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Francesco Corselli, sometimes given in the French spelling François Courcelle, (Piacenza, 19 April 1705 - 3 April 1778 in Madrid) was an Italian composer of the pre-classical period born to French parents in Italy.

Franz Joseph Glæser (19 April 1798 - 29 August 1861), also spelt as Glaeser and Gläser, was an Austrian-Danish composer. Born in Obergeorgenthal, Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, Glaeser’s work as a composer was mostly done before he migrated to Denmark, to spend much of his later life in Copenhagen. He gained his first position as a Kapellmeister at the Leopoldstadt Theater in 1817 and his last at Copenhagen in 1842, retaining the position until his death in 1861.

Aniceto de los Dolores Luis Gonzaga Ortega del Villar (17 April 1825 – 17 November 1875) was a Mexican physician, composer, and pianist. Although he had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon, he is also remembered today for his 1871 opera Guatimotzin, one of the earliest Mexican operas to use a native subject. He is related to the Colonial Administrator and Archbishop of Nueva Espana, who became the Viceroy of Nueva Espana twice over. He became Conde del Peñasco by way of marriage, and was a Conde del Oploca by way of birth, amongst other titles.

Siegfried Ochs (19 April 1858 – 6 February 1929) was a German choral conductor and composer.

Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schillings' opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was performed at the Metropolitan Opera. The composer married Barbara Kemp, the soprano who sang the title role. Before Mona Lisa, Schillings had already written three operas: Ingwelde (1894), Der Pfeifertag (1899) and Der Moloch (1906).

Nobu Kōda 幸田延 (1870–1946) was a Japanese composer, violinist, and music teacher. She was one of the first Japanese women to study music overseas. She studied at the New England Conservatory. She later studied in Europe. She was the sister of Kōda Rohan.

Germaine Tailleferre (French: [ʒɛʁmɛn tɑjfɛʁ]; born Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse; 19 April 1892 – 7 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.

Afrasiyab Badal bey oghlu Badalbeyli (Azerbaijani: Əfrasiyab Bədəl bəy oğlu Bədəlbəyli) (19 April 1907, in Baku – 6 January 1976, in Baku) was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer, with noble Iranian origins (he was the descendant of Bahman Mirza and Abbas Mirza," conductor and music critic, author of the music and libretto of Giz Galasi (The Maiden Tower), the first Azerbaijani ballet and the first ballet in the Middle East.

Masaru Kawasaki (川崎 優, Kawasaki Masaru, 19 April 1924 – 29 November 2018) was a Japanese conductor and composer. He was known for writing original compositions specifically for concert band, as did Toshio Akiyama and Ichitaro Tsujii, but has also written many works for the flute.

Myron Fink (born April 19, 1932) is a Chicago-born composer of opera and other pieces for voice, piano, and chamber ensemble. His compositions have been performed around the world. The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music holds the Myron Fink Music Collection, 1961–2008.

Svyatoslav Lunyov (born April 19, 1964, in Kyiv), is a Ukrainian composer. He is the author of symphonic, chamber, choral, piano and electroacoustic music. Among his works are operas ("Moscow - Petushki", "Bad Tempered Songs") and music for movies. In 2017, he received the Bronze Cannes Lion, for Witness. He is member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. He graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory where he studied with Lev Kolodub. Since 2000, he has been a lecturer at the Kyiv Conservatory. The 2020 Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, featured his work New Russian Dances. One of the most representative compositions is Panta Rhei– a utopia for a big symphony orchestra. This piece – is a hymn to elements of live and non-living nature. In addition to that, it is a look at the idea of the emergence and evolution of life through the idea of detuning an unison. Panta Rhei consists of three parts and lasts 53 minutes. For his entire career, Lunyov encompassed all genres of serious music, including chamber, choral, vocal, piano, electroacoustic, and film music. In the last years, Lunyov has explored writing electroacoustic, symphonic, and ensemble works. Also, he works on stage genres and music for films. As a composer and sound artist, he is interested in new sounding and such ways of music lasting and composition forms, where movement and static are combined in a new way. His works are performed not only in concert halls but in art galleries, open-air happenings, and other informal stages. In 2017 his musical open-air performance Witness, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, received the Bronze Cannes Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. During the full-scale war that began on February 24, 2022, Svyatoslav Lunyov created many new pieces. Among them are electronic POST, and also vocal cycles on Ukrainian poems, and piano cycles as well. And a new large-scale work is about to be finished in the near future. Among the performers of his compositions: the National Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), the Camerata Kyiv Chamber Orchestra (Ukraine), “Kyiv” Municipal Choir (Ukraine), the National Culture University Choir (Ukraine), “Ricochet” Contemporary Music Ensemble (Ukraine), the vocal ensemble “Alter Ratio” (Ukraine), “MusikFabrik” Contemporary Music Ensemble (Germany), “Silk Road” Duet (Germany), “Trinity Wall Street Choir” (the USA), “Sinfonietta Sankt Gallen” (Switzerland), and many others. Conductors: Volodymyr Sirenko, Vyacheslav Blinov, Viktor Ploskina, Valery Matyuchin, Volodymyr Runchak (Ukraine), Fedir Gluschenko (Russia), Veronique Laqroix (Canada), Theodore Kuchar (USA), Herman Engels (Belgium), Mikheil Menabde (Georgia/Ukraine), Olga Prykhodko (Ukraine).