)
1956 – Blind Alfred Reed (American folk, country & old-time fiddler, singer & songwriter)
1969 – Grażyna Bacewicz (Polish composer & violinist)
1970 – Simon Kovar (Lithuanian-born American bassoonist)
1970 – Billy Stewart (American R&B & soul singer, pianist & drummer)
1992 – Charlie Ventura (American jazz tenor saxophonist & bandleader)




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