On This Day

On this day, April 3rd

Born:

• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer, in 1895.
• Daniel Catán, Mexican composer, in 1949.
• Mario Lavista, Mexican composer, in 1943.
• Tibor Andrašovan, Slovakian composer, in 1917.
• Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer, in 1918.
• George Barati, Hungarian-American composer, in 1913.
• Elisabetta Brusa, Italian-English composer, in 1954.
• Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer, in 1895.
• Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian composer, in 1889.
• Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer, in 1874.
• Johann Caspar Kerll, German composer, in 1627.
• Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, French composer, in 1751.
• Antimo Liberati, Italian composer, in 1617.
• Giovanni Battista Massarengo, Italian composer, in 1569.
• Joseph François Salomon, French composer, in 1649.
• Tsuyoshi Sekito, Japanese composer, in 1963.
• Ferenc Verseghy, Hungarian composer, in 1757.
• Satoshi Yagisawa, Japanese composer, in 1975.
• Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer, in 1947.

Died:

• Franz Berwald, Swedish composer, in 1868.
• Johannes Brahms, German composer, in 1897.
• Ferde Grofé, American composer, in 1972.
• Lionel Bart, English composer, in 1999.
• Homer Newton Bartlett, American composer, in 1920.
• Paul Gilson, Belgian composer, in 1942.
• Basil Harwood, English composer, in 1949.
• Maurice Johnstone, English composer, in 1976.
• Nonnosus Madlseder, German composer, in 1797.
• Ray Noble, English composer, in 1978.
• Dušan Radić, Serbian composer, in 2010.
• Robert Ward, American composer, in 2013.
• Kurt Weill, German composer, in 1950.