🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Alma Schindler Mahler was born #OTD in Vienna in 1879. She has been one of the most vilified figures of classical music. Her career was cut short by the sexism of her time and her marriage to Gustav Mahler. Highly talented, she left 17 beautiful lieder.
August 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Alma Schindler Mahler was born #OTD in Vienna in 1879. She has been one of the most vilified figures of classical music. Her career was cut short by the sexism of her time and her marriage to Gustav Mahler. Highly talented, she left 17 beautiful lieder.
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday #OTD in 1900, Ukrainian composer Alexander Mosolov was born. Known for his futurist compositions and innovative style, Mosolov's music captured the spirit of his time with bold rhythms and mechanical sounds.
💬 What are your favorite works by Mosolov?
💬 What are your favorite works by Mosolov?
August 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday #OTD in 1900, Ukrainian composer Alexander Mosolov was born. Known for his futurist compositions and innovative style, Mosolov's music captured the spirit of his time with bold rhythms and mechanical sounds.
💬 What are your favorite works by Mosolov?
💬 What are your favorite works by Mosolov?
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Alma Schindler Mahler was born #OTD in Vienna, in 1879. She captivates us with compositions rich in emotion and complexity. As her career was cut short by the sexism of her time and her marriage to Gustav Mahler, all we have left are 17 beautiful lieder.
August 31, 2024 at 3:13 PM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Alma Schindler Mahler was born #OTD in Vienna, in 1879. She captivates us with compositions rich in emotion and complexity. As her career was cut short by the sexism of her time and her marriage to Gustav Mahler, all we have left are 17 beautiful lieder.
🎶🐦 Olivier Messiaen - Oiseaux Exotiques & Chronochromie @Ensemble_inter - Pierre Boulez - Pierre-Laurent Aimart
#ComposerBirthday
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#ComposerBirthday
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Olivier Messiaen - Oiseaux Exotiques & Chronochromie (Pierre Boulez) | Opus 20 Modern Masterworks
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December 10, 2024 at 9:55 AM
🎶🐦 Olivier Messiaen - Oiseaux Exotiques & Chronochromie @Ensemble_inter - Pierre Boulez - Pierre-Laurent Aimart
#ComposerBirthday
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#ComposerBirthday
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🎶🎂 #ComposerBirthday Malcolm Arnold was born #OTD in 1921. His music dances between poignant lyricism and vibrant energy, capturing the essence of British wit.
💬 What are your favorite works by this masterful composer? ❤️
💬 What are your favorite works by this masterful composer? ❤️
October 21, 2024 at 7:00 AM
🎶🎂 #ComposerBirthday Malcolm Arnold was born #OTD in 1921. His music dances between poignant lyricism and vibrant energy, capturing the essence of British wit.
💬 What are your favorite works by this masterful composer? ❤️
💬 What are your favorite works by this masterful composer? ❤️
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Sir Edward Elgar was born #OTD. I hold dearly in my heart his Cello concerto, a deeply contemplative, sorrowful, and poignant work.
🎶 What are your favorite Elgar work?
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🎶 What are your favorite Elgar work?
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June 2, 2024 at 9:11 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Sir Edward Elgar was born #OTD. I hold dearly in my heart his Cello concerto, a deeply contemplative, sorrowful, and poignant work.
🎶 What are your favorite Elgar work?
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🎶 What are your favorite Elgar work?
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🎼 🎂 #ComposerBirthday Gustav Mahler was born #OTD in Kaliště. A genius conductor and composer, he wrote heartwrenching, powerful symphonies and song cycles, in which he confronted starkly contrasting melodies, emotions, and musical styles.
💬 What are your favorite Mahler works?
💬 What are your favorite Mahler works?
July 7, 2024 at 9:59 AM
🎼 🎂 #ComposerBirthday Gustav Mahler was born #OTD in Kaliště. A genius conductor and composer, he wrote heartwrenching, powerful symphonies and song cycles, in which he confronted starkly contrasting melodies, emotions, and musical styles.
💬 What are your favorite Mahler works?
💬 What are your favorite Mahler works?
#ComposerBirthday Beethoven: Piano Concerto in G major, op. 58 (1806)
Maurizio Pollini - Claudio Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
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Maurizio Pollini - Claudio Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
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Maurizio Pollini - Beethoven: Piano Concerto in G major, op. 58
YouTube video by Matteo Scalone 🎹🎶
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December 16, 2024 at 8:30 AM
#ComposerBirthday Beethoven: Piano Concerto in G major, op. 58 (1806)
Maurizio Pollini - Claudio Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=njXY...
Maurizio Pollini - Claudio Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=njXY...
#ComposerBirthday
Beethoven - String quartet Op. 131 - Julliard Quartet
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Beethoven - String quartet Op. 131 - Julliard Quartet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B015...
