On This Day in Music: April 19

1952-04-19 Birth

Adny Shernoff

Adny Shernoff, rocker was born

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1942-04-19 Birth

Alan Price

Alan Price, England, rock keyboardist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun) was born

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1785-04-19 Birth

Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely

Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer was born

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1928-04-19 Birth

Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner, Paris, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him) was born

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1957-04-19 Birth

Belinda Lipscomb

Belinda Lipscomb, vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking) was born

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1944-04-19 Birth

Bernard Worrell

Bernard Worrell, US keyboardist (Funkadelic-Cosmic Slop) was born

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1957-04-19 Birth

Bo[as] Watson

Bo[as] Watson, vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking) was born

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1936-04-19 Birth

Csaba Szabo

Csaba Szabo, composer was born

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1967-04-19 Birth

Dar Williams

Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter was born

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1934-04-19 Birth

Dickie Goodman

Dickie Goodman, parody singer (Flying Saucer) was born

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1927-04-19 Birth

Don Barbour

Don Barbour, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen) was born

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1915-04-19 Birth

Dorian Le Gallienne

Dorian Le Gallienne, composer was born

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1863-04-19 Birth

Felix Blumenfeld

Felix Blumenfeld, composer was born

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1989-04-19 Birth

Fiona MacGillivray

Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars) was born

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1911-04-19 Birth

Francesco Maria Saraceni

Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer was born

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1798-04-19 Birth

Franz Joseph Glaser

Franz Joseph Glaser, composer was born

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1940-04-19 Birth

Genya Ravan

Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive) was born

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1700-04-19 Birth

Georg Abraham Schneider

Georg Abraham Schneider, composer was born

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1892-04-19 Birth

Germaine Tailleferre

Germaine Tailleferre, [Les Six], Pau-St-Maur France, composer was born

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1907-04-19 Birth

Gino Contilli

Gino Contilli, composer was born

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1771-04-19 Birth

Giuseppe Cartufo

Giuseppe Cartufo, composer was born

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1715-04-19 Birth

James Nares

James Nares, composer was born

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1934-04-19 Birth

Jan Helge Guttorm Bark

Jan Helge Guttorm Bark, composer was born

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1917-04-19 Birth

Johnny Hoes

Johnny Hoes, Dutch musician/producer (Wished I'd stayed with my Mom) was born

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1938-04-19 Birth

Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick, composer was born

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1970-04-19 Birth

Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel, Vera Cruz Mexico, spanish singer was born

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1944-04-19 Birth

Mark "Flo" Volman

Mark "Flo" Volman, rocker (Flo & Eddie, Turtles-Eleanor)/DJ (WKRK) was born

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1868-04-19 Birth

Max Von Schillings

Max Von Schillings, German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag) was born

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1943-04-19 Birth

Mike Kelly

Mike Kelly, rocker (Duprees) was born

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1947-04-19 Birth

Murray Perahia

Murray Perahia, NYC, pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988) was born

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1965-04-19 Birth

Natalie Dessay

Natalie Dessay, French soprano was born

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1605-04-19 Birth

Orazio Benevoli

Orazio Benevoli, composer was born

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1968-04-19 Birth

Pascal Kleiman

Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician was born

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1941-04-19 Birth

Roberto Carlos

Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer was born

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1953-04-19 Birth

Rod Morgenstein

Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger) was born

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1957-04-19 Birth

Rod Morgenstern

Rod Morgenstern, rocker (Winger) was born

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1936-04-19 Birth

Ruby Johnson

Ruby Johnson, US singer (I'll Run Your Hurt Away) was born

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1976-04-19 Birth

Ruud Jolie

Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation) was born

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1660-04-19 Birth

Sebastian Duron

Sebastian Duron, composer was born

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1858-04-19 Birth

Siegfried Ochs

Siegfried Ochs, composer was born

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1905-04-19 Birth

Tommy Benford

Tommy Benford, jazz drummer was born

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1966-04-19 Birth

Véronique Gens

Véronique Gens, French soprano was born

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1921-04-19 Birth

Will Ogdon

Will Ogdon, composer was born

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1888-04-19 Birth

William L Axt

William L Axt, composer was born

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1870-04-19 Death

Camille Marie Stamaty

Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59

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1986-04-19 Death

Dag Ivar Wiren

Dag Ivar Wiren, composer, dies at 80

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1997-04-19 Death

El Duce

El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)

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1981-04-19 Death

Ernst Levy

Ernst Levy, composer, dies at 85

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1770-04-19 Death

Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard

Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer, dies at 74

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1773-04-19 Death

Florian Johann Deller

Florian Johann Deller, composer, dies at 43

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1943-04-19 Death

Gustave Doret

Gustave Doret, composer, dies at 76

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1772-04-19 Death

Johann Peter Kellner

Johann Peter Kellner, composer, dies at 66

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1941-04-19 Death

Johanna Muller-Hermann

Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63

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2010-04-19 Death

Keith "Guru" Elam

Keith "Guru" Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)

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1994-04-19 Death

Larry Davis

Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57

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2000-04-19 Death

Louis Applebaum

Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)

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2005-04-19 Death

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)

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1799-04-19 Death

Pieter Hellendaal

Pieter Hellendaal, violinist/organist/composer (Glees), dies at 78

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1992-04-19 Death

Robert F Clayton

Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash

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1992-04-19 Death

Robert Paul Haynes

Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash

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1876-04-19 Death

Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65

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1629-04-19 Death

Sigismondo d'India

Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer

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1923-04-19 Death

Thomas Paine Westendorf

Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75

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1950-04-19 Death

Tyrwhitt-Wilson

Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66

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1870-04-19 Death

William Henry Havergal

William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77

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1645-04-19 Death

William Smith

William Smith, composer, dies at 42

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1932-04-19 Death

Wladyslaw Rzepko

Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77

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1919-04-19 Event

Andre Messager

Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)

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1774-04-19 Event

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Wilibald Gluck's opera "Iphigenia in Aulis" premieres in Paris

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1894-04-19 Event

Jules Massenet

Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in NYC

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2012-04-19 Event

Levon Helm

Levon Helm, American rock musician, dies from throat cancer at 71

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1945-04-19 Event

Richard Rodgers

Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway

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1877-04-19 Event

Robert Planquette

Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)

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1964-04-19 Event

Roger Sessions

Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma" premieres in West-Berlin

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1967-04-19 Event

The Beatles

Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)

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1981-04-19 Event

William Finn

William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos," premieres in NYC

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