03.05.1729, Most - ?22.01.1774, ?21.01.1774, ?20.01.1774, Vienna
Florian Leopold Gassmann (3 May 1729 – 21 January 1774) was a German-speaking Bohemian opera composer of the transitional period between the baroque and classical eras. He was one of the principal composers of dramma giocoso immediately before Mozart. He was one of Antonio Salieri's teachers.
03.05.1784, Paris - 19.07.1832, Paris
Henri François Berton called Berton fils (3 May 1784, in Paris – 19 July 1832, in Paris) was an early 19th-century French composer. Pierre Montan Berton was his grandfather and Henri-Montan Berton his father. He died of cholera.
03.05.1814, Rauna Parish - 22.10.1881, Walk
Jānis Cimze (3 July/21 June 1814 — 22 October/10 October 1881) was a Latvian pedagogue, collector and harmoniser of folk songs, organist, founder of Latvian choral music and initiator of professional Latvian music. He is buried at the Lugaži Cemetery.
03.05.1886, Rouen - 30.05.1971, Meudon
Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl dypʁe]; 3 May 1886 – 30 May 1971) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.
03.05.1902, Akashichō - 18.09.1974, Akashichō
Hideo Saito (齋藤 秀雄, Saitō Hideo, May 23, 1902 – September 18, 1974) was a Japanese cellist, conductor, and music lecturer.
03.05.1908, Pittsburgh - ?13.02.1994, ?01.01.1994,
Robert Bloom (May 3, 1908 – February 13, 1994) was an oboist with an orchestral and solo career, a composer and arranger contributing to the oboe repertory, and a teacher of several successful oboists. Bloom is considered seminal in the development of an American school of oboe playing. At the Curtis Institute of Music Bloom was a pupil of Marcel Tabuteau for three years. In the 1930s he played English horn in the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and first oboe in the Rochester Philharmonic under José Iturbi. He was the principal oboe in Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1943. Bloom plays on recordings by the Columbia Symphony and the RCA Symphony. In 1946 Bloom was one of the founding members of the Bach Aria Group, with which he played until 1980. Recordings by the Bach Aria Group featuring Bloom started appearing from the late 1940s. Bloom transcribed and elaborated 18th-century masterworks for the oboe. His own compositions include a Sonatina for oboe and piano. Bloom was a professor at Yale and Juilliard. His pupils include William Bennett, Bill Douglas, Tim Hurtz, Richard Killmer, Bert Lucarelli, Ray Still, Allan Vogel, and Richard Woodhams, In the spring of 1988, friends, colleagues, and former pupils gathered in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York for an 80th-birthday tribute. A few years after Bloom's death in 1994, his widow, Sara Lambert Bloom, published The Robert Bloom Collection, scores and parts to his 21 editions of 18th-century masterworks, 10 transcriptions, and 10 compositions. The Art of Robert Bloom, a 7-CD set of live performances of concertos, chamber music, and Bach arias performed by Bloom over his 60-year career was released in 2001 on Boston Records label. Bloom's daughter, Kath Bloom is a singer-songwriter and music therapist based in Litchfield, CT.
03.05.1915, Cúa - ?20.03.1984, ?16.03.1984, Caracas
Evencio Castellanos Yumar (May 3, 1915 – March 16, 1984), was a Venezuelan pianist and classical musician. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and director of choirs and orchestra.
03.05.1917, - 29.03.1999,
James Penberthy AM (3 May 1917 – 29 March 1999) was an Australian composer and journalist.
03.05.1937, Kavajë - 01.03.2021, Tirana
Agim Krajka (1 May 1937 – 1 March 2021) was an Albanian composer. He was known as one of the greatest masters of music at that time.
03.05.1939, Warwickshire - 04.12.2012, Lewes
Jonathan Dean Harvey (3 May 1939 – 4 December 2012) was a British composer. He held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the United States.
03.05.1953, Southampton - ,
Stephen Warbeck (born 21 October 1953) is an English composer, best known for his film and television scores. Warbeck was born in Southampton, Hampshire. He first became known for the music for Prime Suspect and won an Oscar for his score for Shakespeare in Love. He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play in 1994. Warbeck attended Bristol University, and began his career as an actor. He plays the accordion and co-leads the group The hKippers (the 'h' is silent) with Paul Bradley. In 2018, he directed his first feature film "The Thin Man" which has since been retitled The Man In The Hat in France starring Ciarán Hinds and Stephen Dillane.