Classical musicians born in the YEAR OF THE MONKEY!

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2016 : THE YEAR OF THE FIRE MONKEY


On February 8, we will be entering the Lunar New Year, and in China the Year of
the Monkey will be celebrated.

As a refresher to how the various "animal years" were initiated: the legend of
the god Buddha relates that, when he was to leave the earth, he invited all the
animals for a festivity. But only 12 animals showed up: the rat came initially,
followed by the ox, then the tiger, then the rabbit....so forth on down to the
dog and the pig, resulting in Buddha naming a year after each animal.


According to the Chinese astrologers (a much more reputable source, IMO, than
conventional Greek astrology), people born in the Monkey year are intelligent, inventive, entertaining, optimistic, and wise. But to these pluses must be added the minuses: Monkeys are also secretive, conniving, arrogant, restless, and indifferent.

People born in the Year Of The Monkey are most compatible with those from the
Rat and Dragon years, and should
avoid those born in the Tiger, Pig, Snake, and Rabbit years.



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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY

Color Code:
Red = Metal Monkey
Blue = Water Monkey
Brown = Wood Monkey
Orange = Fire Monkey
Green = Earth Monkey


1560
Carlo Gesualdo
Camillo Lambardi
1572
Thomas Tomkins
1632
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Giovanni Battista Vitali
1644
Heinrich Biber
1668
François Couperin
John Eccles
1692
Giuseppe Tartini
1728
Johann Adam Hiller
1740
Giovanni Paisiello
1752
Leopold Kozeluch
1776
Ignaz Schuppanzigh
Ignaz von Seyfried
1788
Camille Pleyel
Johan Theodor
1800
Salvatore Patti
Adolf Lindblad (b. 2/1/1801)
1812
Louis Antoine Julienne
1824
Anton Bruckner
Bedřich Smetana
Carl Reinecke
1836
Léo Delibes
Mily Balakirev
Francesco Pandolfini
1848
Vladimir de Pachmann
Lilli Lehman
Charles Parry
Luigi Mancinelli
Robert Planquette
1860
Gustav Mahler
Isaac Albeniz
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Edward MacDowell
Hugo Wolf
Richard Burmeister
Emil von Reznicek
Gustave Charpentier
Charles Martin Loeffler (b. 1/30/1861)
Cleofonte Companini
1872
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Frederick Stock
Hugo Alfven
Alfred Hertz
Georg Schnéevoigt
Ilona Eibenschütz
Sergei Vasilenko
Rubin Goldmark
Arthur Farwell
Julius Fučík
Josef Stransky
1884
Alban Berg (b. 2/9/1885)
Wilhelm Backhaus
John McCormack
Alma Gluck
Leonid Kreutzer
Ture Rangström
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Willem van Hoogstraten
Basil Cameron
Boris Hambourg (b. 1/8/1885)
Edwin Hughes
Louis Gruenberg
Raoul von Koszalsky
Ruth Deyo
1896
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Roger Sessions
Virgil Thomson
Rosa Ponselle (b. 1/22/1897)
Howard Hanson
Oswald Kabasta
Lawrence Tibbett
Alexander Brailowsky
Vladimir Fedoseyev
Simon Barere
Leon Theremin
Wilfred Pelletier
Charles Panzera
Madeleine Gray
Tauno Hannikainen
Johan Hye-Knudsen
Erwin Bodky
Karel Šejna
Rudolf Kolisch
1908
Herbert von Karajan
David Oistrakh
Olivier Messiaen
Elliott Carter
Alexander Schneider
Karel Ančerl
Leroy Anderson
Beveridge Webster
Harry Ellis Dickson
Howard Ferguson
Victor Desarzens
Josef Keilberth
Jussi Jalas
Sylvia Marlowe
Victor Babin
George Singer
Mehli Mehta
Edith Coates
Peter Anders
Helmut Koch
Lars-Erik Larssen
William Wordsworth
Owen Brannigan
Roberto Gerhard
1920
Isaac Stern
Guido Cantelli
Abbey Simon (b. 1/8/1921)
Václav Neumann
Bruno Maderna
Hepzibah Menuhin
Mario Lanza (b. 1/31/1921)
David Lloyd
Leo Smit (b. 1/12/1921)
Orazio Frugoni (b.1/28/1921)
Dave Brubeck
Günter Kehr
William Masselos
Robert Turner
1932
Glenn Gould
John Williams
Anna Moffo
Victor Fedoseyev
Yuri Ahronovich
Lalo Schifrin
Alfons Kontarsky
Suzanne Lautenbacher
Armin Jordan
Michel Legrand
Rodion Schchedrin
Adam Harasiewicz
Henry Lewis
Per Nørgård
Hugh Wood
Martin Mailman
Eugene Rousseau
Claudette Sorel
Akira Miyoshi (b. 1/10/1933)
1944
Michael Tilson Thomas
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Leonard Slatkin
John Tavener
Sir Andrew Davis
Lynn Harrell
Pepe Romero
Uri Segal
Vladimir Spivakov
Kyung-Wha Chung
Eugenia Zukerman
William Albright
Leif Segerstam
Maria João Pires
Aki Takahashi
Joshua Rifkin
Peter Henrik Nordgren
1956
Jeffrey Kahane
Nigel Kennedy
Christopher O'Riley
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Sylvia McNair
Krystian Zimerman
1968
Rachel Podger
Boris Berezowsky (b. 1/4/1969)
Jian Wang
Andrew Clark
François-Frédéric Guy (b. 1/23/1969)
1980
Sarah Chang
David Garrett
Dobrinka Tabakova