Beethoven - String quartet Op. 131 - Julliard Quartet
YouTube video by Simone Di Soccio
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December 16, 2024 at 10:50 AM
#ComposerBirthday
Beethoven - String quartet Op. 131 - Julliard Quartet
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Beethoven - String quartet Op. 131 - Julliard Quartet
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🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Felix Blumenfeld was born #OTD in 1863. He was a virtuoso pianist, renowned conductor, and revered teacher, counting among his students Vladimir Horowitz and Heinrich Neuhaus. Blumenfeld composed beautiful Romantic piano music. 🎹
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSZ...
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April 18, 2024 at 8:28 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Felix Blumenfeld was born #OTD in 1863. He was a virtuoso pianist, renowned conductor, and revered teacher, counting among his students Vladimir Horowitz and Heinrich Neuhaus. Blumenfeld composed beautiful Romantic piano music. 🎹
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSZ...
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSZ...
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Lili Boulanger was born #OTD. She was a music prodigy who composed soulful and powerful choral works and songs. Despite her tragically short life, she left behind a legacy of beautiful, innovative music.
💬 What are your favorite works by Lili Boulanger?
💬 What are your favorite works by Lili Boulanger?
August 21, 2024 at 6:28 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Lili Boulanger was born #OTD. She was a music prodigy who composed soulful and powerful choral works and songs. Despite her tragically short life, she left behind a legacy of beautiful, innovative music.
💬 What are your favorite works by Lili Boulanger?
💬 What are your favorite works by Lili Boulanger?
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Florence Price was born #OTD. Her music blends the techniques she learnt from studying the great masters of the past with a deeply American lyricism rooted in spirituals and jazz.
💿 Here are my favorite recordings
💬 What are yours?
💿 Here are my favorite recordings
💬 What are yours?
April 9, 2024 at 7:27 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Florence Price was born #OTD. Her music blends the techniques she learnt from studying the great masters of the past with a deeply American lyricism rooted in spirituals and jazz.
💿 Here are my favorite recordings
💬 What are yours?
💿 Here are my favorite recordings
💬 What are yours?
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Dmitri Shostakovich was born #OTD in 1906. His music is a powerful statement of resilience and resistance against oppression and a testimony of the sufferings of ordinary people under Soviet tyranny.
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?
September 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Dmitri Shostakovich was born #OTD in 1906. His music is a powerful statement of resilience and resistance against oppression and a testimony of the sufferings of ordinary people under Soviet tyranny.
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Composer, conductor, author, and Suffragette Dame Ethel Smyth was born #OTD. She fought Victorian societal norms and was a prolific composer of lieder & songs, chamber pieces, orchestral and choral works, and operas.
💿 Here are some of my favorite works
💿 Here are some of my favorite works
April 22, 2024 at 11:37 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Composer, conductor, author, and Suffragette Dame Ethel Smyth was born #OTD. She fought Victorian societal norms and was a prolific composer of lieder & songs, chamber pieces, orchestral and choral works, and operas.
💿 Here are some of my favorite works
💿 Here are some of my favorite works
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Cécile Chaminade was born #OTD in 1857. Bizet called her "My Little Mozart" when she was a child. She wrote beautiful Romantic music, like the beloved Concertino, that deserves to be more widely performed.
💬 What are your favorite Chaminade works?
💬 What are your favorite Chaminade works?
August 8, 2024 at 6:28 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Cécile Chaminade was born #OTD in 1857. Bizet called her "My Little Mozart" when she was a child. She wrote beautiful Romantic music, like the beloved Concertino, that deserves to be more widely performed.
💬 What are your favorite Chaminade works?
💬 What are your favorite Chaminade works?
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Kurt Weill was born #OTD. Part of the German avant-guarde in the 1920s, he then had to flee Nazi Germany. He spent the 2d half of his career in the US, composing musicals.
💿 Here are some of my favorite works and recordings
💬 What are yours?
💿 Here are some of my favorite works and recordings
💬 What are yours?
March 2, 2024 at 12:58 PM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Kurt Weill was born #OTD. Part of the German avant-guarde in the 1920s, he then had to flee Nazi Germany. He spent the 2d half of his career in the US, composing musicals.
💿 Here are some of my favorite works and recordings
💬 What are yours?
💿 Here are some of my favorite works and recordings
💬 What are yours?
🎂🎶 #ComposerBirthday French composer Olivier Messaien was born #OTD in 1908. His music a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, rhythmic complexity, and harmonic innovation.
💬 What are you favorite works by Messiaen?
💬 What are you favorite works by Messiaen?
December 10, 2024 at 8:55 AM
🎂🎶 #ComposerBirthday French composer Olivier Messaien was born #OTD in 1908. His music a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, rhythmic complexity, and harmonic innovation.
💬 What are you favorite works by Messiaen?
💬 What are you favorite works by Messiaen?
