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September 15

1858 Jenö Hubay – Hungarian composer, violinist, and music teacher (d.1937); performed chamber music on more than one occasion with Brahms, including the premiere of Brahms's Piano Trio No. 3; composed four violin concertos and a very large number of encore pieces.

1863 Horatio Parker – American composer, organist and teacher (d.1919); became chairman of the Yale music department in 1894, where he taught the young Charles Ives, among many others.

1890 Frank Martin – Swiss composer (d.1974); the Petite Symphonie Concertante of 1945 made his international reputation and is the best known of his orchestral works.

1913 Henry Brant – Canadian-born American composer (d.2008); expert orchestrator, and many works featured ‘spatializ`ation’ techniques; composed, orchestrated, and conducted for radio, film, ballet, and jazz groups.

1933 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos – Spanish composer and conductor (d.2014); recorded the complete works of Manuel de Falla, as well a classic series of complete zarzuela recordings.

1946 first performance of Charles Ives’s String Quartet No. 2, at the Yaddo Music Festival in Saratoga, N.Y. by the Walden Quartet; the work had been completed in 1913.