🎂🎶 #ComposerBirthday Anton Bruckner was born #OTD 200 years ago. Best-known for his symphonies, his style is characterized by grandeur, complexity, & intricate harmonic language, influenced by Palestrina, Bach, the 1st Viennese School & Wagner.
💬 What are your favorite works?
💬 What are your favorite works?
September 4, 2024 at 8:46 AM
🎂🎶 #ComposerBirthday Anton Bruckner was born #OTD 200 years ago. Best-known for his symphonies, his style is characterized by grandeur, complexity, & intricate harmonic language, influenced by Palestrina, Bach, the 1st Viennese School & Wagner.
💬 What are your favorite works?
💬 What are your favorite works?
#ComposerBirthday 🎂 Michael Tippett - Symphony No. 2 (1956-57) - @londonsymphony conducted by Sir Colin Davis. 🎻
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Michael Tippett : Symphony No. 2 (1956-57)
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January 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#ComposerBirthday 🎂 Michael Tippett - Symphony No. 2 (1956-57) - @londonsymphony conducted by Sir Colin Davis. 🎻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuLa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuLa...
#ComposerBirthday Giacomo Puccini was born #OTD in 1858. Best known for his gorgeous operas, his music combines Italian bel canto with verismo, uses leitmotifs, and adds local color with exotic elements.
💬 What are your favorite works by him?
💬 What are your favorite works by him?
December 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
#ComposerBirthday Giacomo Puccini was born #OTD in 1858. Best known for his gorgeous operas, his music combines Italian bel canto with verismo, uses leitmotifs, and adds local color with exotic elements.
💬 What are your favorite works by him?
💬 What are your favorite works by him?
🎂🎼 #ComposerBirthday Celebrating the genius of Witold Lutosławski, born #OTD in 1913! A master of orchestral color and form, his music blends folk elements with avant-garde innovations. Known for aleatory techniques, his works are a beautiful fusion of tradition and modernity.
January 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
🎂🎼 #ComposerBirthday Celebrating the genius of Witold Lutosławski, born #OTD in 1913! A master of orchestral color and form, his music blends folk elements with avant-garde innovations. Known for aleatory techniques, his works are a beautiful fusion of tradition and modernity.
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Margaret Bonds was born #OTD in 1913. She composed beautiful melodies and choral music on poems written by African American poets, including her friend Langston Hughes
🎼Here are my favorite records of her music
💬 What are yours?
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🎼Here are my favorite records of her music
💬 What are yours?
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March 3, 2024 at 5:30 PM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Margaret Bonds was born #OTD in 1913. She composed beautiful melodies and choral music on poems written by African American poets, including her friend Langston Hughes
🎼Here are my favorite records of her music
💬 What are yours?
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🎼Here are my favorite records of her music
💬 What are yours?
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🎼 Alexander Mosolov: Concerto for piano and orchestra No.1 (1927)
🎹 Steffen Schleiermacher, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke
#ComposerBirthday #Mosolov
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🎹 Steffen Schleiermacher, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke
#ComposerBirthday #Mosolov
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Alexander Mosolov: Concerto for piano and orchestra No.1 (1927)
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August 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🎼 Alexander Mosolov: Concerto for piano and orchestra No.1 (1927)
🎹 Steffen Schleiermacher, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke
#ComposerBirthday #Mosolov
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🎹 Steffen Schleiermacher, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke
#ComposerBirthday #Mosolov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ms...
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Dmitri Shostakovich was born #OTD in 1906. His music is a powerful statement of resilience and resistance against oppression and a testimony of the sufferings of ordinary people under Soviet tyranny.
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?
September 25, 2024 at 7:09 AM
🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Dmitri Shostakovich was born #OTD in 1906. His music is a powerful statement of resilience and resistance against oppression and a testimony of the sufferings of ordinary people under Soviet tyranny.
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?
#ComposerBirthday American composer Roger Sessions was born #OTD in 1896.
Starting as a neoclassicist, Sessions later evolved towards modernism. His friendship with Schoenberg led him to twelve-tone serialism. Yet he adopted a free approach to serialism to shape his own personnal musical voice.
Starting as a neoclassicist, Sessions later evolved towards modernism. His friendship with Schoenberg led him to twelve-tone serialism. Yet he adopted a free approach to serialism to shape his own personnal musical voice.
December 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#ComposerBirthday American composer Roger Sessions was born #OTD in 1896.
Starting as a neoclassicist, Sessions later evolved towards modernism. His friendship with Schoenberg led him to twelve-tone serialism. Yet he adopted a free approach to serialism to shape his own personnal musical voice.
Starting as a neoclassicist, Sessions later evolved towards modernism. His friendship with Schoenberg led him to twelve-tone serialism. Yet he adopted a free approach to serialism to shape his own personnal musical voice.